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Bookmark this pageFirst Strike (1996)
Director: Stanley Tong
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A lot more fun than the Bond movies it gets into bed with, this sprawling action-adventure (nominally No 4 in Jackie Chan's Police Story series) shuttles from Hong Kong to the Ukraine and on to Australia for a climactic fight under water amid real live sharks. The McGuffin is the usual stolen nuclear warhead, but the stunts are the movie's raison d'être: a chase/shoot-out up a snowy mountain, immersion in an icy lake, a tussle on the outside of a tall building, a fight with improvised weapons including an aluminium step-ladder. The highpoint is Chan singing 'I Will Follow Him' while stripping at gunpoint. Watch out for substantial differences between the original Chinese version and the re-edited, dubbed US version.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Stanley Tong
Producer: Barbie Tun
Cast: Jackie Chan, Jackson Lau, Annie Wu, Bill Tung, Jouri Petrov, Grishajeva Nonna full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 107 mins
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