| Crime Story (1993) |
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| Director: | Kirk Wong |
| Writers: | Teddy Chan and Cheung Chi-sing |
| Starring: | Jackie Chan, Kent Cheng, Ken Lo, Law Kar-ying, and Blackie Ko |
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The Plot: Inspector Eddie Chan (Jackie Chan) is a dedicated cop who happens to be going through a very rough period. Recently, he has been feeling the psychological effects of one particularly violent altercation that saw him shooting several men in self-defense. Life goes on for Chan, however, as he simply speaks with a psychiatrist on a regular basis while still hitting the streets and doing his job. He is ultimately assigned a case that seems as if it should be a walk in the park, look after a rich businessman that feels as if he is being stalked. It seems like a cut and dry case of paranoia without much of a foundation, but it turns out that the businessman wasn’t far off the mark. While Eddie investigates the situation, the businessman is kidnapped right out from underneath him. This leads Chan on a desperate search within the underworld to find the men responsible for this abduction, but unknown to Chan, one of the main culprits behind this horrible situation is a fellow detective played by Kent Cheng. Will Chan be able to fight the villains that are on the street as well as the ones hiding within his own precinct? |
| The Review |
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Crime Story makes a perfect pairing with The Protector, and it was a good call by Shout! Factory to throw these two on the same disc. Although I would consider this to be a much better Jackie Chan film, the two serve as interesting parallels from one another. Each movie shows a vastly different side of the regular Jackie Chan roles that we are accustomed to. Crime Story is probably the movie that Jackie had hoped The Protector would ultimately be. It finds the perfect blend between being his particular style of action and being a very adult thriller. Catapulted by excellent performances and lively characters, Crime Story already has way more going for it at the start of the project than The Protector ever had. Originally it seems that the film was the brainchild of Kirk Wong and was influenced by a real life kidnapping case. For whatever reason, Jackie was apparently very intrigued by the project, and audiences can maybe even see this film as him making retribution for his disappointment in the Protector fiasco. Ultimately, I do think that this turns out to be the perfect film for Jackie to stretch out and do new things with, and that’s partly because it finds the correct blend between the action and the dramatic.
| The Conclusion |
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