"The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan's breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case's star witness (Chinese cinema legend Brigitte Lin) from retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography – including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and shattered glass – POLICE STORY set a new standard for rock-'em-sock-'em mayhem that would influence a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood." Janus Films

"U might say that Chaplin and Keaton were the masters of screen comedy and nobody else could ever touch them, but unlike Jackie Chan, Chaplin and Keaton never Moonwalked cow shit off their converse. Forget Herzog, Jackie Chan is a true soldier of cinema; every outtake in the blooper reel is just him getting escorted to the hospital. few others have given so much for CINEMA." nadine, Letterboxd (2018)

"Jackie Chan's first contemporary cop thriller, in which he plays a hot-tempered inspector framed for murder by a vengeful drug lord, proved that he was willing to pull out all the stops – from carrying out a bit of slapstick with two telephones to trashing an entire shopping mall. A breathless adrenaline rush full of twisted bumpers and broken ribs, and with what might be a record-high ratio of broken glass per minute, POLICE STORY is viewed by many as Chan's greatest achievement and a milestone in the Hong Kong canon." New York Asian Film Festival 2013

"It's one of the great 1980s action films. It's also one of the _most_ 1980s action films. ... But – as is the case with most memorable comedies, as well as most memorable thrillers – the excellence of POLICE STORY has nothing to do with what kind of movie it is, and everything to do with how it's executed. Like most of Chan's signature films, this one is driven by his ingenuity as an athlete, stunt choreographer, and director." Matt Zoller Seitz, rogerebert.com (2018)