Ging chat goo si 3: Chiu kup ging chat (1992)

Director:

Stanley Tong

Writers:

Edward Tang (characters)
Edward Tang (written by) ...
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Release Date:

26 July 1996 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller | Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

There's never a cop around when you need one, but when this cop's around, all you need is one.

Plot:

A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Drug Lord | Undercover | Police | Violence

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Jackie Chan	...	Insp. Chan Ka Kui
Michelle Yeoh	...	Insp. Jessica Yang, Director of INTERPOL (as Michelle Khan)
Maggie Cheung	...	May
Kenneth Tsang	...	Chaibat (as Ken Tsang)
Wah Yuen	...	Panther
Bill Tung	...	'Uncle' Bill Wong
Josephine Koo	...	Cheng Wen Shi, Chaibat's Wife
Kelvin Wong	...	Peter (as Wong Siu)
Philip Chan	...	Insp. Y.K. Chen
Ken Lo	...	Chaibat's man (as Lowei Kwong)
Lieh Lo	...	The General (as Lit Law)
Wai Shum
Yee San Hon
Sze Tsuen Wai
Tuan Wai-Lun
Wong Yue Man
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mars	...	Panther's Man (uncredited)
Kim Penn	...	Blonde Gunwoman (uncredited)

Directed by
Stanley Tong

Writing credits
Edward Tang		(characters)
Edward Tang		(written by) and
Fibe Ma		(written by) and
Lee Wai Yee		(written by)

Produced by
Jackie Chan	....	executive producer
Willie Chan	....	producer
Leonard Ho	....	executive producer
Edward Tang	....	producer

Original Music by
Mac Chew
Jenny Chinn
Jonathan Lee

Cinematography by
Ardy Lam		(as Lam Kwok Wah)

Film Editing by
Kar Fei Cheung
Peter Cheung		(as Cheung Yiu Chung)

Production Design by
Oliver Wong		(as Yui Man Wong)

Art Direction by
But Yiu Kwong

Makeup Department
Shiu-Lin Lo	....	makeup artist
Law Kar Wei	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Lloyd Chao	....	post-production supervisor
Mario Landeros	....	post-production supervisor
Peggy Lee	....	production manager
Barbie Tung	....	production supervisor
Venus Wong	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ken Chan	....	assistant director
Johnny Lee	....	assistant director
Bo Shan Lo	....	assistant director
Kwok Wing Yip	....	assistant director

Art Department
Stanley Tong	....	martial arts choreographer

Sound Department
Beth Bergeron	....	supervising adr editor
Paul Berolzheimer	....	sound effects editor
Dean Beville	....	supervising sound editor
Peter S. Carlstedt	....	foley mixer (as Peter Carlstedt)
Thom 'Coach' Ehle	....	stereo sound consultant: Dolby
Stephanie Flack	....	adr editor
Greg Hedgepath	....	sound editor
William Jacobs	....	sound effects
Doc Kane	....	adr mixer
Jeffrey Kaplan	....	adr editor
Patricio A. Libenson	....	sound recordist
Christian P. Minkler	....	additional sound mixer (as Christian Minkler)
Sergio Reyes	....	sound re-recording mixer
Joan Rowe	....	foley artist
Sean Rowe	....	foley artist
B. Tennyson Sebastian II	....	sound re-recording mixer
Charles Ewing Smith	....	sound effects editor
D. Chris Smith	....	sound effects editor
Scott Weber	....	foley mixer
Bob Wishnefsky	....	assistant sound editor

Stunts
Mars	....	stunts
Stanley Tong	....	stunt double: Jackie Chan
Ming-Sing Wong	....	action choreographer (as Sam Wong)

Camera and Electrical Department
Perry Ho	....	focus puller

Casting Department
Barbara Harris	....	adr voice casting

Editorial Department
Gary Burritt	....	negative cutter
Rod Dean	....	editorial consultant
Paul Martinez	....	assistant editor
William Pine	....	color timer (as Bill Pine)

Music Department
Peter Afterman	....	music consultant
Craig Pettigrew	....	music editor
Scott Pettigrew	....	assistant music editor
Ray Santamaria	....	music supervisor
Ronny Vance	....	additional music consultant
Robert Scott Crane	....	music engineer (uncredited)

Other crew
Man-Ching Chan	....	action choreographer
Karen Huie	....	dialect coach
Jim Lau	....	adr voice
Richard Potter	....	production executive
Andrew Rona	....	production executive
Ailen Sit	....	action choreographer (as Chun-Wai Sit)
Tang Tak Wing	....	action choreographer
Garson Yu	....	title designer

Production Companies

• Golden Harvest Company
• Golden Way Films Ltd.

