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Supercop

Original title: Ging chaat goo si III: Chiu kup ging chaat
  • 19921992
  • RR
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
22K
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POPULARITY
8,909
322
Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh in Supercop (1992)
A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.
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A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
22K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
8,909
322
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Stanley Tong
    • Writers
      • Edward Tang(characters)
      • Fibe Ma
      • Lee Wai Yee
    • Stars
      • Jackie Chan
      • Michelle Yeoh
      • Maggie Cheung
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Stanley Tong
    • Writers
      • Edward Tang(characters)
      • Fibe Ma
      • Lee Wai Yee
    • Stars
      • Jackie Chan
      • Michelle Yeoh
      • Maggie Cheung
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 76User reviews
    • 46Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 4 nominations

    Videos3

    Trailer
    Trailer 1:57
    Trailer
    Michelle Yeoh in 4 Roles: From Motorcycle Stunts to Hot Dog Hands
    Clip 3:49
    Michelle Yeoh in 4 Roles: From Motorcycle Stunts to Hot Dog Hands
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    Jackie Chan in Supercop (1992)
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    Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh in Supercop (1992)
    Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh in Supercop (1992)
    Jackie Chan in Supercop (1992)
    Michelle Yeoh in Supercop (1992)
    Michelle Yeoh in Supercop (1992)
    Michelle Yeoh in Supercop (1992)
    Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh in Supercop (1992)
    Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh at an event for Supercop (1992)

    Top cast

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    Jackie Chan
    Jackie Chan
    • Insp. Chan Ka Kui
    Michelle Yeoh
    Michelle Yeoh
    • Insp. Jessica Yang - Director of INTERPOL
    • (as Michelle Khan)
    Maggie Cheung
    Maggie Cheung
    • May
    Kenneth Tsang
    Kenneth Tsang
    • Chaibat
    • (as Ken Tsang)
    Wah Yuen
    Wah Yuen
    • Panther
    Bill Tung
    Bill Tung
    • 'Uncle' Bill Wong
    Josephine Koo
    • Cheng Wen Shi - Chaibat's Wife
    Kelvin Wong
    Kelvin Wong
    • Peter
    • (as Wong Siu)
    Philip Chan
    Philip Chan
    • Insp. Y.K. Chen
    Ken Lo
    Ken Lo
    • Chaibat's Man
    • (as Lowei Kwong)
    Lieh Lo
    Lieh Lo
    • The General
    • (as Lit Law)
    Wai Shum
    Wai Shum
    • Drug Lord #1 at Meeting
    Yi-Sheng Han
    Yi-Sheng Han
      Sze Tsuen Wai
      Wai-Lun Tuan
      Wong Yue Man
      Chi-Ming Lau
      Chi-Ming Lau
      • PRC Capt. Chen Hsiang Tung
      Wai-Man Tam
      • Scar Chiang
      • Director
        • Stanley Tong
      • Writers
        • Edward Tang(characters)
        • Fibe Ma
        • Lee Wai Yee
      • All cast & crew
      • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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      Storyline

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      Did you know

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      • Trivia
        Michelle Yeoh performed her own motorbike jump stunt.
      • Goofs
        When Inspector Yang lands on the red sports car driven by Kevin she breaks the windshield removing the top part of the windshield frame and rearview mirror. In the next shots the frame and rearview mirror are back in place. The windscreen frame that breaks is a clearly-visible dummy breakaway fitted in place of the Midget Mk II's normal frame; it is taller than the real windscreen. Also, the Midget Mk II was fitted with triplex-type safety glass which has a middle layer of clear sealant and would break but not fly into pieces, and the early Midgets were fitted with light-alloy windscreen pillars that would most likely snap near the base under that sort of impact.
      • Quotes

        Chan Ka Kui: This is hard to memorize.

        Insp. Jessica Yang: You're a super cop, and you have no memory?

        Chan Ka Kui: It's the first I came across this situation. If I were you, could you recite everything in one go? I'm Chan Ka Kui, born July 4th, 1958. I joined the Royal HK Police in 1981. 19 - ...

        Insp. Jessica Yang: 1984, promoted to trainee inspector. Height: 5'10", weight: 73 kilos, blood type: AB. I'm nothing special. I've memorized your background.

