Saturday, January 18, 2020

Supercop (1992)

Jackie Chan is "Kevin" a Hong Cop who partners with a Red Chinese inspector (Michelle Yeoh) in an undercover operation to infiltrate a group of drug runners and take down their leader. Technically this is the 3rd of Chan's "Police Story" movies but "Supercop" is its Chinese subtitle and name under which it was market in the U.S.. They sure like the term "supercop" in this movie, it is used 10 times in actual film dialogue and 28 times in the closing credits song. This is a fun distraction of a film, with a number of good action set pieces, but the stand out one is a long chase sequence at the end that starts off on the street, then migrates in part to a helicopter and finally ends on top of a train. A fair amount of South East Asia nation hopping in this, though not every scene was actually filmed in the country where it was set. I thought it was interesting to see a depiction of early 1990's Communist China on screen again, its was a lot closer to Mao's old China then to the economic power house it is today. **1/2.

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