Everything Action Theater: Jackie Chan’s First Strike
The fourth movie in the Police Story series, First Strike followed Supercop to the West and became another international hit for Jackie Chan in the mid-90s. Jackie plays “Jackie” (or Chan Ka-Kui in the original version), who is recruited by the CIA to help track down stolen nuclear weapons and the movie leans more into James Bond/espionage than the previous Police Story movies. There are still tons of classic Jackie Chan action scenes though, including a snowboarding setpiece and a climactic aquatic finale where Jackie faces henchmen and a shark. The movie is Jackie’s biggest hit ever still in Hong Kong and was a massive hit in the US as well, making $15.3 million, although, like Supercop, the movie was re-edited, redubbed, and had some footage cut for the US release. You can watch the entire movie below thanks to YouTube.
I’m like the J. Jonah Jameson of Everything Action, writing and editing and constantly demanding pictures of Spider-Man.
