This is the film about the police chasing a criminal organization. In an shoot-out between the police and the mobs, an officer Chan, played by Jackie Chan, captures their secretary Selina. After failing to arrest their boss, the police detain Selina as a potential witness against him, and order Chan to guard her.
But such a plot exists only to give reasons to their actions. Chan hangs at the side of a runnning double-decker bus by an umbrella, because the boss tries to flee. Chan fights funnily with a fake assassin in Selina's apartment, because he needs to make her more cooporative. Indeed this film has no single boring scene. No single scene that exists only to tell what is happening. They always have something that makes you excited or laugh.
It is the type of movie that it is fun to imagine what it looked like behind the scenes. Created in the 80s, they had no computer, no green-screen compositing. Everything you see is what they actually did. They must have practiced every step of the fight sequences. They must have made preparation for every dangerous stunt. Imagine your job is to build a shanty town for days, only to be destroyed in a one-minute car chase.
The center of the film is, of course, Jackie Chan as Chan. His role is rather a humorous and bumbling young officer than a superhuman martial artist. He tries to skillfully take advantage of women, and end up being paid back for it. I like him, because he is a simple man who knows nothing we don't know, thinks nothing we don't expect.
I also like Selina, May, and any other characters. I feel it is kind of silly to talk about their acting skills or something. They run, jump, flail, and shout with all their strength, devoting themselves to making the scenes exciting. It is good enough for me.
But such a plot exists only to give reasons to their actions. Chan hangs at the side of a runnning double-decker bus by an umbrella, because the boss tries to flee. Chan fights funnily with a fake assassin in Selina's apartment, because he needs to make her more cooporative. Indeed this film has no single boring scene. No single scene that exists only to tell what is happening. They always have something that makes you excited or laugh.
It is the type of movie that it is fun to imagine what it looked like behind the scenes. Created in the 80s, they had no computer, no green-screen compositing. Everything you see is what they actually did. They must have practiced every step of the fight sequences. They must have made preparation for every dangerous stunt. Imagine your job is to build a shanty town for days, only to be destroyed in a one-minute car chase.
The center of the film is, of course, Jackie Chan as Chan. His role is rather a humorous and bumbling young officer than a superhuman martial artist. He tries to skillfully take advantage of women, and end up being paid back for it. I like him, because he is a simple man who knows nothing we don't know, thinks nothing we don't expect.
I also like Selina, May, and any other characters. I feel it is kind of silly to talk about their acting skills or something. They run, jump, flail, and shout with all their strength, devoting themselves to making the scenes exciting. It is good enough for me.