Police Story 4: First Strike
Short description
Jackie Chan returns as Hong Kong police officer Chan Ka-Kui, who is drawn into an international operation involving a stolen nuclear warhead. Working alongside Interpol and intelligence agencies, he is assigned to follow a woman named Natasha, hoping she will lead him to her contacts. The trail takes him far from home, through Ukraine, Russia and Australia, as he pursues an illegal arms dealer and a former intelligence operative. What begins as straightforward surveillance turns into a pursuit in which Chan cannot be certain who is using whom, and he must rely on his wits and fighting skills to survive.
Stanley Tong directed the film, his fourth Jackie Chan collaboration after Police Story 3: Super Cop, Supercop 2 and Rumble in the Bronx, and he shares screenplay credit with Greg Mellott and Elliot Tong. The cast includes Jackson Liu, Annie Wu, Bill Tung, Yuri Petrov and Nonna Grishaeva, among roughly fifty credited performers. It was made across Russia, Ukraine, Australia, Hong Kong and the United States.
The film was released in February 1996 and took about 53 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.6 out of 10 from around 24,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from 553 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 6.3 out of 10 from 22 reviews, so audiences and critics are closely aligned.
What's left behind the scenes
- Some episodes of the film were shot at the Yalta Film Studio in Crimea.
- Jackie Chan arrived in Moscow in early January 1996 and immediately departed for Simferopol. On January 17th, he returned and continued filming in Red Square and Krylatskoye. In total, Jackie spent about a month in Ukraine and Russia.
- Filming in Crimea took place at Swallow's Nest and the Foros Church, while in Moscow it was done in Krylatskoye and Red Square.
- Since Annie Wu did not speak Cantonese at the time, all her scenes, including family scenes, were filmed in Mandarin.
- The scenes filmed in the snowy mountains of Ukraine, where Jackie arrived on a snowmobile, were actually filmed in Australia. If you look closely, you can see many green eucalyptus trees.
- The American version of the film is 30 minutes shorter than the Hong Kong version.
- During filming, Jackie Chan broke the front part of his jaw, damaged his oral cavity, and his nose.
- The sharks in the film were made by the Wellington Robotechnology Institute of New Zealand. 3 robotic grey sharks were 3.5 meters long and weighed approximately 100 kilograms dry each. These pneumatic sharks were designed to swim independently in saltwater alongside real sharks.
- When Jackie jumps onto the boat in the red car, the airbag remains inflated, although it should deflate immediately.
- This is the first film in the "Police Story" series that was partially filmed in English.
- Most of the equipment was kindly provided by Mitsubishi Motors.
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