Jackie Chan (“Rush Hour”, “Drunken Master”) directs and stars in this great mixture of non-stop action and comedy. This is most certainly one of Chan’s most famous movies as it features the extraordinary scene where he hangs on a moving bus with an umbrella (he really did that) and this is the movie that features the stunt that temporarily paralyzed Chan.

In “Police Story”, Chan stars as police officer Ka Kui, who is responsible for the arrest of a major drug lord and his companions. Ka Kui becomes a role model for the police force and has to protect a witness until her court appearance. Ka Kui is then framed for murder and must break the rules in order to prove his innocence resulting in one of Chan’s most action-packed finales.

Jackie Chan is decent as Ka Kui. Jackie Chan will never be considered great at delivering lines but he makes that up by giving us some truly great choreography. Maggie Cheung (“Hero”, “Clean”) is okay as Ka Kui’s girlfriend May. Brigitte Lin is okay as the witness Ka Kui must protect. The rest of the cast are quite bad and I think that the dialog for the characters is rather weak.

“Police Story” features great humour as well as great action, a trademark Chan has, and he rarely fails to deliver. For fans of action movies, you’ll eat this up as there are car chases, shootouts, hand-to-hand combat and daring stunts that only Jackie Chan could pull off. Although it may not have great acting (not that most action movies do), a massive Hollywood budget or the greatest plot (again not that most action movies do), “Police Story” delivers the goods and it is a great big, dumb, fun movie and that’s something many action movies can only hope to be.