Patience is for the hunter and revenge is a dish served
cold. Nightclub owner Wu Jiang (Liu Ye
— Dark
Matter, City of Life and Death) has the patience of a hunter and his
need for revenge has made him a killer with a heart that has grown cold.
This is what Jackie Chan is up against in Well Go USA’s Aug.
11 DVD and Blu-ray release of Police Story: Lockdown, the sixth
installment in the venerable Police Story line of films that date
all the way back to 1985.
After scoring big theatrical numbers in China, the film made
its domestic debut on June 5 … this yields an ARR of 67 days (domestic box
office results have not been posted yet).
The Wu Bar (filmed on location in Bejing) is the hunting ground
for Jiang and it is to this upscale nightclub that the last element in his sinister
game of death is lured. This would be
Police Captain Zhong Wen (Chan), who thinks he is going there to persuade his
estranged daughter (played by Tian Jing — Special ID, Tears in Heaven, The
Warring States, etc.) that Jiang is not the man for her.
Instead, before he can say “Mai Tai, please,” he is bludgeoned
unconscious and awakes to find himself wired to a chair where the real reason
he is there is revealed. The Wu Bar is
actually an elaborate trap, wired with explosives and riddled with secret
passages. Jiang will have his revenge
tonight!
To save his daughter Zhong must meet his captor’s
demands. Cooperate fully knowing full
well that his survival is unlikely … ah, but this is Jackie Chan and we all
know how resourceful he can be!!!
Police Story: Lockdown is presented in Mandarin with English
subtitles. Bonus features include a
behind-the-scenes featurette and newly prepared interview sessions with
director Sheng Ding (Little Big Soldier), the film’s
star, Jackie Chan, and other members of the cast.
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