New Police Story
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New Police Story (Chinese: 新警察故事) is a 2004 action film, directed by Benny Chan.
As with all the Police Story films, New Police Story is an action movie, with Jackie Chan in the lead role as a heroic but troubled police officer from Hong Kong. The film's storyline has little connection with the earlier Police Story instalments.
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[edit] Storyline
The film begins with a highly intoxicated police Inspector Chan Kwok Wing drinking one whisky after another. Later, he collapses in an alley, and is found by a stranger played by Nicholas Tse. The timeline now moves back a year.
The heroics of Inspector Chan are shown, as he disguises himself as a news cameraman in order to subdue a man holding a woman hostage in Central.
Soon after that incident, a group of rich, rebellious young people rob a bank. They explicitly ask the bank manager to call the police. They then confront the police outside the Legislative Council building. Having wounded countless police officers, they manage to escape. Apparently they treat the shooting as a game: The more officers a person shoots down, the more money he is awarded.
Inspector Chan and his squad are called to arrest the gang after their hideout is revealed. The team arrive at the hideout only to find that it is rigged with traps. Chan's men, one of whom is the brother of Chan's girlfriend, are killed one by one. Being the sole survivor of the incident, Chan takes a year-long leave from the police force, drinking heavily to drown his sorrows.
The timeline jumps back to the present. After his latest round, he sees a woman whose bag is snatched by two youngsters. In his drunken state, Chan tries to draw his gun, but takes out his bottle instead. He is knocked down and robbed by the youths. Later, he is found by an unknown man, who takes him home. When Chan wakes up, the man identifies himself as PC 1667, Frank Chang, his new partner.
Frank informs Chan that the gang that killed his men have recently struck again, and have made a computer game of the incident. He hints that by playing the game, they can keep track the gang's moves. Although Chan is initially reluctant to pursue the case, but is encouraged when he foils the two young bag-snatchers as they try to repeat the earlier crime.
Chan re-enters his office, vowing to apprehend the gang once and for all. Their first clue is their former colleague, Wong Sum, who had resigned from the force after the incident with the gang the previous year. He shows Chan a watch he yanked from one gang member, a girl named Sue. They track down Sue to a rooftop extreme sports party. However, the police have also sent a large number of men to investigate the venue, bringing Wong Sum with them. Before Wong Sum is able to identify the girl to whom the watch belongs, another gang member, named Fire, soars towards him on his BMX and shoots him dead. Before dying, Wong Sum confesses to Chan that he betrayed their plans to the gang before they took action.
An intense chase sequence begins. Using a climbing rope, Fire jumps off the roof, cycling down the wall of the building, while the girl slides down on roller blades. To distract Chan, Fire shoots at a bus driver, rendering the bus out of control. Chan quickly jumps onto the roof of the bus in an attempt to stop it. He finally manages to hit the brakes just moments before the bus is about to fall into the Victoria Harbour, and after it has caused a great deal of havoc in Central.
After the incident, Chan discovers that Frank is not a real policeman. In spite of this, they continue to stalk Joe, the gang leader. According to information provided by a policewoman, Officer Sa Sa, the gang members all have rich parents. Joe, the gang leader is also the son of a police chief. Meanwhile, Joe's gang are going through Chan's information on a computer.
Sue is badly wounded from a gunshot fired by Frank. When they return to their hideout, Joe shoots and kills her remorselessly.
Chan and Frank follow Joe to Chan's girlfriend's house. However, all this serves to distract Chan, as another gang member, Max, drives over to Chan's car and dumps a smoke grenade into it.
Joe then arranges to meet Chan's girlfriend in the police station. He wraps a time bomb around her neck before leaving. In spite of Chan's efforts, the bomb goes off, and Chan's girlfriend is knocked into a coma by some falling pipes. Unfortunately for Chan, he is charged with being responsible for the bombing, and is imprisoned in the police station with Frank.
After they are taunted by Joe's gang, Sa Sa "coerces" (by whining and threatening to run away from home) her father, the jailer to release Chan and Frank. The two sneak out of the police station, with everyone deliberately ignoring their departure. They find out that the gang's next target is the Bank of Hong Kong, located in the New Wing of the Convention and Exhibition Centre.
As before, the police arrive, but this time, Chan stops them from rushing in, assigning them the task of calmly escorting the public out of the building. Once no one is within sight of anyone that might be on the upper floors, the gang members' parents are sent in much to their surprise. One of the gang members, Max, is so ashamed of himself that he attempts to run down the escalators to his parents, only to be shot dead by Joe.
