Armour of God 2: Operation Condor (1991) User Reviews

Impressing stunts and fun action

[ingemar-4 · 8/10 · 20 June 2016]

This movie is about impressing stunts. Period. That is all it is, and it does it well. Chan is amazingly skilled in both performing great stunts as well as coming up with ones you haven't seen before.

Great stunts also lay a solid foundation for action comedy. Many action scenes are really, really fun, mixing the stunts with fun situations. In particular, I found the car chase scene make me think "just when I thought there were no fun Bond-style chases left to make, Chan proves that there are". The only thing missing would be to play "The Ride of the Valkyries" at some appropriate times.

One more point in the favor of the movie is Chan's charm. He really has good screen presence.

So far, this is good. But let me mention what the movie does NOT have. It has no interesting plot to speak of. It has rather awful storytelling at times, moving from one scene to another with minimal or no motivation. There are even scenes with obvious remains from cut parts. Finally, the three female leads are all young, pretty and stupid. One "silly girl" would be fine but three of them? This makes them embarrassingly similar. It wouldn't hurt with one woman who were, for example, middle aged and with a professional attitude, or just not exactly the same personality as the others. I guess this is a cultural difference, in movies from the western world we are plagued with over-professional arrogant women instead, which is just as much cliché. Maybe we could get something in between, like an interesting character?

So, forget about the plot. Enjoy the stunts instead! They make me wonder one thing: How dangerous was this movie to make? How many times did Chan go to hospital?

10/10 for stunts. 8/10 for fun and action. 2/10 for story.

An Athletic Riot

[view_and_review · 8/10 · 25 March 2020]

Jackie Chan is crazy. I don't mean like he'll kill someone crazy, but like this guy does some insane stunts crazy.

"Operation Condor" is one of the earliest displays of Jackie Chan's innovative fight and stunt coordinating. He was doing things that other actors could only do through the help of movie magic. It's true that he would have to do more than one take sometimes, but still he was really doing the stunts.

In "Operation Condor" he was an agent trying to track down some hidden gold. He was accompanied by two women, one German woman who was the granddaughter of the man who hid the gold, and one Asian woman who was assigned to help him. The three of them were hilarious to watch. They fought, shot, and stumbled their way along trying to get to their final destination. Jackie Chan provided the athleticism while the two women played supporting extras. "Operation Condor" was athletic and it was a riot: an athletic riot.

Funny Chan Film.

[gangstahippie · 8/10 · 20 August 2006]

Rated PG-13 for martial arts action, some shootings, and sensuality Quebec Rating:G Canadian Home Video Rating:14A

Operation Condor is a very funny Jackie Chan movie which is the sequel to the 1987 film Armor Of God.However when released in America they released this film first so the 1987 film Armor Of God is called Operation Condor 2 in America.I remember renting this film on VHS a very long time ago but I did see it about one year ago on UPN.This film has all the Jackie Chan charm.Great fight scenes,stunts and action but also lots of slapstick comedy to keep you happy.This film is about Jackie Chan and two other people who try to find hidden Nazi gold but others want it as well.Operation Condor is a funny and good film and I recommend it.

Runtime:92min

8/10

I can't say enough good things about this film...

[overkill-6 · 10 January 2001]

...but I've only got 1000 words, so I'll keep it brief. Okay, so some of the early exposition scenes are a little boring and some other parts are a little dumb, but otherwise, this is Chan...and he is DA MAN! Wild, crazy, and ever-inventive martial arts and action sequences more than make up for the fact that the plot is only semi-existent. The opening "Indiana Jones" parody...the innkeeper...the incompetent terrorists...the motorcycle chase...the "native dance"...the wind tunnel fight...and without a doubt the coolest car door ever seen (you'll know what I mean)...in summary, if you're a fan of slapstick humor mixed perfectly with Jackie's trademark martial arts, you can't go wrong with this film!

Plodding, but pays off.

[FiendishDramaturgy · 7/10 · 20 January 2004]

This is one of Jackie Chan's best non-American-made endeavors. Most of his fans whine and moan about his American productions, but I have found each and every one of them to be great fun, and action-packed, which is of course, his intention. Some critics have called him a clown. He should be proud, as it takes years of study and hours of dedicated practice to become a good clown. These skills combined with his exceptional martial arts abilities makes his the unique style of a true virtuoso. I highly admire and enjoy Jackie Chan's drive, ambition, and productions.

This time, Jackie is teamed up with the female equivalent of the Three Stooges, to find a cache of Nazi gold which was rumored to be hidden deep in the desert.

While the first half of this movie is a bit slow, the time is used for great character development and to establish the plot line. The second half is classic Jackie Chan action, great plot, and many laughs.

I was actually a bit impressed with this one, the first time I saw it.

This was the production at which I declared that his work was finally beginning to get the investment capital which it deserved. If I'm not mistaken, this was the first high-budget production featuring his talents. The rest were way, WAY low budget.

Get through the sometimes slow first half, with horrible dialog, and dubbed voices, to enjoy the action-packed fast-paced, all out rousing second half.

It rates a 7/10 from...

the Fiend :.

