I recognised the title and had seen the poster a few times, naturally starring one of the world's most famous martial artists I was interested to see it, no matter what rating the critics give it. Basically Insp. Jackie Chan Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) is the cop participating in some kind of sting operation on an international spy ring, he seems to be working for both the FBI and the Russians. One of the key spies, Jackson Tsui (Jackson Liu), manages to get away, and Jackie is the one ordered to catch and arrest him. What this leads to a is a journey across parts of the world, meeting up with the spy's sister Annie Tsui (Annie Chen Chun Wu) in Australia. Obviously along the way there are one or two fights where Jackie tries his best to fight back and stay alive, and in the end of course the case is solves after he has saved the day. Also starring Bill Tung as 'Uncle' Bill Wong, Yuri Petrov as Col. Gregor Yegorov, Nonna Grishaeva as Natasha, John Eaves as Mark and Terry Woo as Uncle Seven. Chan is obviously a good character, it is odd that he has to dub himself in a few scenes, many of the other actors are out of sync, the story is not the most engaging ever, in fact I lost track of what was going on, but there are some inventive fight sequences with Chan's cool stunt work, but apart from that I wouldn't really bother with this action thriller. Adequate!
Review of First Strike
