History Film / NewPoliceStory

* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: Jackie Chan is pushing 50 when the film's released, and he's taking on a legion of young ounks-turned-{{cop killer}}s.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: It is never stated, but Joe's flashbacks and reactions to his father's presence indicate he has a nasty PTSD going due to his abuse. His neglecting of his day job, troubled sleep habits, overdependence on high-risk stimulation and emotionless demeanor when at home also imply he has clinical depression, which often comes together with PTSD in real life.

* AmbiguousDisorder: It is never stated, but Joe's flashbacks and reactions to his father's presence indicate he has a nasty PTSD going due to his abuse. His neglecting of his day job, troubled sleep habits, overdependence on high-risk stimulation and emotionless demeanor when at home also imply he has clinical depression, which often comes together with PTSD in real life.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Frank considers Joe's gang to be this, as they all come from privileged backgrounds. Deconstructed to a degree as Frank also believes that they're aware of how empty their lives are as a result of being born into wealth. Joe does have the additional excuse of being horribly abused by his father, but the whole gang's dangerous thrill-seeking seems to come from their general misery over being directionless due to their wealth.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Chan has gone through a lot; watching his squad died in gruesome ways with his very own eyes. Not only [[ItsAllMyFault does he blame himself]] but he is also blamed by his fellow cops that he [[DrowningMySorrows binged-drink almost-to-death]] for years and briefly quit as a cop. When he slowly moves on and goes back as a cop, he almost loses his girlfriend at the hand of the same enemy. After going through so much, with the help of Frank Cheng ([[spoiler:who owes his kindness when he was a kid]]), he finally earns his happiness; winning a race to assemble a semi-automatic pistol (which he lost earlier that caused his squad's deaths) as well as successfully saving Frank from death and could [[spoiler:eventually get together for good with his girlfriend after she accepts his dramatic-yet-heartwarming proposal]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Chan has gone through a lot; losing his squad in gruesome deaths. Not only [[ItsAllMyFault does he blame himself]] but he is also blamed by his fellow cops that he [[DrowningMySorrows binge-drink almost-to-death]] for years and briefly quit as a cop. When he slowly moves on and goes back as a cop, he almost loses his girlfriend to the same enemy. After going through so much, with the help of Frank Cheng ([[spoiler:who owes his kindness when he was a kid]]), he finally earns his happiness; winning a race to assemble a semi-automatic pistol (which he lost earlier that caused his squad's deaths) as well as successfully saving Frank from death and could [[spoiler:eventually get together for good with his girlfriend when she accepts his dramatic-yet-heartwarming proposal]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Chan has gone through a lot; losing his squad in gruesome deaths. Not only [[ItsAllMyFault does he blame himself]] but he is also blamed by his fellow cops that he [[DrowningMySorrows binge-drink almost-to-death]] for years and quit as a cop. When he slowly moves on and goes back as a cop, he almost loses his girlfriend to the same enemy. After going through so much, with the help of Frank Cheng ([[spoiler:who owes his kindness when he was a kid]]), he finally earns his happiness; winning a race to assemble a semi-automatic pistol (which he lost earlier that caused his squad's deaths) as well as successfully saving Frank from death and could [[spoiler:eventually get together for good with his girlfriend when she accepts his dramatic-yet-heartwarming proposal]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Chan has gone through a lot; losing his squad in gruesome deaths. Not only [[ItsAllMyFault does he blame himself]] but he is also blamed by his fellow cops that he [[DrowningMySorrows binge-drinking almost-to-death]]. He even almost loses his girlfriend to the same enemy. After going through so much, with the help of Frank Cheng ([[spoiler:his partner who owes his kindness when he was a kid]]), he finally earns his happiness; winning a race to assemble a semi-automatic pistol (which he lost earlier that caused his squad's deaths) as well as successfully saving Frank from death and could [[spoiler:eventually get together for good with his girlfriend in a dramatic-yet-heartwarming proposal]].

* JustifiedCriminal: [[spoiler:Joe's father was a homeless man who robbed a store to get food for his son. Unfortunately, his one desperate crime resulted in his death almost immediately, as he was run over by a truck while attempting to cross the street.]]

* SteppingOutForAQuickCupOfCoffee: [[UpToEleven The entire police department]], in order to allow Jackie and Frank to "escape" and face the bad guys.

* BloodKnight: The antagonists, though they primarily focus their hatred towards cops.

* CopHater: Joe's gang makes a sport of killing cops, but Joe in particular makes it known how much he despises them, [[spoiler:as he was physically abused as a child by his police officer father.]]
* CopKiller: Chan Kwok Wing hunts down a group of heavily armed robbers who don't give a second thought about gunning down police officers. The main bad guy, Joe, is motivated to do this [[spoiler:because he was physically abused as a child by his police officer father, who had gained a high-ranking position by the time the movie begins.]]

* FreudianExcuse: The BigBad is the only villain whose reason for doing what he does is explicitly shown--as a child, he was frequently locked in handcuffs and beaten by his abusive cop dad, and as a teen he was ''still'' berated by the older man. Joe eventually grew to resent him, especially when his father would go on TV and declare that [[{{Hypocrite}} a police officer's behavior for the public should mirror his behavior at home]].

* ExtremeSportExcusePlot: The villains are all extreme sports enthusiasts. There's even a confrontation at a rooftop skate park.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Actually slightly averted [[spoiler:with Ho Yee. After she's discharged from the hospital, it seems like she recovered from being caught in an explosion's blast radius without any last visual damage. Then, when Chan proposes to her, the camera moves to reveal that the back half of the right side of her face is covered with burn scars.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Joe, despite being an utterly ruthless cop-hating gang boss who gleefully murders Chan's entire squad and would even shoot his own team mates, [[spoiler:goes out by committing SuicideByCop after being confronted by his father. Even Chan tries to get the snipers to not shoot him since he was holding an unloaded gun, only to fail as Joe gets shot a second time and his father falls to his knees, horrified.]]

* LetsFightLikeGentlemen: Tin-Tin agrees to discard his gun in favor of fisticuffs during his final confrontation with Chan after Chan brings up that their previous fist fight ended in a draw.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: One of the crooks distracts Chan by shooting the driver of a moving bus, causing it to veer out of control. To clarify, not the tyres, ''the driver. Of a MOVING BUS.''

* ExtremeSportExcusePlot: The villains are all extreme sports enthusiasts, culminating in a confrontation at a rooftop skate park.