Jackie Chan's First Strike
| Police Story 4: First Strike | |
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Original Hong Kong movie poster
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| Traditional | 警察故事4之簡單任務 |
| Simplified | 警察故事4之简单任务 |
| Mandarin | Jǐngchá Gùshì Sì zhi Jiǎndān Rènwu |
| Cantonese | Ging2 Chaat3 Gu3 Si3 Sei3 Zi1 Gaan2 Daan1 Yam6 Mou6 |
| Directed by | Stanley Tong |
| Produced by | Barbie Tung |
| Written by | Greg Mellott Elliot Tong Stanley Tong Nick Tramontane |
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| Music by | Nathan Wang |
| Cinematography | Jingle Ma |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung Yau Chi-Wai |
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| Distributed by | Golden Harvest New Line Cinema |
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese English |
| Box office |
Hong Kong: HK $57,518,795 United States: US $15,318,863 |
Police Story 4: First Strike (Chinese: 警察故事4之簡單任務, often released as Jackie Chan's First Strike) is a 1996 Hong Kong action film written and directed by Stanley Tong, starring Jackie Chan, Jackson Lou, Wu Chen-chun and Bill Tung. The film was released in Hong Kong on 10 February 1996.
Jackie reprises his role as Chan Ka-kui (also known in some versions as Jackie) yet again as a Hong Kong cop who works with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Later Ka-Kui realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.
The movie was shot partially in Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, where the last half of the movie is based. Chinatown, Brisbane in Fortitude Valley and Underwater World on the Sunshine Coast were used. The movie was shot in the months between August and November 1995.
To advertise First Strike, Jackie recorded the song 怎麼會 Zenme Hui and also made a music-video for it. As is typical with Chan's pictures, the US version does not feature the theme song.
Whilst working for the CIA, Chan Ka-kui (Jackie Chan) is assigned to follow leads of a nuclear smuggling case. He follows a woman named Natasha to Ukraine, when he realizes that she had been hiding vital information, Ka-kui calls for backup and she is later arrested. However, Natasha's partner is an unknown man, who turns out to be Jackson Tsui (Jackson Lou), a Chinese American nuclear scientist with CIA links, suspected of stealing a nuclear warhead. Ka-kui follows Tsui to a restricted area, and after a trap set by Tsui, the CIA agents together with Ukrainian authorities engage in battle. Ka-kui finds a briefcase which contained evidence from Tsui, but as he is chased by unknown forces, Ka-kui loses the briefcase as he falls into frozen waters.
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