{"id":10151,"date":"2015-09-13T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2015-09-10T12:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T17:38:49","slug":"police-story-1985-jackie-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10151","title":{"rendered":"Police Story (1985, Jackie Chan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pretty bad mid-80’s cop movie with average acting and horrible comedy. But oh man, when the action scenes start, there is nothing better. Cars barrel down a hill right through a shanty town, Chan uses cars as weapons and shields, and it ends with a jump\/fall so great they show it three times. Plot-wise, Chan has to protect Brigitte Lin from gangsters before she testifies. He does a poor job gaining her trust (having a disguised fellow cop pretend to attack so Chan can save her) then does a poor job explaining her presence to his indignant girlfriend Maggie Cheung.<\/p>\n

Fake-attack:<\/em>
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Movie puts forth the Clint Eastwoody idea that gangsters can’t be convicted in the courts because the system is corrupt, so it’s best to kill them straight away. But oh man, the action scenes. Non-action highlights include an endless court scene with all dialogue in Cantonese except the oft-repeated English phrase “I object,” and a dogshit moonwalk.<\/p>\n

That’s Maggie on the left:<\/em>
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Won best picture\/choreography at the HK Film Awards (vs. fellow nominee Mr. Vampire<\/a><\/em>, heh), got at least five sequels. Maggie was still three years away from As Tears Go By<\/a><\/em>, Brigitte starred in Peking Opera Blues<\/em> the following year, and baddie Yuen Chor directed over 40 films in the 1960’s and 1970’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pretty bad mid-80’s cop movie with average acting and horrible comedy. But oh man, when the action scenes start, there is nothing better. Cars barrel down a hill right through a shanty town, Chan uses cars as weapons and shields, and it ends with a jump\/fall so great they show it three times. Plot-wise, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,697,1243,1990,696],"class_list":["post-10151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-brigitte-lin","tag-gangsters","tag-jackie-chan","tag-maggie-cheung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}