Jing cha gu shi 2
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Jackie ChanComposer:
Siu-Tin LaiCast:
Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Ken Lo, Ma Wu, John Cheung, Benny Lai, Danny Chow, Alvina Kong, Biao Yuen, Dennis Chan, Siu-ming Lau, Jiajin He, Bill Tung, Mars (more)VOD (3)
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Jackie Chan followed up the massive success of Police Story with an even bigger box-office hit. Having been demoted to a lowly traffic cop for his, ahem, unorthodox policing methods, Chan’s go-it-alone officer Ka-Kui quits the force in protest. But it isn’t long before he’s back in action, racing the clock to stop a band of serial bombers and win back his much-put-upon girlfriend May (the phenomenal Maggie Cheung, reprising her star-making role). Boasting epic explosions, an awesomely 1980s electro soundtrack, and a showstopping finale—which turns an abandoned warehouse into a life-size pinball machine of cascading oil drums, collapsing scaffolds, and shooting fireworks—Police Story 2 confi rmed Chan’s status as a performer of unparalleled grace and daring. (Criterion)
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Jackie Chan still delivers great punches and it is evident that he is also a capable director. He is entertaining, with truly grotesque moments in his films, which are excellently complemented by incredibly long action scenes and fights where it is beautifully visible how perfectly he masters choreography, which is, admittedly, more like a dance and not a fight, but I simply like this action circus.
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Jackie either has to love cinema and his job, or he's outrageously greedy and one salary isn't enough for him. Judge for yourself - he sings the main song, he acts, makes jokes, he wrote it, participated significantly in the choreography, treats injured stuntmen, but also does stunts himself and, just by the way, he also directed it. And all this he has accomplished even better than last time, but only by the breadth of a hair from the chest of a Chinese Crested Dog. But maybe it's because this one is perhaps not more serious but certainly less cheerful and, in any case, more of an action-like sequel, that it appealed to me more. But really by just that hair’s breadth.
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