YMMV / Police Story

• Awesome Music: Hero Story, the theme to Police Story, was a Breakaway Pop Hit in Hong Kong, and was used in recruitment advertising for the Hong Kong police force.
• Complete Monster: 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.
• Funny Moments:
  • The entire sequence where Ka-Kui attempts to answer multiple distress phone calls at the police station while trying to eat his lunch.
  • During the courtroom sequence, where Ka-Kui attempts to play a tape recording from the witness, to less-than-successful results.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Like many of Jackie Chan's films, Police Story was a box office success in Japan and South Korea. It was also a surprise hit in Hungary when it was released there in 1988.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A Hidden Mickey slipped into this movie (specifically on Chan's red alarm clock) years before Jackie Chan helped dub Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Mulan into Chinese.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • The entire mall fight in the first film, particularly the slide down the lightbulb pole, which ended up giving Jackie second degree burns and a broken pelvis.
  • For the second film, there is the 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.
• Older Than They Think: 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 My Lucky Stars trilogy, the first movie which pre-dates the original Police Story by two years.
• Retroactive Recognition: Sean Lau Ching-wan (best known for his role in the Running Out of Time (1999) movies) plays an unnamed police investigator in the second film.