THE POLICE STORY TRILOGY 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray LIMITED EDITION [2022]

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The 4K transfers don’t always have quite the pop of detail that the very best of the format can deliver, but make no mistake, these films look better here than they likely ever have. The picture is incredibly clean and detail is often spectacular. Even compared with the blu-ray releases (not included with this set), wide shots reveal a wealth of sharp detail that makes the stunt work look even more incredible and the explosions even more vivid. Extended Version – Brand new audio commentary with Asian film experts Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) and F.J. DeSanto UHD Blu-ray presentations of all three films across 3 Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)

Picture: 2160p (2.35:1 aspect ratio) (theatrical) ( Police Story and Police Story 3), (Extended cut) ( Police Story 2) / 1080p (2.35:1 aspect ratio) (American cut) ( Police Story and Police Story 3), (theatrical and Export cut) ( Police Story 2) Sound: Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Cantonese LPCM 1.0 , English LPCM 1.0 (theatrical),English LPCM 1.0, Cantonese LPCM 1.0 (American cut) ( Police Story) / Cantonese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Cantonese LPCM 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (Extended cut), Cantonese Dolby Digital 1.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1 (theatrical), Cantonese Dolby Digital 1.0, English Dolby Digital 1.0 (export cut) ( Police Story 2) / Cantonese Dolby Atmos, Cantonese LPCM 2.0 Stereo (home video mix), Cantonese LPCM 1.0 (original mix), English LPCM 1.0 (export dub) (theatrical) (Police Story 3), English Dolby Digital 5.1, Cantonese Dolby Digital 1.0 (American cut) ( Police Story 3)This leads to Ka-Kui becoming Salina’s bodyguard, much to the chagrin of her and Ka-Kui’s long-suffering girlfriend May (Maggie Cheung). Ka-Kui manages to fight off the various crims sent to shut her up, but loses Salina, which means a desperate attempt to find her and put the bosses behind bars. On September 26, 2022, UK label Eureka is releasing the Police Story Trilogy on 4K UHD (Region Free). In addition, they’re also releasing Police Story 3: Supercop on standalone Blu-ray. Police Story 3: Supercop (dir. Stanley Tong, 1992) – Action superstar Michelle Yeoh ( Everything Everywhere All at Once) joins the series as Inspector Yang Chien-Hua, who teams up with Chan Ka-Kui to take down an international drug ring. With some of the most outrageous stunt sequences ever committed to film, Police Story 3: Supercop is an action masterpiece that must truly be seen to be believed.

This sees one of the classic stunts in cinema history as the chase for Tao continues and some of Chan’s classic stunts. POLICE STOR Y 3: SUPERCOP (1992) 4K (2160p) UHD presentation of the original Hong Kong theatrical cut [96 mins] from a brand new restoration of the original film elements The action in the first hour is spectacular. Fights in a restaurant and a playground are genuinely jaw-dropping displays of what Chan and his stunt team could do with props and their environment. The gags are endlessly inventive, and a running joke about the lead goon getting his glasses repeatedly broken is very funny in a Looney Tunes kind of way, which also fits the manic speed of the choreography (helped, of course, by some undercranking).I am perhaps unusual among Western viewers, in that I’ve only ever seen this film in its uncut version, which here receives its first English friendly release, to my knowledge, since the Hong Kong Classics VHS. It is better known simply as Supercop, in the US cut released by Miramax, which stripped it of the context of its connection to the series. Ultimately, that’s probably okay. Unlike the previous film, Police Story 3 doesn’t ask Ka-kui to deal with the ramifications of his last adventure, and it takes him out of his usual environment, sending him on a special mission to partner with Interpol superintendent Yang (Michelle Yeoh) and take down a major drug dealer on the mainland. Police Story 2 is a rather strange beast at times. Pitching itself initially as a direct follow up, it leaves the consequences of the first film largely in the first act. A hard to swallow series of events mean that by the end of the first hour Ka-kui has been demoted, quit the force, been incidentally recruited to help out on a job and rehired to a plain clothes detective squad. It’s clunky, going round the houses to get somewhere it could quite easily have ended up with fewer convolutions. That said, the pace of the first act is good. Chan parcels out the action scenes well, and while he doesn’t treat the character of May any better, he finds a bit more for Cheung to do, including a stunt she does herself (the outtakes look painful). She also has a genuinely laugh out loud bit where she angrily follows him into the police station’s shower room. It was four years before Chan returned to the role of Ka-Kui, but when he did the rule of being bigger and better definitely applied, as Police Story 3: Super Cop takes a step up in every department and, overall, pulls it off admirably. Studios & Distributors: Golden Harvest Company | Golden Way Films Ltd. | Paragon Films Ltd. | Eureka Entertainment

Officer Chan Ka Kui (Chan) is a detective in the Hong Kong police force and a member of “Operation Boar Hunt” a task force brought together to take down drug/crime lord Chu Tao (Chor Yuen, The Seventh Curse, Hong Kong Graffiti). Headed by Supt. Raymond Li (Kwok-Hung Lam, Project A 2), he sets up a sting for Tao who is holed up in a shanty town just outside Hong Kong. However, Police Story does suffer a little in that the plot is so straightforward it is more-or-less non-existent, with writer/director Chan filling in the gaps with adrenaline-fuelled action, which is really what you go to these types of movies for, but it does get to a point where some of the action feels like padding. Nevertheless, such is Chan’s mastery of his craft that it is the sort of padding that isn’t as painful to sit through as some other movies from a similar ilk.Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes 31 seconds (theatrical), 1 hour 27 minutes 20 seconds (American cut) ( Police Story) / 2 hours 1 minute 53 seconds (Extended cut), 1 hour 45 minutes 44 seconds (theatrical), 1 hour 35 minutes 31 seconds (export cut) ( Police Story 2) / 1 hour 36 minutes 30 seconds (theatrical), 1 hour 31 minutes 10 seconds (American cut) ( Police Story 3)