Afterwards, Chan and Frank run up to engage the three remaining gang members. Frank manages to shoot Fire in the leg with his own gun, disabling him. Chan chases another gang member Tin Tin into a Lego exhibition. When the exhibition hall is emptied, the two engage in hand-to-hand combat, with Chan defeating Tin Tin. Joe then chases Frank into the hall, and shoots at him. In the cross fire, Tin Tin is shot in the chest.
Joe manages to chase Frank out of the room just moments before the Special Duties Unit of the police arrive. Chan asks them to call an ambulance to take care of the Tin Tin.
Chan finds Joe on the roof of the Convention Centre. Having captured and tied up Frank, Joe threatens to throw Frank to his death. Joe challenges Chan to a race to assemble a handgun, a rematch of an earlier challenge, wagering Frank's life in the process. This time, Chan swiftly wins the game and aims his gun at Joe's head. A large number of policemen arrive on the roof, along with Joe's father, the police chief. Joe's father reprimands him, causing Joe to raise his gun.
A police sniper then fires two rounds at Joe, killing him, and setting Frank up for a free fall. Chan tries to save Frank, but is dragged down the buiding by Frank's weight. Chan ends up clutching a support pillar of the building, holding Frank between his legs. Chan eventually loses his grips and falls down with Frank, and lands on an airbed set up by firemen.
In the hospital, Chan's girlfriend recovers and prepares to leave. She is met by a large number of policemen and nurses who persuade her to accept Chan's marriage proposal. She accepts the proposal to the applause of the crowd. Meanwhile, Frank is led away by Officer Sa Sa. He leaves his jacket on a railing. When Chan looks at the jacket, he has another flashback.
In the flashback, a man from the mainland arrives and tries to steal some food for his son from a 7-Eleven store. While running across the road from the shopkeeper and the police, he is knocked down by a truck and killed. Chan arrives at the scene, and orders his men to call the ambulance, while using his jacket to cover the body of the boy's father. Chan then buys the boy a loaf of bread, and comforts him, saying that a lot of unfair things happen in life, the best one should do is to try to forget it and look forward to the future. He asks the boy for his name. The boy reveals his name - it is Frank Chang.
[edit] Cast
- Jackie Chan ... Inspector Chan Kwok Wing
- Nicholas Tse ... Frank Cheng
- Charlie Yeung ... Ho Yee Sun
- Daniel Wu ... Joe Kwan
- Charlene Choi ... Sa Sa
- Dave Wong ... Sam / Wong Sum
- Hayama Go ... Max Leung
- Terence Yin... Fire
- Coco Chiang ... Sue Chow
- Andy On ... Tin Tin Law
[edit] Box Office
New Police Story opened in Hong Kong on September 23, 2004, where it made $5,625,746 HKD in its first three days. It ended its run with $21 million HKD, making it the fourth highest-grossing domestic release of the year.
[edit] US Version
New Police Story was released on DVD by Lions Gates. The DVD included an English dub, with participation by Jackie Chan. A cut was made towards the end of the film wherein a young Frank Cheng was being escorted back to the PRC by Chan.
[edit] Awards
24th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards
- Nomination - Best Picture
- Nomination - Best Director (Benny Chan)
- Nomination - Best Actor (Jackie Chan)
- Nomination - Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Wu)
- Nomination - Best Editing (Yau Chi-Wai)
- Nomination - Best Action Design (Lee Chung-Chi, Jackie Chan Stunt Team)
- Nomination - Best Sound Effects (Kinson Tsang Kin-Cheung)
- Nomination - Best Visual Effects (Wong Won-Tak, Ho Chi-Fai)
41st Annual Golden Horse Awards
- Winner - Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Wu)
- Winner - Best Action Choreography (Lee Chung-Chi, Jackie Chan Stunt Team)
- Winner - Best Visual Effects (Victor Wong, Brian Ho)
- Winner - Audience Choice Award
- Nomination - Best Editing (Yau Chi-Wai)
- Nomination - Best Art Direction (Wong Ching-Ching, Choo Sung-Pong, Oliver Wong)
- Nomination - Best Sound Effects (Tsang King-Cheung)
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
| Police Story |
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| Police Story | Police Story 2 | Police Story 3 | Police Story 4: First Strike | New Police Story |
| Spin-off | Project S |
