In Supercop, Jackie Chan plays Detective Kevin Chan, a decorated officer with the Hong Kong Police Department. When the opportunity arises to take on a dangerous undercover assignment, the fearless Chan jumps at the chance. Chan is sent to a Chinese prison camp to break out a gangster named Panther, who the police believe will be Chan's ticket to the underworld of Hong Kong drug trafficking. Panther's brother, you see, is the powerful crime lord Chaibat, a man who controls half of Southeast Asia's drug trade. The one thing Chan doesn't bank on, however, is a new partner--a female security director with the Chinese government (thesped by fellow Hong Kong box office champ Michelle Khan).

Supercop is clearly one of the more expensive Asian films on the market. Production value is slick. Locations hopscotch from Hong Kong to China to Malaysia, giving a wider panorama of Asian vistas than most Hong Kong shoot-'em-ups. Director Stanley Tong (who also directed Jackie's Rumble In The Bronx) goes for a little more testosterone in this one. There are a few Kung Fu fights, but mostly they have to make room for the unbelievable stunts and gonzo explosions. Supercop contains some of Jackie's flat-out best stunt work--including a climactic helicopter and train chase sequence that makes the ending of Mission: Impossible look like the candy-ass, Muppet Babies, Hollywood pretty-boy, "I'll sit in my trailer while some geek fakes it all up on a computer anyway" rip-off that it is.

For those of you who discovered Mr. Chan for the first time in this spring's Rumble In The Bronx, then I urge you to discover the second great thrill of your young lives. Her name is Michelle Khan and she kicks ass! Michelle is nearly as big a star in Asia as Jackie Chan. She's the first female to go toe-to-toe with Jackie, and she does her damnedest to keep up in the stunt department by leaping onto assorted speeding trucks and jumping a motorcycle onto a moving train. Yow! Stick around for the closing credit "bloopers" sequence to, once again, prove to yourself that there are no stunt doubles in any of this stuff.

On the other hand, if you're a major Jackie Chan freak like me, then you've probably already seen this film (originally titled Police Story III: Supercop). For those of you out there, I can only say this: If you haven't seen this stuff on the big screen, then you flat out haven't seen it. All of Jackie's films are larger than life and deserve to be seen in all their cinematic, ten-foot-high glory. The new vocal dubbing is about what you'd expect. When will they stop letting goofy British actors dub these things? Thankfully, the silliness wears off after a few minutes. As in Rumble In The Bronx, Jackie dubs his own voice, and after the first reel, there ain't much talking left to be done anyway.

If you need a little injection of that Asian action satisfaction, if you're itching for a dose of that patented Jackie Chan humor, if you can't live without a heaping helping of bug-eyed pyrotechnics, or if you just want a good reason to hate all those American movie stars who "do their own stunts," then catch Supercop. It's good for what ails ya.