Stars: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kenny Ho

Director: Jackie Chan

Summary: Kevin Chan, demoted and harassed for his one-man war against a gang of criminals, decides to take a much needed vacation, but is back in business when Hong Kong becomes the target for a string of bomb scares...

Like a cross between Buster Keaton and a blender, Jackie Chan is back in the second installment of the POLICE STORY series. This time Kevin (Chan) must once again face the mobster he caught in the first film--and the criminal's not too happy about his jail time. POLICE STORY 2 also stars Maggie Cheung and Kenny Ho.

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Police Story 2(1989) is one of those rare sequels that's more fun than its predecessor. Jackie Chan plays his usual rule-breaking cop, loyal to superiors that carp at the destruction he leaves in his wake but are prepared to take credit for every success he has. Here he finds himself up against vengeful gangsters whose plans he frustrated in the first of the series; but he also has to combat a ruthless team of extortionists with a taste for explosions both large and small--blowing up large buildings, turning people into human bombs and torturing people with firecrackers are all part of their repertoire. He has girlfriend trouble, too, since his fiancée is worried that he always puts the job first.

Like its predecessor and the quasi-sequel First Strike(1996), Police Story 2is transitional between Chan's early more fight-orientated Hong Kong movies and his later, blander Hollywood films. The fights and stunts here are most of the point of what is essentially a very good generic Jackie Chan vehicle; he takes on progressively larger groups of opponents, coping, for example, with a dozen gangsters armed with swords in a terraced garden by leaping from level to level and paying each opponent individual attention. The final fight in a fireworks factory is a Chan classic, depending as it does as much on the comedy of frustrating repetition as on daring stunts. --Roz Kaveney

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	Cantonese
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	King Of Action A Tribute To Jackie Chan, Interview And Talent Showcase With Benny Lai, Trailer Gallery, Out Take Montage, Feature Length Audio Commentary By Stuntman Jude Poyer And Hong Kong Cinema Expert Miles Wood
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1989
Release Date:	March 25, 2002
Runtime:	101 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	M D V 597
Label:	Hong Kong Legends
Keywords:	Martial, Story, Subtitled, Police, Wide, Screen, Dubbed, Cantonese, Arts, Goo, Si, Chaat, Ging, Jaap, Juk
Genre:	Martial Arts