Ging chaat goo si juk jaap

Plot synopsis:
Inspector Chan Ka-kui has been demoted to highway patrol as the result of his handling of his previous case, which involved the violent arrest of crime lord Chu Tao and heavy property damage. The new duty pleases his girlfriend, May, who is glad that her boyfriend is no longer taking difficult cases and has more time to see her.
However, the happy mood changes when Ka-Kui is greeted by Chu Tao and his bespectacled right-hand man John Ko. It seems Chu Tao is terminally ill with only three months left to live, so he has been released from prison, and while he is still alive he vows to make life difficult for Ka-Kui. John Ko and some henchmen show up at Ka-Kui's apartment and intimidate him, baiting the policeman to attack. Later, May and her mother are beaten by John Ko and his men. Ka-Kui can no longer hold back, and he lashes out against John Ko and his men at a restaurant.
Ashamed of his behavior, Ka-Kui resigns from the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. He plans to take a trip to Bali with May, but while he is at a travel agency in a shopping mall, some police officers see him and report that the mall is under a bomb threat. Unable to resist the urge to get involved in police work, Ka-Kui tells the officers to sound the fire alarm and have the mall cleared, and agrees to take responsibility for the decision. A bomb does indeed explode, and the entire mall is leveled by the blast.
Ka-Kui is praised for his efforts, and he is reinstated and assigned to solve the case of the bombing. Ka-Kui plants a covert listening device in the mall property company's office to try to learn more about the bombers. This leads to a suspect who is a deaf-mute and is a fierce martial artist and explosives expert.
The bombing gang, aware that the police are on to them, plan a simultaneous bombing of the property company and the police headquarters. They double their ransom demand to $20 million and kidnap May, luring Ka-Kui into a trap in which he is strapped with an explosive vest and forced to pick up the extortion money from the property company. However, after picking up the money, Ka-Kui tells the gang that they are being followed and split up. Ka-kui, still holding the ransom, is able to drive his car into a tunnel so that the bomb he is wearing cannot be activated and he strips it off. He then goes to rescue May, who is being held in a warehouse full of fireworks. Ka-Kui again faces the deaf-mute man, who throws small firebombs at him. Ka-Kui then gains the upper hand and brutally retaliates against the mute man, finally throwing him off a third story catwalk onto a pile of plastic drums below. Ka-Kui then rescues May and departs the warehouse, just as it explodes in a huge ball of fire.

Tags: violence

Review:
"Police Story 2" is a movie that mostly shows Jackie Chan's serious side.
The action sequences are superb, and that deaf-mute guy with the incredible martial-arts skills is one of the most memorable villains Jackie ever had to face (literally: I had seen the film only once before in 1997 and I still remembered him clearly).
Jackie Chan in flight is such a joy to behold (especially during the end credits showing bloopers and the injuries from the mind-blowing stunts), as this particular series (five films so far and a spin off from the third feature) along with "Project A" and its sequel would come down as probably his most recognizable home-grown efforts to western audiences.
As for "Police Story Part 2", it continues on from the excellent original to simply match the quality and go on to be a little larger in scale and excitingly explosive literally.The Hong Kong police force doesn't like individual heroes and that's what they see Ka Kui as.
But it doesn't last long when he's conned back onto the force to help combat against a string of bomb threats involving a gang holding ransom a big corporation.Jackie Chan flexibly directs astonishingly dangerous stunts-galore and inventively rapid, if elaborate martial arts choreography in what is an old-hat, but very busy and comic book pulp cops and robbers chase formula.
Chan Ka-Kui or Kevin Chan(aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly apprehending and arresting a big drug- lord in ¨Police story I ¨ .
Then Chan looks for vengeance against the ominous villains at a cat and mouse game.This exciting movie is packed with intrigue, thrills , unstopped action , suspense , overwhelming stunt-work and lots of violence but with humor .
Jackie Chan is top notch as one army man fighting a group of heinous criminals and as always he makes his own stunts like is showed on the final fake-shots .
Spotlights movie include a stirring car pursuit , Jackie jumping over a bus ,impressive and interminable fights with Chan dangling and downing , a mall blow-up and a breathtaking final explosion and other extraordinary action sequences in James Bond style .
