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Chan portrays a Hong Kong police officer contracted by the CIA and a Russian intelligence organisation to retrieve a stolen nuclear warhead. On the way, he is attacked, assaulted, framed for murder and forced to defend himself in the only way he can...Product Identifiers
ProducerBarbie Tung
EAN5017239190070
eBay Product ID (ePID)3944489
Product Key Features
ActorChen Chun Wu, Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou
Film/TV TitleJackie Chan's First Strike
DirectorStanley Tong
LanguageEnglish
Run Time80 Mins
Aspect Ratio2.35 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year1999
FeaturesWidescreen
GenreGeneral, Action & Adventure
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate12A/12
Country/Region of ManufactureHong Kong
ComposerJ. Peter Robinson
Production DesignerOliver Wong
ReviewsNew York Times - ...Euphorically frothy....Talk about good, clean fun: here it is..., Variety - ...[A] combination of energy, invention and humor....There's also plenty of Chan's signature acrobatic martial-arts wizardry to satisfy fans..., USA Today - ...There's definitely more than three rings' worth of death-defying feats, high-flying slapstick and even a few well-trained animal acts...
Additional InformationIn director Stanley Tong's action-packed film, martial arts megastar Jackie Chan (as a Hong Kong police officer named Jackie) battles on land, in the air, and underwater in his efforts to help both the CIA and a Russian intelligence agency retrieve a stolen Ukrainian nuclear warhead. Sent on an easy tailing job, Jackie gets more than he bargained for and is soon fighting for survival on a frozen mountaintop against gun-toting baddies on skis and snowmobiles. Luckily the chase sends him to warm Australia, but danger still comes at Jackie from all angles--including sharks from below. As with other scintillating Tong-Chan partnerships, FIRST STRIKE features classic Chan-style slapstick comedy and balletic fight sequences, including an unforgettable warehouse brawl in which his only allies are a stepladder and a broomstick. Chan's already incomparable legend as a daredevil stuntman is fortified by a virtually unbroken string of dangerous acrobatics and by the news, upon the film's release, that its star contracted severe hypothermia after filming a plunge into an ice-glutted lake.
ScreenwriterElliott Tong, Greg Mellott, Stanley Tong, Nick Tramontaine
Movie/TV TitleJackie Chan's First Strike
EditorPeter Cheung, Chi Wai Yau
Director of PhotographyJingle Ma