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1.
"Shantytown Stakeout," Police Story
As far as action concerned, Police Story is his favorite movie. In the
beginning of the film, Kevin Chan (JC) and his fellow police men were
on an undercover stakeout in an attempt to nab a notorious mobster.
They set a trap along a winding mountain highway, taking up hidden positions
throughout a rickety village of old tin and wood shacks. When their
trap is sprung too soon, the mobsters try to escape by driving through,
and I mean through the village, smashing into, over and through the
buildings. Kevin Chan follows them in a car of his own. On the highway,
just minutes after the building-smashing, the mobsters hijack a double-decker
buss, Kevin grab an umbrella, runs after the buss, leaps and hook the
umbrellas handle onto the rim of an open window! Hanging desperately
onto the umbrella, he tries to pull himself into the bus, but is eventually
thrown clear. Scrambling down to a lower part of the highway, he draws
his pistol, order the speeding bus to stop... and it does, just inches
away form his body.
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2. "The
Great Glass Slide," Police Story
After a glass-shattering fight inside a shopping mall, Kevin Chan spots
his target several floors below, on the ground level of an open atrium.
The only way to get down from his perch in time to stop the target is
to take a flying leap into the air, grab ahold of a pole wrapped in
twinkling Christmas lights, and slide a hundred feet to the ground -through
a glass-and-wood partitio, onto the hard marble tile. Somehow he managed
to survive with a collection of ugly bruises... and second-degree burns
on the skin of his fingers and palms.
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3. "Clock
Tower Tumble," Project A
After a wild bicycle race through Hong Kong's back alleys, JC finds
himself high in the air, dangling from the hands of a giant clock face.
With no other way to get down than fall. He let go -and crash through
a series of cloth canopies before smashing into the ground.
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4. "An
Aerial Tour of Kuala Lumpur," Police Story III
Jackie Chan jumps from the roof of a building to a rope ladder swinging
from the bottom of a hovering helicopter. The crooks flying the chopper
try to knock him off the ladder by swinging him back and forth through
the air and into buildings, moving at high speed above the streets of
Malaysia's capital.
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5. "Going
Down...," Who Am I?
The sequence begins with Jackie Chan fighting it out with some thugs
on the top of a very tall building in Rotterdam, Holland. After battling
with them around the roof, and nearly falling off once or twice, he
finally take the quickest possible trip to the sidewalk below -sliding
down the side of the building, wich is slanted nearly 45 degrees, all
the way to the ground. Tewnty-one stories.
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6. "The
Walls Come Tumblin' Down" Project A II
After running down the face of a ceremonial facade that's in the process
of falling over, he narrowly escape being crushed by standing in the
right place at the right time -with his body going through an opening
in the facade as it crashes down right over him.
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7. "No
Way to Ride a Bus...," Police Story II
Another chase sequence -this time running along the tops of moving buses,
while narrowly dodging signs and billboards that pass overhead and around
him. At the end of the chase, he leaps through a glass windows... Unfortunately,
he chose the wrong window as his target, and instead of hitting prop
glass, he smashes through a real one.
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8. "Down,
Down and Away," Armour of God Asian Hawk,
Jackie Chan, is racing to get away from angry natives. (He's just stolen
a priceless religious artifact from them, so they have a good reason
to be angry). Over a cliff he goes... landing on top of a huge hot air
balloon, safe and sound.
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9. "Roller
Boggie," Winners and Sinners
Jackie's roller-skating on a crowded highway, being chased by villains.
The wildest part of the sequence has him rolling under a Volkswagen
Beetle, and then
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10.
"Cycle Thriller," Armour of God II:Operation Condor
After racing through the streets of Madrid on the back of a motorcycle,
he finds himself headed for the waterfront with nowhere to go but into
the sea. Luckily, he spots a cargo net hanging from a crane at the edge
of the docks -so he guns the engines and head full-speed towards the end
of the pier in a deadly game of chicken with his pursuers. He rides his
cycle off the pier and into the air, leaping up to grab hold of the net
at the very last minute. |