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* RetroactiveRecognition: Sean Lau Ching-wan (best known for his role in the Film/RunningOutOfTime movies) plays an unnamed police investigator in the second film.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Sean Lau Ching-wan (best known for his role in the Film/RunningOutOfTime ''Film/RunningOutOfTime1999'' movies) plays an unnamed police investigator in the second film.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Sean Lau Ching-wan plays an unnamed police investigator in the second film.

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* RetroactiveRecognition: Sean Lau Ching-wan (best known for his role in the Film/RunningOutOfTime movies) plays an unnamed police investigator in the second film.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Jackie Chan playing a badass cop dragged into all sorts of wacky hijinks and requiring to fight his way out has been done in the ''Film/MyLuckyStars'' trilogy, the first movie which pre-dates the original ''Police Story'' by two years.
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** The entire sequence where Kevin attempt to answer multiple phone calls to the police, while trying to eat his lunch, is played up for laughs.
** During the courtroom sequence, where Kevin tries to play a recording from the witness, first the tape began playing loud music that he taped over, then it plays several out-of-context statements from the witness that sounded like [[InnocentInnuendo sexual innuendo]].

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** The entire sequence where Kevin attempt Ka-Kui attempts to answer multiple distress phone calls to at the police, police station while trying to eat his lunch, is played up for laughs.
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** During the courtroom sequence, where Kevin tries Ka-Kui attempts to play a tape recording from the witness, first the tape began playing loud music that he taped over, then it plays several out-of-context statements from the witness that sounded like [[InnocentInnuendo sexual innuendo]].to less-than-successful results.
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** For the third film, the entire helicopter sequence when Jackie is dangled on the ladder of a helicopter flying over Kuala Lumpur.

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** For the third film, the entire helicopter sequence when Jackie is dangled on the ladder of a helicopter flying over Kuala Lumpur.Lumpur.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Sean Lau Ching-wan plays an unnamed police investigator in the second film.

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The entire sequence where Jackie's character attempt to answer multiple phone calls to the police, while trying to eat his lunch, is played up for laughs.

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The entire sequence where Jackie's character Kevin attempt to answer multiple phone calls to the police, while trying to eat his lunch, is played up for laughs.laughs.
** During the courtroom sequence, where Kevin tries to play a recording from the witness, first the tape began playing loud music that he taped over, then it plays several out-of-context statements from the witness that sounded like [[InnocentInnuendo sexual innuendo]].
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The entire sequence where Jackie's character attempt to answer multiple phone calls to the police, while trying to eat his lunch, is played up for laughs.

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* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The entire mall fight, particularly the slide down the lightbulb pole, which ended up giving Jackie second degree burns and a broken pelvis.

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The entire mall fight, fight in the first film, particularly the slide down the lightbulb pole, which ended up giving Jackie second degree burns and a broken pelvis.pelvis.
** For the second film, there is the [[OutsideRide car surfing]] sequence, where Jackie jumps on the top of a truck and bus, then jump over and ducks under several overhanging store signs.
** For the third film, the entire helicopter sequence when Jackie is dangled on the ladder of a helicopter flying over Kuala Lumpur.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.

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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.Chinese.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The entire mall fight, particularly the slide down the lightbulb pole, which ended up giving Jackie second degree burns and a broken pelvis.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.
* IdiotPlot: {{Justified}} since it's mostly a comedy, but the story is basically about the Hong Kong police being ''terrible'' at protecting a key witness in a major drug trial and repeatedly lying to, insulting and endangering her through their incompetence, rather than just putting her under tight security in a safe house with multiple officers until the day of her testimony.

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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.
* IdiotPlot: {{Justified}} since it's mostly a comedy, but the story is basically about the Hong Kong police being ''terrible'' at protecting a key witness in a major drug trial and repeatedly lying to, insulting and endangering her through their incompetence, rather than just putting her under tight security in a safe house with multiple officers until the day of her testimony.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mAuj5uovtQ Hero Story]], the theme to ''Police Story'', was a BreakawayPopHit in Hong Kong, and was used in recruitment advertising for the Hong Kong police force.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Like many of Jackie Chan's films, ''Police Story'' is a success in Japan and South Korea. It is also a surprise hit in Hungary when it was released there in 1988.

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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Like many of Jackie Chan's films, ''Police Story'' is was a box office success in Japan and South Korea. It is was also a surprise hit in Hungary when it was released there in 1988.

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* CompleteMonster: From ''Police Story 2'', the unnamed, deaf-mute gang leader, named "Gabby" in the dub, is a vicious little martial arts master leading a group of bombers in order to blackmail a ransom out of the city. First planting a bomb in a crowding shopping mall, the gang leader intends to up his ransom demands to 20 million while also attempting to bomb a police station and a property company. He kidnaps the girlfriend of hero Ka-kui "Kevin" Chan before torturing Chan and sending him to collect the ransom, wearing an explosive vest, intending to kill him and take out witnesses anyways.

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* CompleteMonster: From ''Police Story 2'', the unnamed, deaf-mute gang leader, named "Gabby" in the dub, is a vicious little martial arts master leading a group of bombers in order to blackmail a ransom out of the city. First planting a bomb in a crowding shopping mall, the gang leader intends to up his ransom demands to 20 million while also attempting to bomb a police station and a property company. He kidnaps the girlfriend of hero Ka-kui "Kevin" Chan before torturing Chan and sending him to collect the ransom, wearing an explosive vest, intending to kill him and take out witnesses anyways. He also attempts to attack Chan even after the latter saves him from being set alight.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Like many of Jackie Chan's films, ''Police Story'' is a success in Japan and South Korea. It is also a surprise hit in Hungary when it was released there in 1988.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.

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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.Chinese.
* IdiotPlot: {{Justified}} since it's mostly a comedy, but the story is basically about the Hong Kong police being ''terrible'' at protecting a key witness in a major drug trial and repeatedly lying to, insulting and endangering her through their incompetence, rather than just putting her under tight security in a safe house with multiple officers until the day of her testimony.
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* CompleteMonster: From ''Police Story 2'', the unnamed, deaf-mute gang leader, named "Gabby" in the dub, is a vicious little martial arts master leading a group of bombers in order to blackmail a ransom out of the city. First planting a bomb in a crowding shopping mall, the gang leader intends to up his ransom demands to 20 million while also attempting to bomb a police station and a property company. He kidnaps the girlfriend of hero Ka-kui "Kevin" Chan before torturing Chan and sending him to collect the ransom, wearing an explosive vest, intending to kill him and take out witnesses anyways.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.

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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A Hidden WesternAnimation/{{Mickey| Mouse}} slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' into Chinese.

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