Police Story 4: First Strike (), (released in
English-speaking markets as
Jackie Chan's First Strike), is a
1996 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film made in the typical humorous style of
Jackie Chan.
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 find 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
Zenmo Hui and also made music-video for it. As is typical with Chan's pictures, the US version does not feature the theme song.
Plot
Whilst working for the
CIA, Jackie
Chan Ka-Kui (played by
Jackie Chan) is assigned to follow leads of a nuclear smuggling case. He follows a woman named Natasha to Ukraine, when he realises that she had been hiding vital information. When Jackie calls for backup, she is arrested. However, Natasha's partner is an unknown man, who turns out to be Tsui (Jackson Lau), a Chinese American nuclear scientist with CIA links, suspected of stealing a nuclear warhead. Jackie follows Tsui...
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