[KFCC] First Strike Review

Story: Jackie, a Hong Kong Police officer, assist the CIA in a nuclear arms smuggling investigation. Jackie is sent to Ukraine to follow a mysterious women. After a hot pursuit of one of the suspects Jackie get hired by Russian officials to track the suspect all the way to Australia. He must recover the nuclear warhead before it is sold.

Review: This is the 4th installment of Police Story, and this time around Jackie Chan goes all the way to Russia and end up in Australia. This is another one of Jackie Chan's successful movies, he uses the same simple formula. A simple storyline, fantastic stunts and comedy.

The characters in this movie are very simple, there isn't any development. Jackie Chan's characters is the same as in most of his other movies, he is funny and amusing as usual. There is not much to say about the other characters, other than they advance the story.

This movie is high action a la Jackie Chan style. In addition to the incredible stunts which Jackie does there is some military action as the Russian army tries to stop the nuclear weapon thieves. Some of the exciting scenes include Jackie Chan going down a mountain on a snowboard being chased by soldiers, an underwater fight and the now famous ladder fight. You will be well entertained through out this film and Jackie's humour will keep you smiling too.

The subtitles on the Malaysian version were not the best, they were small and hard to read but half of the movie dialog is in English so its not that bad. Considering there is no DVD version out yet, the VCD version is not the best quality so it might be worth it to wait. But you get some extra scenes who are not on the Dimension release. There is not much more to be said about this movie, like most of Jackie Chan's films it is very entertaining. Most of his movies have that wining formula, you will certainly find this film enjoyable.