That should be the original title of the movie that I know as "New police story". I liked it, it's a Jackie Chan movie, but with less laughing and more crying than usual. I don't know, maybe it was just me but I cried...
Jackie Chan is inspector Chan, a hero, a supercop, he never fails, until a new gang of robbers appears. Four boys and a girl heavily armed who rob banks and then wait for the police to come with the purpose of killing as many as they can, taking counts like in a game. Chan promises to catch them in three hours (... :-/...) but they knew he was coming. The gang set up a big trap. Chan is separated from his men, and one by one they are hurt and taken prisoner. The gang leader Joe (I think) - (Daniel Wu, handsome and cool) plays with him and then kills them all in front of him. The gang escapes and Chan is devastated, takes leave from work and starts drinking, a lot, and ignoring everything and everyone, even his fiancée (Charlie Yeung). He feels so guilty he can't forgive himself (he will discover later on that they were betrayed). He's lost and in pain, until one day a young man picks him up and helps him (that he wants it or not!).
This guy Cheng (Nicholas Tse) says he's his new partner and tries everything he can to get him back together. Slowly Chan starts working again, after Cheng tells him that one of the officers that died that day was his older brother. With the help of Sahsa (Charlene Choi), a girl who works in the police force as a technician, they find the gang: all rich boys. It won't be easy to stop them, and even Chan's girlfriend will be hurt (but she'll get better in the end and Chan will propose to her again :-D ).
A nice switch is when Chan finds out that Cheng is not who he said he was, he's not even a cop, but he cares a lot about Chan and in the end he will remember why: when Cheng was a little boy, his broke father stole some food for him and was killed by a truck while trying to escape. The boy is witness to it all, and sees Chan arriving and covering the body with his coat (the same one that Cheng now wears everywhere, only to leave it behind when his 'job of helping Chan' is done). Chan gave him food and words of comfort.
The final showdown is long and dramatic. The girl has already died, and the four boys are planning another cop-massacre when they see their parents entering the building. A boy runs to them and Joe kills him personally as a traitor, and he also accidentally injures the other two.
Obviously it had to end with Joe and Chan face to face, as it always happens in every action movie. Joe keeps on playing with Chan, threatening Cheng's life, when a lot of policemen and special forces surround them. Joe can't stop, he's not the common spoiled brat. He's ruined, broken inside. He never did it for the money, he wanted to kill cops because his father is a cop. The father who has beaten and humiliated him all his life. When he understands there is no getting out of the situation, with lots of weapons pointed at him and his father yelling what a disgrace he is, he chooses his escape: suicide by cop. He points his empty gun at Chan first and then at his father, and is twice shot in the chest. The end. Chan tries to save Cheng, until the firemen save them both. He then proposes again to his girlfriend who loves him deeply and Cheng goes away leaving his coat behind. Giving it back, in a way.
It was very dramatic, much tougher then I expected from a Jackie Chan movie. There isn't much to laugh about in this film, maybe once or twice, yes, but it is mostly dramatic. I don't remember ever seeing a Jackie Chan movie with so many deaths in it.
Let's not talk about the detail that Chan can shoot better firing his gun at random without even looking than those guys with their assault rifles...
A funny scene was when Chan and Cheng are imprisoned and Sahsa comes to free them, because her father is the guardian of their cell, and when they tell her 'do something', she can only think of one thing: she fakes crying "my dad told me to become a policeman and uphold justice but it was all a lie, I'll resign tomorrow" so the father gives a big sigh and goes to the bathroom giving them the keys :-p then the two of them escape trying not to be noticed but they make a lot of noises and everybody sees them but just pretends they haven't :-p
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