03-31-2010, 10:40 AM
My allergies got the best of me last night so I dropped some expired claritin and then decided there was no use sleeping as it would waste those fine moments of clarity on unconsciousness. So I wound up watching Police Story, the original '93 flick where Jackie does that insane mall jump stunt. It's a funky film now, especially with its cheesey Hong Kong soundtrack. It feels older than it is. It reminds me of Thai film now. That Jackie sense of humor, odd detours into pratfalls and opportunities for Jackie to make silly faces, he seems so young then (not to mention Maggie and Brigette, who look like darling ingénues). But man, those fights, those stunts, that final orgy of broken glass, bone-crunching falls and hyper-kinetic choreography in the shopping mall - what a freaking awesome finale.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse