Operation Condor 2
The Armour of the Gods
English Dubbed Version
AKA: Armour of God (1986), Longxiong hudi
Released: 1986
Rated: R
Length: Approx. 89 min.
Main Cast: Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan, Lola Forner, Bozidar Smiljanic
It took me a while, but I finally saw the "sequel" to Operation Condor. If you follow Jackie Chan movies closely though, you'll know that this movie actually preceded the aforementioned movie.
Anyway, this one begins with Jackie watching some kind of ritual wherein a naked woman is being sacrificed. You don't see the woman all that well, but I assume this is the main reason this movie got an 'R' rating. Personally, I have seen much worse in PG-13. But back to the movie. Jackie is after a large sword that is a part of the "Armour of God". He acquires it and then has a bunch of natives chasing him. This scene is quite similar to Operation Condor's beginning.
This is where they have a fairly interesting fight sequence and chase. After Jackie escapes, we learn that he used to be part of a rock group/band. Due to this association, some people that own other parts of the Armour want to force Jackie to get them the rest of the Armour. How? By kidnapping a girl from Jackie's former band named Lorelei (Rosamund Kwan) that Jackie used to love (or is still in love with).
After doing that, they send a message to her current band-mate and former friend of Jackie, Alan (Alan Tam) and tell him to tell Jackie of her predicament. Jackie is finally persuaded and he goes on his mission to rescue Lorelei.
Jackie knows of a rich guy that bought some of the Armour, so Jackie goes there with Alan to try and persuade him to give Jackie the Armour so that they might save Lorelei. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to give up his artifacts and Alan decides to take matters into his own hands. Thus, it is that they get caught trying to steal the Armour. Jackie makes a deal that he will get the rich guy the rest of the Armour if the rich dude will loan him the Armour to save Lorelei. The rich dude's daughter, May (Lola Forner) jumps in with her own proposition: She must accompany them
Soon thereafter, they locate Lorelei with a bunch of Satanists. I really don't understand what the Satanists want with the Armour, but it really doesn't matter as you know they're not up to any good. They inject Lorelei with some tonic to make her do whatever they say. Thus, the Satanists let her escape with Jackie et al so that she can steal the rest of the Armour off of them. That's got to be one of the lamest parts of the movie!
Well, somewhere in here is a (kind of) cool car chase. It's not nearly as gripping or cool as the one in Who Am I?, but it's still pretty neat. Watch for the stupid mini-car....
Of course, Jackie has one last good fight near the end. This one is with some big, black, well-endowed girls in high heels and skimpy outfits. Here is the next bad part in the movie: Jackie punches one of the girls in the breasts and they bounce crazily. It looks kind of fake and is almost funny, but it's still pretty naughty.
Jackie prevails in the end and everything is hunky-dory again. (Duh!)
The Good Stuff:
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Typical funny Jackie humor |
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Fun and interesting fight scenes |
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A decent car chase |
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The plot and dubbing were okay |
The Bad Stuff:
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Some bad language |
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That naked woman and that black girls sequence spring to mind once more |
Dumb Stuff:
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A stupid scene in which Jackie acts kind of like a jerk when freeing Lorelei to find out if she really loves Alan. Argh! It's sooooo dumb!!!!! |
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Other corny stuff that's sprinkled here and there |
For the most part this is a pretty good Jackie Chan flick. At times it does drag a little, but overall, I still give it a thumbs up!
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(Yup, pretty average...for Jackie...which isn't necessarily a bad thing.)