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How Police Story 3: Super Cop was received
1992 · Stanley Tong Gwai-Lai · Police Story 3: Super Cop on Sightlines
The arc
A hit in Hong Kong in 1992, it reached most Western viewers via the dubbed, re-scored 1996 Dimension release 'Supercop' riding the Rumble in the Bronx wave — and has since climbed from 'fun import' to routine placement on greatest-action-films-ever lists, its stock rising again with Michelle Yeoh's Oscar-era renaissance.
What’s debated
The evergreen fan take: Michelle Yeoh walks into Jackie Chan's own franchise and out-stunts him — plus the perennial sub-vs-dub fight over whether the American 'Supercop' cut butchered the original.
Its footprint
Yeoh's motorcycle leap onto a moving train is one of the most re-clipped stunts in action cinema, going viral all over again after Everything Everywhere All at Once — and Quentin Tarantino loudly championed the film's stunt work around its 1996 US release.
Where it stands
A 'you must see the last 20 minutes' staple of the action canon and a Letterboxd favorite, often ranked alongside Police Story 1 as the franchise peak.
Did you know? Michelle Yeoh, returning from a four-year acting retirement, performed the motorcycle jump onto a moving train herself — despite not knowing how to ride a motorcycle before the shoot — and her crash outtakes run over the end credits.