Chan plays Jackie, a
member of the Hong Kong police force who’s assigned to a CIA mission in
Ukraine, where double-agent Tsui, played by Jackson Lou, is looking around for
a nuclear mission. After a lot of trouble, Jackie finds himself in Australia,
where Tsui’s family lives: His beautiful sister (Chen Chen Wu) swims with the
sharks at a local aquarium/water park and her sick dad, Uncle Seven (Terry
Woo), is in charge of the local Chinatown gangs.
Even in this trimmed
edition, the movie still takes a while to move along: The first large action
scene – involving Jackie, Tsui’s very livid family and a ladder – is almost an
hour into the movie. McDonagh ended the review by saying, “Fans will be happy
to stick it out for the shenanigans at Uncle Seven's funeral, including Chan's
stunts on stilts.”
After the first three
movies, this one really showed a downhill slope. The franchise was doing so
well, what happened? Where was the excitement that we had before? This one was
a huge disappointment. If you liked the first three movies, don’t see this one,
it’s not worth the watch. You will be underwhelmed when watching it.
Believe it or not, they
tried to reboot the franchise twice. How did they do? Check in next week when
we look at them in “Police Story Month.”
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