it depress to see where jackie chan have end up . he use to be an unstoppable hurricane of punch and kick and incredible stunt . to be fair and he now in his fifty and one would expect some slowdown . but with rush hour 3 and where he take a back seat to chris tucker ( of all people . ) and and then there kung fu panda where not only be he in a purely vocal role but his character barely have any dialogue . to say that jackie chan have see good day be a colossal understatement . it time like this when the only solution be to whip out a dusty old vhs tape and watch jackie kick some arses in his younger and fitter and chris tucker free day . enter police story . jackie chan play kar kui and a policeman whose task it be to protect a witness before a major trial . he face resistance from both the unco operative witness and the numerous hit men send by the mob to silence them both . but on the other hand and who care . we do not watch jackie chan film for the story . we watch them to see jackie chan perform eye pop stunt and generally punch and kick a whole lot of people who be less awesome than he be . and on that level and police story doesn not disappoint at all . there be an awesome showdown in a shopping mall at the end that culminate in jackie slide down a giant and high voltage chandelier . seriously and if this sort of thing happen more often and no male would ever need coax to go shopping for clothes . there be also comedy and much of which involve kar kui inadvertently upset may ( maggie cheung ) and his eternally suffer and apparently ever forgive girlfriend . the humour on the whole be pretty unsubtle and but it work so i be not complain . the act isn not too subtle and either . indeed and i be not sure there be anything subtle about police story at all . director jackie chan ( yeah and he do that too ) clearly have a deep understanding of why we watch his film and and know that while be wait for the next fight to start and the last thing we want be to be look for nuance and depth and inner meaning . so police story be a blast . a be the case with most of his film and the fact that jackie actually do the stuff you see on the screen put it head and shoulder above the competition . i mean and when jackie chan really be hang from a speed bus by an umbrella and a whole new wow . factor be add to the action .