Distributors

• Golden Harvest Company (1992) (Hong Kong) (theatrical)
• Media Asia Distribution
• Alliance Communications Corporation (1996) (Canada) (as "Supercop") (dubbed)
• Criterion Collection, The (1997) (USA) (VHS)
• Criterion Collection, The (1997) (USA) (laserdisc)
• Dimension Films (1996) (USA) (dubbed)
• Dimension Home Video (1998) (USA) (DVD)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2000) (Netherlands) (VHS) (as "Supercop")
• VPS Film-Entertainment GmbH

Other Companies

• Cine Art Laboratory  film processing
• Filmtech Camera Services  equipment provided by (as Technovision Serviced by Filmtech)
• Salon Films  equipment provided by (as Salon Films Equipment Rental)
• Showreel Film Facilities  sound post-production

Also Known As:

Jing cha gu shi III: Chao ji jing cha (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Police Story 3 (UK)
Police Story 3: Super Cop (Hong Kong: English title)
Supercop (USA)

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence.

Runtime:

95 min | USA:91 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | English | Mandarin | Malay | Thai

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 (video premiere) | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Filming Locations:

Canton, China

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Trivia:

Ken Tsang was doubled by director Stanley Tong himself for the helicopter stunt towards the finale. As a result, Tong broke his shin and can be seen sporting crutches and a cast during the film's outtakes/credits.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Even if only idling, real helicopter rotor blades would probably shatter, rather than bending if they hit a solid object.

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.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Torque (2004)

Soundtrack:

HARRY THE DOG

One of the best Hong Kong Martial Arts Buddy films ever - Yeoh is terrific!

I've never really been a great fan of Jackie Chan, often feeling that he somewhat downgrades the true force & meaning of pure martial arts. Instead he turns it into a caricature mixed with lots of excessive special effects such as flying through plate glass windows or jumping over cars on a motorbike.

I prefer the more natural, aethetic Bruce Lee when it comes to studied martial arts. He took the art far more seriously and didn't take it to extremes just for the sake of another "gee whiz" effect.

HOWEVER.....

Jackie Chan DOES take his art just as seriously, (although not in a spiritual sense), this is proved by the number of near-death accidents he has received for the sake of his art over the years. He doesn't use stunt doubles very often and spends hours & hours going over potentially lethal special effects before finally performing them for us.

Police Story 3 is a superior Chan product, much better than his paper-thin stories as of late (although this could be down to the heavy Hollywood influence that perpetrates most of the latter films, and IMHO he is worse off for it).

PS3 is no different from his earlier films although on this occasion he has a more equally efficient lead in Michelle Yeoh, as his Chinese army partner.

Yeoh is a perfect foil for the extroverted yet dumb Chan. She screams screen presence, and her beautiful face belies her hidden deadly martial arts skills. And more significantly she, like Chan, very rarely uses stunt-doubles. (Best example is her jump onto a moving train while riding a motorcycle. Previously a stunt-double tried to do this but failed, ending up with a broken leg. But then Yeoh tried it and hey, perfect jump!)

Together they bring a more spirited edge to a rather humdrum story of drug traffiking. Chan isn't allowed to wallow in his ego because Yeoh is never far behind to push him out the way. The "buddy" chemistry works surprisingly well, perhaps because we have a woman who is truly independent and can definitely look after herself, thank you very much.

Chan does his usual stunts and his martial arts are good enough to get by with, although he is becoming just a tad predictable with more & more extravagant stunts for every new film. Which goes back to my earlier argument that he should really concentrate on the more natural side of his art and push all these boring pyrotechnics into the corner and let the character drive the story rather than the action sequences.

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