Wonderful character development!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Now this is a cool movie, and as Des Mangan says, when we discuss Jackie Chan movies we talk about the action, not the plot: so this is the one where he runs through thick traffic, gets beaten up in a playground by guys with iron bars, and is severely injured in a warehouse brawl at the end. To me that says little, unless you said that it is the one where the warehouse blows up at the end, then I would know what movie was being referred to.After the events in Police Story, Jackie is demoted to traffic cop and the guy that he busted is now out of gaol. The guy is tormenting Jackie so he beats him up in a restaurant and decides to retire, but before he leaves for Bali, he saves a whole heap of people in a shopping mall when they receive a bomb threat. So, he is reinstated and must go after these bunch of people who like blowing things up.This is quite a humorous movie, and poor May (the girlfriend) seems to land up in no end of trouble. She is sent to Bali without a passport, drives into a parked car, and is harassed by gangsters and terrorists. Being the girlfriend of a famous cop is probably not a good idea because they will pick on you to get to him, but that is what May is there for.This is a great little movie, and very funny. I actually think that it is far superior to the original Police Story, which I found to be interesting, but not exciting. But still, since it is a Jackie Chan movie, it is good.

Inspector Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) continues his adventure in this second installment of the Police Story.Story is a continuation of the first Police Story. Ka Kui is excused of all his actions, but gets reassigned to the traffic department. He soon gets involved with the bombers who are blackmailing the building owner. The guys who Ka Kui captured in the first part is also out of jail. His relation with Maggie is also on the rocks. Things just aren't so good for him, but when the bombers kidnaps Maggie, Ka Kui has had enough, and goes after the bombers.This movie along with the first Police Story is filled with classic action scenes from annals of Jackie Chan's action scenes. Some of these are: Jackie crossing the freeway on foot and at the end gets hit by a van. Jackie jumping on to a two decker bus and then jumping into the glass made Lee Kum Kee's bill board. Scene where Maggie Chung runs from the villain, and steel frameworks dominoing after her (scene where she actually got hurt badly in the head). And countless falls from the building's windows.This movie is worth watching just for these scenes, but there's a bevy of beautiful actresses from the late '80s adoring this movie. While this movie is not the classic the first Police Story is, it's still one of the best action movies to come out of Hong Kong, and is recommended for viewing.

Unfortunately I haven't seen the first film so can't say if this is better or worse, either way this film is a lot of fun. The story might not be the best every but that is okay when the action is so good. As one would expect from a Jackie Chan film there are lots of brilliantly choreographed fight scenes and some spectacular stunts.The film opens with Chan Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) being demoted to a traffic cop because of the amount of damage he caused when arresting a major criminal. Unfortunately for him the criminal he arrested is released because he is terminally ill and his henchman is determined to make life difficult for Ka Kui and his girl friend May. This leads to him getting in a spectacular fight in a children's play ground which in turn leads to him being reprimanded by his superiors. He decides to quit the police and take May to Bali on holiday, of course things don't go according to plan as while he is buying the tickets there is a bomb scare in the mall, even though he has quit the police force he takes control of the situation and evacuates the mall before the bomb detonates. After this he is brought back onto the force in order to investigate the bombers who are demanding a ten million dollar ransom not to blow up another building. As he closes in on them they kidnap May in order to force him to collect the ransom for them, this leads to a explosive show down between Ka Kui and the bombers in a fireworks factory.While the film is dominated by the action there are also plenty of good comic moments such as when May follows Ka Kui into the changing room and harangues him in front of his naked colleagues. The acting was good, Jackie Chan has great comic timing and makes the action look easy, although the out takes shown during the end credits show that it was anything but easy. While there is a lot of action it is of a fairly slap-stick nature so it should be suitable for older children to watch, the main reason not to show it to younger children is that they might be tempted to try and copy some of the stunts such as the play ground fight.These comments are based on watching the film in Cantonese with English subtitles.

To me this part is much better than the first one. There is much more action in this part and it's taking itself a little more serious so it's more an action film than a comedy. The playground fight was probably one of the best Jackie Chan's fights ever. There also was many impressive stunts, much more than in American Jackie's movies. The Deaf Criminal was probably one of the most colorful Jackie's opponents. Even the plot was better than in a first part. In this part Jackie Chan's character has to not only fight his new enemies, he also has to deal with an old ones. I liked the new villains of this movie, which were a very violent and dangerous people. There was many violent, intense and dramatical moments in this movie so it's one of my favorite Jackie's movies.