POLICE STORY 3: SUPERCOP (Eureka Classics) Blu-ray

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Subverted in the painful-looking shots where Chan is shown getting clocked by a helicopter rotor and then carried off (presumably to the ER), and Yeoh lands wrong on the hood of a moving car, then falls to the street—taking a crew member with her. Nevertheless, its filming and release within only a few days might fetch it a name in record books". From outside to in, this stands out as a fabulous set, with the finished copies listed as having a hardbound slipcase featuring new artwork by R. Fanservice Extra: Chaibat's hideout hosts a number of men and women dressed only in swimming trunks and swimsuit, respectively. One, the film got picked up by an American distributor (Dimension Films), which gave Chan a hit US release, albeit a few years after it was finished.

Unlike the previous Police Story films where he portrayed a Hong Kong cop, Jackie portrays a mainland Chinese officer named Zhong Wen. But in there, there's some pure genius (the multiple phone-answering sequence in the first movie) that owes a debt of gratitude to the black and white comedies of old.As is usual in a Chan film, the end credits (which show out-takes of failed stunts) are one of Police Story 3 's highlights. We try to add new providers constantly but we couldn't find an offer for "Police Story 3: Super Cop" online.

I watched the HK cut with the original Cantonese mono track and it came through cleanly and clearly. Because of that lack of humor, it's made even more obvious how laughably bad and cheesy the story really is. When he's also hanging from the helicopter ladder as the actual thing is flying high over Hong Kong. So, Eureka have pulled out all the stops to deliver a superb package after us Brits have waited decades for a decent release.A dazzling blend of gritty action cop drama, impeccably choreographed martial-arts sequences, and bone-crunching stunt work. initial":{"instruction_type":"normal","instruction_message":"Attach a note to your tip (optional)"},"empty":{"instruction_type":"normal","instruction_message":"Attach a note to your tip (optional)"},"not_empty_initial":{"instruction_type":"normal","instruction_message":"Attach a note to your tip (optional)"},"saving":{"instruction_type":"normal","instruction_message":"Saving note. She might not have done every shot herself as is claimed, but she did a healthy proportion of them, including some real hair-raising stuff in the final act. With more polish than its predecessors, plus a stupendous final act, it’s a real treat for HK action fans. Police Story Reborn) in Japan [58] and even used an updated version of the Police Story title song once again sung by Jackie Chan in the end credits.

Most fans will be wondering just where you go from the 2018 4K remastered Blu-rays that Eureka released, because they were - at least at the time - comfortably the definitive way to watch the first two movies, bringing them to our screens (and to the correct aspect ratio) in stunning style, afforded a revitalisation that, whilst hardly concealing the minimalist budget of these movies, still gave them a new lease of life. These films are classic Jackie Chan and highlight all the elements that Westerners would come to enjoy in films like the aforementioned Rush Hour or Shanghai Knights, only more concise, less constrained for Hollywood purposes, and Chan is lot fitter and quicker. Factory unleashes a Blu-ray for Chuck Norris’ 1982 martial arts hit ‘Forced Vengeance’ arriving in January Yes!

I’m not usually a fan of location featurettes but the one here is actually pretty good as Arne Venema takes us around the locations himself and clearly points out where specific shots were filmed, rather than merely showing the dry wides of before and after we normally get in these pieces.

In the West, Tom Cruise is famous for doing his own stunts, however almost all of them can be traced back to the golden days of Jackie Chan; the lightning-fast, bone-breaking (mostly his own) HK superstar whose most renowned work is probably his seminal Police Story Trilogy. Shruti Indira Laskhminarayana (14 June 2011), "Sudeep shoots Police Story 3 in a record 12 hours", Rediff. As recently as 2018, they did new 4K remasters of the first two movies, and it would be surprising if these weren't the same restorations used as the backbone for this release, excepting of course Police Story 3: Supercop, which has never before received an HD, let alone UHD, release in the UK, and which comes to 4K courtesy of a brand new native 4K restoration of the original film elements. A gorgeous Chinese woman, martial-arts expert and efficient cop is doing her part all the time to protect Jackie Chan's back.The 4K UHD and 1080 discs in this package have slightly different arrays of supplemental material, per the lists below. The film also has an added level of sheen through being the first HK film Chan made with sync sound. It isn't that bad of a fall, but she falls off the car during the car chase in one of the takes, you see this in the bloopers. To infiltrate Chaibat's organization, Ka-Kui is to get close to Chaibat's henchman Panther, who is in a Chinese prison. Fun Fact: Quentin Tarantino once stated in an interview that if the Earth is going to be destroyed and he could launch one piece of film into space to preserve it for aliens, it would be the final action scene of this movie.