5.9 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Ye Liu, Tian Jing, Peiqi Liu, Yiwei LiuAction | 100% |
Foreign | 72% |
Crime | 3% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Mandarin: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Mandarin: Dolby Digital 2.0
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0
English
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
The Police Story franchise has been good to Jackie Chan, to put it mildly. If the first two outings, Police Story and Police Story 2, appeared domestically on Blu-ray in versions that were less than spectacular looking, they at least perhaps helped to reacquaint audiences with one of Chan’s earlier success stories, one which placed the venerable action hero in a series of escapades that provided both jolts of adrenaline and a fair supply of giggles along the way as well. Through the years several other Police Story films followed, with Supercop and New Police Story having been released domestically on Blu- ray. In what some curmudgeons may feel is one reboot too many, Police Story 2013 came along in its titular year providing little other than that very title to link it to the previous Police Story outings. Decidedly less whimsical and ostensibly at least grittier than earlier entries in the franchise, this film, which received a slight title revision to Police Story: Lockdown for its American theatrical exhibition, still offers Chan as a workaday cop, but this time the action is contained to what is almost a one set enterprise, with a hostage drama of sorts playing out as a clock both literally and figuratively ticks down.
Police Story: Lockdown is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Well Go USA with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.35:1. Shot digitally with the Arri Alexa, Police Story: Lockdown has a typically sharp and well defined image, but the palette never really pops in any meaningful way, save for a few passing moments. A lot of the film takes place within the subdued confines of the Wu Bar, and the film exploits a lot of tones in the slate gray to cool blue arena. Several other sequences are bathed in yellow hues, offering a kind of syrupy, fetid appearance. Close-ups offer abundant fine detail, including elements like Chan's increasingly cut up face. Within the context of some of the lighting and grading choices, the palette looks reasonably accurate and is always vividly saturated. A couple of quick interstitial elements have been tweaked fairly aggressively, with brief flashbacks to the suicide sequence looking almost like old distressed 16mm for a brief second or two.
Police Story: Lockdown features both DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0 options for both the original Mandarin soundtrack and an okay but skippable English dub (unless you're absolutely opposed to reading subtitles, of course). Both of the 5.1 mixes offer seemingly identical mixes save for the language, with good placement of effects in the fight sequences (which are frankly not that numerous), while also nicely detailing both the cavernous and claustrophobic ambiences the various hostages find themselves in. Dialogue is well rendered and prioritized. There's very wide dynamic range at play here, albeit in brief spurts of sonic activity.
- Director Ding Sheng (480i; 4:20)
- Jackie Chan, Zhong Wen (480i; 3:51)
- Liu Ye, Wu Jiang (480i; 6:11)
- Jing Tian, Miao Miao (480i; 6:14)
Those wanting the goofy "old" (meaning younger) Chan in the first Police Story films will probably find this a somewhat more elegiac, restrained film, one that has to be accepted on its own merits to be fully appreciated. The film has a tough time working up much traditional "action film" adrenaline pumping due to its somewhat talkier and meditative ambience, but Chan is quite good in a role that doesn't require him to be charmingly eccentric and/or kicking serious butt, depending on the circumstances. The overall plot is more than a bit hackneyed, and ultimately more than a little preposterous, but the film is well paced and delivers on its smaller scale ambitions reasonably well enough. Technical merits are generally strong and Police Story: Lockdown comes Recommended.
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