Of course , his big hits were ¨The Police story¨ series that won the Golden Horse Award, a Chinese version of the Oscar , the first was titled ¨Police story(1985)¨ directed by the same Chan , it was a perfect action film for enthusiastic of the genre ; the following was ¨Police story 2(1988)¨also pretty violent and with abundant humor touches.
Its just not as good as the original, but how many sequels are?The plot is simple, Mr.Ku is out for revenge and a series of bombs have been set off in Hong Kong, so its up to Jackie and his regulars to investigate.
For those expecting an all-out stunt-fest like "Police Story," this first sequel in the series will be a disappointment.
Although more character/story-driven (which is a plus for Chan and martial arts movies in general), those who came to see stunts and hard-hitting, slap-happy hand-to-hand combat action will be the ones feeling left-out or cheated.
However, because Ka Kui is a Hong Kong super-cop in need of some action, the aforementioned trouble comes in the form of the gangster he locked up in the first film, in addition to more bloodthirsty criminals and a deaf, gonzo, high-kicking toymaker (Benny Lai) who has an aptitude for rigging RC vehicles with things that go BOOM.
Like its predecessor, "Police Story 2" does have Chan battling criminals like any movie cop, but with a kung-fu vengeance.
The first half hour or so of "Police Story II" is easily it's best and it seems as if the sequel to the original action masterpiece is going to be almost as good.
But Police Story 2 is still good, and a good Jackie Chan movie to check out.
Jackie Chan's fighting scenes are always amazing, but this movie focuses too much on a silly plot and sophomoric humor..
The action scenes are as spectacular as ever - most notably an eye-popping fight in a children's park, and the climactic showdown in an abandoned factory - but the script (credited to Chan and Edward Tang) is weak and uninvolving, and the characters are basically stick-figures, broadly played by an otherwise talented cast whose collective hamminess serves merely to dilute the impact of some pretty violent set-pieces.
** out of ****As the direct sequel to Jackie Chan's highly enjoyable Police Story, I had high expectations for this thriller, but those expectations were only occasionally met, making this an inconsistent action outing that's easily the weakest of the Police Story series.Jackie Chan returns as well, the cop with multiple names (depending on which version you see, he's Kevin Chan, Ka-Kui, or Jackie).
Jackie Chan movies have always been driven by action, so to expect anything different from Police Story II would be foolish.
The movie sets up two of these villains with high skills in martial arts, but they're hardly given a chance to strut their stuff in their fight scenes with Chan, which spend more time doing creative things with sets and props than actually trying to get the adrenaline pumping with an all-out kung-fu battle.Stupidity is something this movie has in spades.
Cheung is one of Hong Kong's most talented actresses, with a seemingly effortless ability to jump back and forth between performing slapstick stunts and humor (as she does here) and delivering powerful dramatic performances (as she did in the wonderful Hero, her best film to date)Police Story II is further weakened by a teeth-scratching score and a poor use of sound (the punches and kicks sound more like a guy beating a two-by-four against a rug, amplified by a broken microphone), but I guess that's to be expected from an 80's chop suey flick.
It tries too hard to rejuvenate the sense and the feel of the first film by having the bad guys of the original trying to kill Jackie off.The plot revolves around the unstable character Kevin Chan (played by Jackie Chan) whose loose cannon approach to police work gets him demoted to traffic duites - this is where he meets up with the bad guys of the original and realises that his life is going to tormented by the crooks he put into jail.Then, half way through the film switches direction for no reason - it turns to a small group of terrorists who threaten a large company into giving them 10, then 20 million dollars.The film gets confusing after a while, although you never watch a film for its plot - you watch it for the kung-fu and brilliant stunts performed by the egnimatic Jackie Chan - this is where he doesn't disappoint.
He makes use of a very low budget and uses every locale to its extreme - for example the jaw dropping fight in the kids playground or the amazing jump on to two moving veichles going in different directions leaves the viewer amazed and shows the unstable character of Kevin Chan exploding onto screen in every essence.The film then ends at a huge warehouse with one of the largest explosion sequences ever filmed in Asia - and right in the middle of it is Jackie Chan.Jackie doesn't disappoint in the action, nor the comedy - the plot and the lack of a credible storyline made this film fall flat on its face.Fortuently we find that Jackie Chan throws away the memories of this film with the amazing film Police Story 3: Supercop..
He is out to stop a band of blackmailing bombers as well as the man he put behind bars in the previous movie.Chan continues to display some of his best martial arts action in this film, with incredible stunt work, daredevil jumps and butt-kicking action.
It's good old-fashion fighting skills with no wires and CGI.The plot is pretty intriguing, though the story is also chock full of slapstick humor, and Chan seems more serious and sensitive in his character role.
The film is fast-paced fun with a lot of decent acting, courtesy, of course, Jackie Chan and Bill Tung.
Well, because it wasn't as action-packed as the first movie.Jackie Chan was, as usual, delivering impressive action and superbly choreographed stunts and fights.
And it is, of course, spiced up with a hint of the usual Jackie Chan comedy."Police Story 2" is an entertaining action movie for sure, but it is not one of the top Jackie Chan movies.
The Hong Kong super-cop (Jackie Chan) must stop a group of blackmailing bombers at the same time that the villains of the first Police Story are out for revenge.As much as I enjoyed this movie -- the humor, the explosions, the fast kicks to the face -- it has to be said that it never quite lives up to the first film.
Things just aren't so good for him, but when the bombers kidnaps Maggie, Ka Kui has had enough, and goes after the bombers.This movie along with the first Police Story is filled with classic action scenes from annals of Jackie Chan's action scenes.
While this movie is not the classic the first Police Story is, it's still one of the best action movies to come out of Hong Kong, and is recommended for viewing..
Although maybe not his best,the first Police Story  is definately amongst Jackie Chan's best films.This first[there are two more,and apparently another in production,Yippee!!]sequel is basically more of the same.It does not have the freshness of the original,but remains as good a sequel as one could expect.Once again the film mixes cops,martial arts and comedy.This last element is slightly less prevailant here then in the first film,though there are still some funny moments.Consequently the film is more evenly paced than the original,in which much of the humour slowed the movie down despite often being extremely funny.Unfortunately the action is not quite in the first film's league,there being nothing to match the incredible opening and closing of that film.Nevertheless the fighting,especially a setpiece in a playground,is still impressive and there are two incredibly dangerous stunts that were just darn stupid to attempt,one having Jackie cross a road by means of jumping on a car and a bus and then crashing through a window[real glass,he jumped through the wrong one!],and the other having him slide down a tube and JUST MISS being blown up.Just for equality's sake,co-star Maggie Chung had her hair nearly burnt off and metal bars fall on her!
Perhaps in a response to criticism Jackie's character is less the lone wolf he was in the original and there is more done by other police too,but this feature a rare really emotional scene in a Chan movie,in which Jackie is tied up and has his girlfriends break-up note read to him by the mocking villains.Overall,an efficient sequel that pretty much does the job..
Police story 2 is not as good, funny or action-packed as the original but is still a good movie to watch.There are less fight scenes in this then it was in the first one, but have some fight scenes that are really good.
The playground fight, is one of Jackies best ever.The story is about some drug dealers who are trying to kill Ka-Kui (Jackie Chan) because he put them in jail in the first movie.
He is correct in the fact that the original Police Story was one of the greatest achievements in Hong Kong film history; but the sequel was definitely not a disappointment.
In characteristic Chan style, the film mixes mind-blowing stunts and wonderfully choreographed fight scenes that showcase Jackie's incredible mix of grace, talent, and power.
This film was one of the few times that Jackie Chan played a real character instead of a cartoon.
And the action scenes are incredible.Much like the first couple Lethal Weapon film when Mel Gibson actually got into character instead of relying on his well worn movie star persona like he does in LW 3 & 4, Police Story 2 shows the multi talented Jackie actually creating a fully formed character.
I really don't know why Americans have to put up with a second rate no talent like Lucy Liu when there are so many wonderful Asian actresses like Maggie Cheung out there.I love Jackie Chan, but I have been very disappointed in his by the numbers American films.
