Get ready to mix martial arts with a surprisingly good buddy cop story as Jackie Chan (“Police Story”, “Mr. Nice Guy”) stars in “New Police Story”. This is a thrilling action movie that contains impressive stunts and a healthy dose of humour; this is Hong Kong’s answer to “Lethal Weapon”.

In “New Police Story”, the disgraced Inspector Chan (Chan) spends his days trying to drink himself to the grave for he cannot forgive himself after his team were brutally murdered by a gang of violent criminals. He is brought back in order to help catch the gang and finally redeem himself as he is paired with a rookie.

The first “Police Story” films came out in the 1980s and featured some spectacular stunts involving moving vehicles. Decades later, Chan can still deliver as we get some more great stunts the seem to pay homage to some of his earlier work. Chan once again masters combining fantastic stunts with creative fight choreography and comedy. The partner character is reasonably amusing. The thing that surprised me the most was the villains as they are actually fairly memorable. It’s such a shame that so many action movies forget to include memorable villains. The other actors do a good job as well.

I’d say that “New Police Story” is a really good entry in the series. If you are a fan of martial arts action movies or the police action movies then you really need to see this film. If you haven’t seen the other “Police Story” movies then it doesn’t really matter because this one doesn’t really have that much in connection with them. However, I do recommend seeing most of the other “Police Story” films as well as this one. If you’ve seen a lot of Jackie Chan movies and are looking out for another good one then I thoroughly have to recommend “New Police Story”.