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Jackie Chan's First Strike (1997)
Runtime: 87 mins
Synopsis: In director Stanley Tong's action-packed film, martial arts megastar Jackie Chan (as a Hong Kong police officer named Jackie) battles on land, in the air, and underwater in his efforts to help both the CIA and a Russian intelligence agency retrieve a stolen Ukrainian nuclear warhead. Sent on... In director Stanley Tong's action-packed film, martial arts megastar Jackie Chan (as a Hong Kong police officer named Jackie) battles on land, in the air, and underwater in his efforts to help both the CIA and a Russian intelligence agency retrieve a stolen Ukrainian nuclear warhead. Sent on an easy tailing job, Jackie gets more than he bargained for and is soon fighting for survival on a frozen mountaintop against gun-toting baddies on skis and snowmobiles. Luckily the chase sends him to warm Australia, but danger still comes at Jackie from all angles--including sharks from below. As with other scintillating Tong-Chan partnerships, FIRST STRIKE features classic Chan-style slapstick comedy and balletic fight sequences, including an unforgettable warehouse brawl in which his only allies are a stepladder and a broomstick. Chan's already incomparable legend as a daredevil stuntman is fortified by a virtually unbroken string of dangerous acrobatics and by the news, upon the film's release, that its star contracted severe hypothermia after filming a plunge into an ice-glutted lake. [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Jackie Chan, Jackson Lau, Chen Chun Wu, Bill Tung, Jouri Petrov
Producer: Barbie Tung
Screenwriter: Stanley Tong, Nick Tramontaine, Greg Mellott, Elliott Tong
Composer: J. Peter Robinson
DVD Info
Release:
Jun 9, 2005
Reviews
All the action and laughs that one would expect from a Police Story film--or, for that matter, a Jackie Chan film--are in full view here.
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