I needed this.I saw the first two movies from Jackie Chan's Police Story franchise a few days ago...
I prefer the second movie, as it has more action, better constructed plot, and less silly comedy, but the first one is also rather great and I wholeheartedly recommend it.A direct continuation of 'Police Story', 'Police Story 2' tries hard - very hard - to top it everywhere.
Without spoilers, all of this is addressed in the second movie, and the sleazy corporate boss and his thugs appear again - to give us one of the most spectacular fight scenes in Jackie Chan's entire career.
(And they will give the viewers some great fighting and frighteningly huge explosions, unseen in Hong Kong movies before.) It is hardly the greatest story ever, but it gets the job done, flows nicely and gives us enough action and humour.And the action is exceptional.
Review: I was expecting more from this film because the end fight in the first Police Story was great but I was a bit disappointed with the outcome.
Average!Round-Up: Like the first Police Story, this movie was also directed by Jackie Chan who also wrote it with Edward Tang.
I recommend this movie to people who are into their action/comedy/crime/martial arts movies starring and directed by Jackie Chan & Maggie Cheung.
also a touch of humour that you expect from Jackie Chan, which makes it a fun action fighting experience even for the whole family.
Just like i said Jackie Chans a legend......if this movie can't get any better, Jackie's the man who also directed the film and write the story.
A true action classic and one of the best Jackie Chans movies.
There is no down-slide in the quality - it's a perfect trilogy with sense and incredible stunts (and not only Jackie Chan's character appears in all three movies - that's also excellent and keeps continuity up).Each movie can be described in a few words: No.1 - great (in all aspects - it is one gripping story from the very beginning to the very end) and funny (many scenes are ridiculous); No.2 - raging (Jackie is really off the hook here) and painful (Jackie gets tortured); No.3 - unbelievable (the woman that fights alongside with Jackie is incredible) and bombastic (should a lot of guns and explosions be mentioned?).As to the rest - much has been mentioned by the others.It's a trilogy that can be watched over and over again (at least by me).
Police Story 2 is the second film in a series directed by, and starring Jackie Chan.
The action in Police Story 2 feels much less real and gritty than the first film.
Although there is no "jumping from the top floor of a mall and sliding down Christmas lights" scene like in the first film, there are some great falls, fights and stunts that are worth watching.
John Cheung and Charlie Cho both return from the first film as sub-villains to the story.Similar to the first movie, the best action scenes are at the beginning and the end of the film and as stated the middle lumbers along at a slow pace but its still fun to watch and something about this series so far really grows on you.
Now this is a cool movie, and as Des Mangan says, when we discuss Jackie Chan movies we talk about the action, not the plot: so this is the one where he runs through thick traffic, gets beaten up in a playground by guys with iron bars, and is severely injured in a warehouse brawl at the end.
To me that says little, unless you said that it is the one where the warehouse blows up at the end, then I would know what movie was being referred to.After the events in Police Story, Jackie is demoted to traffic cop and the guy that he busted is now out of gaol.
The acting was good, Jackie Chan has great comic timing and makes the action look easy, although the out takes shown during the end credits show that it was anything but easy.
Also starring Bill Tung as Inspector Bill Wong, Kwok-Hung Lam as Superintendent Raymond Li and Charlie Cho as John Ko. I think the biggest problem is that this film is too chatty, with hardly any comedy, hardly any decent martial arts fights, no relevant thrills, and not enough action or stunt work by Chan, it's no surprise that I dozed off towards the end.
Although the film does lack the freshness and originality of its predecessor there's still a lot to like here, whether it be in the comic interplay between Chan and his superiors - still excellent - or in the action sequences which are even bigger and more explosive than in the original.
This movie essentially begins with "Detective Chan Ka Kui" (Jackie Chan) being unfairly demoted for his heroic actions in the previous film.
Now rather than reveal any more of this movie I will just say that it was a decent sequel for the most part with plenty of action and comedy for those who enjoy this type of film.
This movie is jam packed with creative fight sequences and a lot of stunt work with some violence but with slight humor to go with it as well, which is usual in Jackie Chan films.
The first "Police Story" was a important and essential film in Jackie Chan's career but this one is a solid sequel.