      • Alternate versions
        In 1996, Dimension released it in the US with a number of changes, including a new soundtrack (music; sound effects; English dubbing - with participation from Chan and Yeoh), new opening/closing credits and the removal of over 8 minutes of footage:
        • Meeting between Hong Kong Police and the DEA
        • Various shots of the meeting between Chan and his Hong Kong superiors
        • Some shots of Chan and the sign he is observing as he arrives in China
        • Chan and Yang talking across the yard
        • Some shots of Chan upside-down on the tree
        • Some shots before and after the escape from the prison camp
        • Some shots of the scene at night in which Panther is reunited with friends
        • Chan noticing a sign and directing the men to his family home
        • Opening shots of the marketplace, including the endangered animals being sold
        • Brief shot of a man with a taser at the marketplace
        • Much of Chan and Yang's first encounter with Chaibat, including a girl being injected with heroin and her subsequent death from overdose
        • Various shots at the resort and inside the hotel
      • Connections
        Edited into Traces of a Dragon (2003)
      • Soundtracks
        What's Love Got to Do with It
        Written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle

        Performed by Warren G featuring Adina Howard

        Produced by Warren G

        Warren G appears courtesy of G-Funk/Rush Associated Labels Recordings

        Adina Howard appears courtesy of Mecca Dawn Entertainment/Eastwest Records/Elektra Entertainment Group

      User reviews76

      Review
      Top review
      8/10
      Astonishing stuntwork and action set-pieces!!
      POLICE STORY III - SUPER COP (Jing Cha Gu Shi III: Chao Ji Jing Cha)

      (USA: Supercop)

      Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Technovision)

      Sound format: Mono

      Police officer Chan Ka-kui (Jackie Chan) goes undercover within a criminal gang whose millionaire boss (Kenneth Tsang) plans to dominate the Asian heroin trade.

      Though co-scripted by Chan regular Edward Tang (also responsible for the first two entries in the "Police Story" franchise), POLICE STORY III - SUPER COP is slightly darker in tone than its immediate predecessors and offers a much more streamlined combination of comedy, drama and action. This shift in focus was occasioned by the hiring of stuntman-turned-director Stanley Tong (RUMBLE IN THE BRONX, CHINA STRIKE FORCE, etc.), who keeps a tight rein on the film's narrative excesses whilst indulging some of the most spectacular action set-pieces ever filmed, *anywhere*.

      Nothing in the first half of the movie - Chan's fight with gymnastic beauty Sam Wong at a mainland police training center; his initiation into Tsang's criminal gang by helping the villain's brother (Yuen Wah) escape from a prison work camp; a battle with police in a crowded marketplace, etc. - can prepare viewers for the *astonishing* climactic confrontation between Good and Evil, involving a series of hair-raising car stunts, Chan dangling (apparently unassisted) from a rope-ladder beneath a helicopter as it swings *high* above the streets of Kuala Lumpur (!), and the final hand-to-hand battle on top of a speeding train, upon which the aforementioned helicopter has become precariously entangled - and not a CGI shot in sight! Filmed with breathtaking gusto by artists working at the top of their game, this is commercial cinema at its most astounding (check the outtakes during the final credits, in which various participants come perilously close to serious injury or *death* during filming!).

      Maggie Cheung makes another extended cameo appearance as Chan's beleaguered girlfriend, though the film is stolen clean away by Michelle Yeoh (billed as 'Michelle Khan' in some prints) as a mainland policewoman who assists Chan in his undercover operation, and who proves to be Chan's equal during the fast and furious combat sequences (the character proved popular enough to warrant her own spin-off feature, PROJECT S, in 1993!). Easily the best of the "Police Story" series to date, and one of the most memorable efforts to emerge from HK in the last fifty years, POLICE STORY III - SUPER COP is a winner. Followed by FIRST STRIKE (1996).

      As usual, the movie was re-edited and rescored for its 1996 US debut under the title SUPERCOP. That version is missing only a few minutes of material, but should be avoided nonetheless.

      (Cantonese and Mandarin dialogue)
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      Details

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      • Release date
        • July 4, 1992 (Hong Kong)
      • Country of origin
        • Hong Kong
      • Official site
        • Official site
      • Languages
        • Cantonese
        • English
        • Mandarin
        • Malay
        • Thai
      • Also known as
        • Police Story 3: Supercop
      • Filming locations
        • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
      • Production companies
        • Golden Harvest Company
        • Golden Way Films Ltd.
      • See more company credits at IMDbPro

      Box office

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      • Budget
        • $900,000 (estimated)
      • Gross US & Canada
        • $16,270,600
      • Opening weekend US & Canada
        • $5,503,176
        • Jul 28, 1996
      • Gross worldwide
        • $16,270,600
      See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

      Technical specs

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      • Runtime
        1 hour 31 minutes
      • Color
        • Color
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.39 : 1

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