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Police Story 4: First Strike (1996)

★ 6.5 · 532 ratings on TMDB

They thought they possessed the ultimate weapon. They hadn't counted on Jackie Chan.

Police Story 4: First Strike poster★ 6.5

Hong Kong cop Chan Ka-Kui returns, working with Interpol to track down and arrest an illegal weapons dealer. Chan later realizes that things are not as simple as they appear and soon finds himself to be a pawn of an organization posing as Russian intelligence.

DirectorStanley Tong Gwai-Lai
CastAilen Sit Chun-Wai, Annie Wu, Bill Tung Biu, Chan Man-Ching, Chan Wai-To, Jackie Chan
GenresAction, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Police Story 4: First Strike keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E11/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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