SunnyHello
Nice effects though.
LouHomey
From my favorite movies..
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Cody
One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
Leofwine_draca
Following on from the events in POLICE STORY 3, this typical action movie instead focuses on the returning character of Michelle Yeoh, here cast as the butt-kicking female lead instead of Jackie Chan. However, producers convinced Chan to show up for a cameo appearance, so that they could advertise this as a Jackie Chan movie and get more viewers by cheating the prospective audience. The cameo itself is utterly bizarre; Chan is in drag, dressed the same as Eric Tsang, and helps foil a jewellery store robbery. Don't ask. It's best to ignore this rather cringe-worthy moment and concentrate on the decent storyline instead. The film never really breaks any new boundaries but proves to be a worthwhile Hong Kong action film, packed with set-pieces, explosions, gunplay, and some fantastic martial arts. The result isn't always compelling but it makes for an easy, pleasurable viewing experience.Director Stanley Tong – fast becoming one of the most reliable directors of martial arts action in my mind, seeing as how he hasn't made a film I haven't liked as yet – handles the events well and spins a fairly complex story around a bunch of villains who are getting ready to break into a major bank and pull off a heist. The usual elements are here, from the burly American muscle to the dodgily-accented European villains and the heroic Chinese cops. The story spins from one explosive set-piece to another with little in the way to dull the story. One interesting aspect is that Michelle Yeoh's character is a former lover of the chief villain, however fans waiting for a showdown between the two martial arts superpowers will be disappointed as the finale screws this up.Otherwise the last twenty minutes of the film is just fine, a mini re-run of DIE HARD as Yeoh and her partner infiltrate a bank held hostage by a dozen bad guys and partake in some great martial arts fights with them. In particular the sequence in which Yeoh squares off against a guy easily twice her size is amazing stuff. Yeoh is on top form in the movie and gets to take part in some great stunts – usually involving major jumps from buildings – and strenuous fights. The supporting cast is generally impressive, with all major players putting in solid turns and a nice performance from Rongguang Yu as the two-faced villain and Dick Wei as a super-strong henchman. Bill Tung makes a cameo appearance again, the bad guys are suitably villainous and there's even time for a short car chase for the fans. Not a lot else needs to be said; this isn't brilliant viewing but it is very good and it certainly beats the heck out of similar American competition from the same year (ROBOCOP 3 anyone?).
Paul Magne Haakonsen
If you have seen Hong Kong movies from the early 1990s, then you will find yourself at home with "Project S" (aka "Chao ji ji hua"). This 1993 movie has every ingredient that were using in the Hong Kong action cinema in the early 1990s. But it is not a bad thing, because they had found a formula that worked quite well, and "Project S" is no exception.The story is about a criminal gang from mainland China doing a robbery in Hong Kong. And to close down the criminal activities and catch them, the Hong Kong police gets assistance from Hua, a highly decorated police officer from China.As with almost all movie from that era, there is a lot of action, gunfights and martial arts in this movie. And the action sequences were well executed and the martial arts well choreographed. One thing that was a bit bad was how poor everyone were at hitting targets with their firearms.The acting was good, and the cast list had some good names to it. As always, you never go wrong with Michelle Yeoh, and she delivers well in this movie. And for fans of the Hong Kong cinema then there were two grand cameos in the movie, and they are in drag nonetheless; you will see Jackie Chan and Eric Tsang. No kidding!"Project S" is a standard, if not generic, early 1990s Hong Kong action movie, but it is still an enjoyable movie to watch.
Michael-96
This film is being billed in the USA as a Jackie Chan flick. Don't buy into the hype - Jackie has a short (2 minutes approx.) cameo in a scene that makes little sense and is hardly tied in to the rest of the film. His presence in drag is unexplained, and worse still his voice has been dubbed by somebody who apparently spent two hours at the dentist's before filming, and was still under the effects of the anaesthetic - or at least it seems that way.The rest of the film is passable - some good shots of Hong Kong and Guangzhou, but some glaring plot holes as well. Nothing to write home about, but a fairly good performance from Michelle Yeoh at least brings this up to a 5 out of 10 effort.
iaido
Pretty bad. Apparently the makers of Supercop 2 (aka.Police Story 3) failed to remember the formula to a good action flick- constant action. The action here is far too brief and sporadic, at best, and there are a minimum of hair raising stunts. Instead, the movie gets mired down into too much plot and the stunts become negligible next to the boredom the film induces. One does not watch a Hong Kong action flick for the dramatic acting (which, by the way, Yeoh is remarkably stiff and in need of a cattle prod to wake her up). A far better Michelle Yeoh cop/gunplay and kung fu film is Royal Warriors, or just stick with Supercop (in HK- Police Story 2).The plot has Michelle and Rong Guang Yu (Iron Monkey, himself) as would be lovers set at odds by his turn to crime and, more likely, the fact that he gives her what appears to be a white, hospital, lab coat as a present. Anyway, they separate, and six months later she goes to the mainland where he is now, unknown to her, heading a paramilitary gang of thieves. It is all rather lackluster in plotting. Lovers on opposite sides of the law, some gun battles here and there, and two subplots involving a cop with a crush on her and a vengeful gang member, go nowhere. YAWN, YAWN. Jackie Chan appears midway through, obviously, pointlessly glued in for a brief star factor cameo. It is seriously screwed up, Jackie trying to be funny in complete drag, and ends up being hard to witness without wincing in pain at how horrible the whole thing is.They try to add some thrills here and there. Some wirework, but only when people are jumping down from great heights?, not in any fights. In one escape scene the criminals base jump(parachute) off the roof of a building, and, in another, they scale down the back of their hideout (if I had a hideout, I would think of something a little more convenient then having to go up to the roof and then slide down the back with ropes every time I had to escape. I dont know...maybe, a BACK DOOR?!!?). Stupid instead of exciting.The Dimension video dubbing is pretty awful. Yeoh dubs herself, and while her English is great (after all, she was educated in Britain), her natural voice is so deliberate, slow, and seemingly self conscious, that it is flat and annoying. The dubbing company should be strung up for the way they dub some of the characters, particularly Jackie Chan in his brief, weird cameo. They use downright stereotypical Asian accents. The Jackie dubber has him saying, "Freeze Po-Reez!"(Freeze, Police)and "I so sa-lee."(I'm so sorry) It is just insulting.Of note: I found myself bored enough, that I began noticing little details to entertain myself. One of witch was the fact that Michelle shows her European education by turning the pages of a Chinese magazine the wrong way (in China one reads right to left, but she flips through the pages the English way, reading left to right).