Police Story (1985)
Jackie Chan's 1985 Hong Kong action film. He directed, choreographed, and did his own stunts.
Jackie Chan trained at the Peking Opera School from seven in an arrangement that amounted to indentured labor, and the physical training there produced everything since.
He deliberately built a persona opposite Bruce Lee’s: a fighter who is frightened, improvises with props and gets hurt. The outtakes over his end credits, showing failed stunts and injuries, became a signature.
Police Story, Drunken Master and Project A are the Hong Kong essentials, and Rush Hour brought the American career. He has broken almost every bone in his body and received an honorary Academy Award.
Bill TungJackie Chan's 1985 Hong Kong action film. He directed, choreographed, and did his own stunts.
Chris TuckerRush Hour is the buddy cop trilogy that made Jackie Chan a Hollywood leading man and Chris Tucker an A-list comedy actor for a brief window of his career. Brett Ratner directed all three films.
Charlie MurphyThe Foreigner is one of the substantial action-thriller productions of the late 2010s and one of Jackie Chan's most substantively dramatic Hollywood produ. Martin Campbell had directed GoldenEye in 1995, The Mask of Zorro in 1998, Vertical Limit in 2000,…
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