Bundles two of Jackie Chan's best
Continuing with their Jackie Chan Double Feature collection, "Police Story" and "Police Story 2" are now together on one disc thanks to Shout! Factory. Being a huge Jackie Chan fan, these were two films that were already well established in this household. However, Shout! Factory did such a superb job with the last Jackie Chan Double Feature that bundled "Crime Story" and "The Protector" together that this suddenly became a necessity.
After revisiting "Police Story," there definitely doesn't seem to be much of any new material in the cut of the feature film. However, there are quite a few bonus features that may whet your appetite. There are a little over two minutes of Deleted Scenes that are mostly just an extra few frames here and there, an Alternate Ending that is mostly an extra 30-45 seconds compared to the original ending with some outtakes attached, an Extended Opening that revolves around Chan Ka Kui arriving to the police station from training and Kim's birthday,...
JACKIE CHAN CHANNELS BUSTER KEATON, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AND HAROLD LLOYD
Don McGregor
April 8, 2013
RIDING SHOTGUN
Over the years I have met various film directors who claim they'd studied the film-making of Buster Keaton and had been influenced by Keaton's 1920s cinema-language defining work and mind-warping, eye-boggling stunts.
Keaton's superb timing and physical form leapt from the screen as if he defied gravity and mortal injury, with grace to spare.
Jackie Chan has been quoted that Buster Keaton was a major influence to him in many of his films.
SHOUT Factory has just released two of Jackie's Police Story movies on one Blu-Ray!
In Police Story, alone, if you are familiar with Keaton's work, you can see that in Jackie's case he wasn't just talking words.
I can find moments in Police Story and Police Story 2 where Jackie displays not only his incredible, balletic actions, but shows the influence of not just Buster Keaton, but also Douglas Fairbanks and Harold...
Another great movie
I had been looking for both of these movies and to fine them both in one selection was great. Would like it better if there were two disks, let's be honest it cost very little for a disk, rather in a flip disk style.
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