You won't be disappointed!

People are voting emotionally.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This, the fourth of the Police Story films, sees Hong Kong police officer Insp. Chan Ka Kui travelling from Hong Kong to The Ukraine to Russia and finally to Australia in pursuit of stolen nuclear material. In the English dubbed version of the film that I saw this character has been renamed Jackie. During the course of the film he will have to fight with heavily armed men in the frozen mountains of The Ukraine, clamber around on the outside of a tall hotel while evading two Russian thugs, fight off a huge gang using a step ladder as a weapon and fight more Russians in an aquarium which also contains a deadly shark! He must also work out who he can trust as not everybody is quite what they seem.This film doesn't have quite as much action as the other films in the series that I've seen but what there was, was pretty good and it was clear that the budget was much higher as the action was far more explosive; involving the sort of skiing stunts and exploding helicopters one would expect in a Hollywood movie… in fact if it wasn't for the rather obvious dubbing I might have thought it was a Hollywood movie. Jackie Chan does a great job in the lead role; providing the fantastic mix of action and comedy that fans have come to expect. The supporting cast were very much secondary to Jackie Chan but seemed to do a reasonably job; not hearing the actors actual voices does of course make it hard to judge them fairly. The plot may seem like something out of a Bond film but this is no rip off; you'd never see Bond shivering in the cold or wearing 'koala undies'! If you like comedy action this is well worth seeing and as there is little to offend it is probably suitable for younger viewers too.

jackie chan's first strike is your typical jackie chan fare featuring all the brilliant fight scenes and breathetaking stunts one expects from the chanster. a big improvement over supercop while not as good as jackie chan's who am i, never the less this is perfect entertainment from start to finish as jackie chan is hired by the c.i.a and gets tangled in some dangereous stuff and people are not to be trusted, but hey jackie chan movies are rarely there for story lines, the storyline is just the excuse to have some great fight scenes and stunts and here first strike delivers. i am one of the biggest jackie chan fans in the uk i think anyway and have seen all his films, and even though first strike isn't one of his best it's a solid effort none the less.

This is the adventures of Bond's cousin from Hong Kong. Forget the name or the job (Insp. Chan Ka Kui), because this is the Bond formula without the sexual appetizers, the Sci-Fi toys, the huge sets, and the elegant suits. Unfortunately it got the same Bondy plot which's always too thin to be visible. Most likely they wrote and designed the Action firstly, then they looked to trivial matters like putting a story, any story, to fit that, or not ! Obviously Jackie was so desperate to achieve a First Strike in America. After the failure of (The Big Brawl - 1980), he had been forced to be a spoof of himself (The Cannonball Run - 1981), or Dirty Harry (The Protector - 1985), then they let him to be himself (Rumble in the Bronx - 1995), and all of these movies went wrong. Therefore why not to give the western audience what they used to have and mostly love. So here it is a Bond flick done by Chan, yet somehow inside his kind of worlds.But here, badly I think, you'll witness the abstract case of (Chan). Nothing here to watch but (Chan)'s action – very detached - sequences, and nothing disrupts (Chan) to perform his stuff and perfectly, however that's not satisfyingly perfect as a whole. I don't mean a lack of dramatic depth or something, (Shanghai Noon - 2000) is just pure fun and works fine, but here there is nothing else Chan in Action after Action, which wasn't that solidly made as cliffhanger after another ! The absence of some real thrill or comedy makes you want to sleep. No good music, acting, one-liners, or even one-liner ! Nothing is done as good as the certain sequences. You can watch it as 'The Boldest Action Scenes' show – Jackie Chan special episode, and never feel any difference !Despite how this cousin is nicer, how this Bond doing all the madly dangerous stunts by himself, or how it contains historical fearless stunts, I must admit the final result was so ridiculous. Compared to Bond movies it's less entertaining, and to Chan's worlds it's not funny. This non-movie kind of stacking action was at its best nothing but another round into Chan's own circus.. Which was quite tasteless this time.

This moniker wasn't a joke. This movie really proved it's point. Compared to "Rumble in the Bronx" and "Supercop", "Jackie Chan's First Strike" packed a major punch! All the sabotage, the espionage, Jackie Chan was really ready to rumble. Survive the biting cold seemed rough for Jackie, but he managed very well. Sometimes he character seemed to wonder who were the good guys and who were the bad caused some wonder. In the scene where he was heavily bugged, he didn't do bad on the old 60's song "I Will Follow You", and it was embarrassing when everyone saw his posterior, I would rather hide in a thorny bush, than to be seen nude myself, unless the women are driven wild by male nudity. Then there's the fight scene in the aquarium, where the sharks and sea urchins have their way with the victims. And most of all the ladders fight which is the most memorable of all scenes. I liked it all, the turnout, the plot and the choreography, this Jackie Chan movie is the tops. Rating 4 out of 5 stars.