“Police Story” is classic Jackie Chan with a looney-tunes plot all in the service of Chan’s inimitable, superhuman gymnastic and athletic ability.

| Feb 12, 2024

Modern and urban, filled with gritty action and juvenile slapstick, it incorporated Jackie’s brand of acrobatic martial arts (with all its comic flourishes) with big budget set pieces and eye-popping stunts.

| Oct 28, 2023

Jackie Chan has no equal.

| Nov 23, 2022

Although the blend of whimsy and adventure swings more toward the former than the latter, Chan's signature stunt choreography is no less impressive.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 6, 2020

The humor and music didn't work for me but the action is unmatched

| Apr 11, 2020

If you enjoy action comedies, look no further than "Police Story", a film that highlights all the elements that made Jackie Chan an international superstar.

| Nov 30, 2019

...a bona fide masterpiece of action cinema.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jun 3, 2019

As writer/director/star/stunt coordinator, Chan secured legend status right here before our very eyes with Police Story.

| May 8, 2019

a goofy action comedy that redefined the boundaries of the martial arts film by incorporating kung-fu theatrics into a modern police procedural

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2019

Chan shows off his formidable physical agility and winsome personality.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2019

Arresting fight scenes well orchestrated. Whatever area the fights take place in, everything in the vicinity will be used to fight with; whether it's a shoe, two small steps, or a sock - Chan will find a way to use them creatively during the fight.

| May 3, 2019

It's the joy of watching Chan, a Buster Keaton of kickboxing, hurling himself into every stunt with total commitment, astounding athleticism and oddly unflappable, shaggy-haired grace.

| Mar 7, 2019

In Police Story, Chan is able to highlight all of his gifts as an action star, a comedic star, and as a director balancing the two.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2019

...[shows] writer-director-star Jackie Chan in his finest fighting style -- along with his usual over mugging for the camera.

| Jan 31, 2019

[Chan's] impeccable sense for how to stage a sequence extends to simple conversations, and the films are built around what's possible in terms of action rather than filling in action to support the plot.

| Dec 28, 2018

Featuring cinema's best bus-related stunt sequence, a spectacular finale in a shopping mall and, um, multiple instances of its star getting hit in the face with cake.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2018

Just as good as the fights though are Police Story's comic set pieces, especially one totally unrelated to any kind of plot development, which finds Chan alone in the precinct office as everyone else goes to lunch.

| Mar 8, 2018

Chan seems to do everything he can think of to ingratiate himself with viewers.

| Mar 6, 2018

One of the great 1980s action films. It's also one of the most 1980s action films.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 6, 2018

The likeable and graceful Chan directs, sings and performs jaw-dropping stunts. Few of his American or Austrian rivals attempt a fraction of that.

| Jun 24, 2006