Jackie Chan at his best in a very entertaining movie

[J2five · 9/10 · 5 May 2003]

This is Jackie Chan´s best movie. Already as a child I loved the scene with the wind machine (Superman!!!) and still today I have to say that Chan mixed a funny Indiana Jones plot with lots of unforgettable stunts and funny slapstick. Two woman join him on the search for tons of Nazi-gold. But they are not the only ones who try to find it, and so on their quest Jackie more than once has to bring himself and the girls (that always are in conflict) out of dangerous situations. Today chan´s fight scenes are still nicely planned but he begins to grow old, and his actions appear to be less fluid than in the past. In this piece, everything seems to be so easy, and there at least four stunts that you will dream of in the following night. (If I just could do things like that). One of my favorite pop-corn movies, very entertaining, a must see for newer Chan-fans who missed it. After seeing this film you will agree with me that Chan´s new films can not compete with the ones made around 1990 when he was not yet a star in the states.

Chan Usually Fun To Watch

[ccthemovieman-1 · 6/10 · 5 December 2007]

This is so Grade B, cartoon-like with some unbelievably stupid dialog and action stunts.......BUT it's still fun to watch because of some great high-tech stunts, good photography and sound and corny-but-good humor with a likable hero played by the likable Jackie Chan.

Made in Hong Kong, the film is dubbed in English so beware of that. Things may not always sound in sync. The humor is mostly slapstick so I would assume this film would appeal a lot more to men than women. There almost no profanity and no nudity so if some of the intense action scenes don't bother you, you might let your kids see this. They'd probably like it and get plenty of laughs.

Chan always has a few unique action scenes. In this movie, the most memorable one is at the end involving huge fans, greatly affecting the combatants in a tunnel. Fun to watch.

Great fun and hot stunts. But some cute stuff is clipped from the US version.

[FedBoy · 10/10 · 2 June 1999]

Though it borrows a few, shall we say, themes from the Armour of G-d movie, this film stands on it's own.

The budget made for some really fun stunts and fights.

My only real complaint is that some funny stuff was cut out of the US version (the desert scene(s) and others) that should have stayed. Since the funniest clipped scene involves a canteen that Jackie has early in the film the initial reference to the canteen makes no sense in the US version because you never see it again for the rest of the darn film.

Oh yeah, and check out the Colonel's Daughters BMW with the automatic lowering doors.... Too cool.

More of what one would expect from Jackie Chan

[The-Sarkologist · 7/10 · 2 October 2011]

There really isn't much that I can really say about this movie except that it has nothing to do with any Armour of God, but hey, why let the plot get in the way of a perfectly good sequel (quoted from Des Mangan). I really feel that when I come to discuss a Jackie Chan movie, everything I can say about it I have already said and cannot really add anything new. His movies follow a formulae namely because the formulae is successful. It is funny, has daring stunts in it which he does, and lots of action. The daring stunt in this movie was riding a motorbike off a pile of crates, jumping from it and onto a load being lifted by a crane. Jackie Chan play Jackie, an adventurer. At first he is in a secret amazon temple where the tribesmen welcome him to take the gems. The thing they don't want him to touch is the holy water, and by drinking that you must stay and marry the chief's daughter. This is not the plot though, but just the opener. Jackie travels to Europe where he is commissioned by the UN to find a lost cache of Nazi gold hidden in the desert. As such Jackie must negotiate Nazi's, slavers, angry tribesmen, and a hidden and trapped vault. All in the typical days work for your standard Indiana Jones. The weird thing about this movie is that Jackie's henchmen from the previous movie has gone but he now has three female companions. One would say that he is a lucky guy. I am one of them.

Jackie Chan does wonders with a big budget

[loco-2 · 10/10 · 7 September 1998]

This may be the most entertaining Jackie Chan experience ever. Filmed all over the world with a huge budget and abundance of energy, Armor of God 2 is a fast, funny, thrilling film. Despite the obvious Indiana Jones plot, Chan amazes us once again by risking his life so we can be entertained for two hours. Chan's directing skills are almost as exceptional as his physical skills in the way he captures the action from brilliant wide angles that display the danger of his action. A scene where Chan flees on motorcycle from the villains through the cramped city streets is one of the most exciting chase scenes on film. Chan gambles with his life in every stunt and action sequence making for an exuberant film that must be seen to fully appreciate Hong Kong action cinema.

Widescreen thrills on a lavish budget

[Libretio · 6/10 · 8 October 2005]

ARMOUR OF GOD II: OPERATION CONDOR (Fei Ying Ji Hua)

Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Technovision)

Sound format: Mono

Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) comes under fire from all sides whilst on a mission to retrieve Nazi treasure buried in the Sahara desert.

One of the most popular films in Chan's extensive filmography, this superior sequel to ARMOUR OF GOD (1986) is clearly patterned after the success of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981), but Chan's movie celebrates its American influences whilst remaining defiantly Asian in concept and execution. It isn't perfect, by any means: The female characters are rendered almost entirely subordinate (Carol Cheng, Eva Cobo De Garcia and Shoko Ikeda give OK performances under the circumstances), and some of the Arab stereotypes are borderline offensive (prompting protests by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee when a re-edited version - OPERATION CONDOR - opened in US theaters), but viewers willing to overlook these conspicuous blunders will be treated to some of the most astonishing set-pieces of Chan's entire career.

In fact, the entire movie is a showcase for world-class stuntwork, photographed in glorious widescreen by veteran cinematographer Arthur Wong. Chan is clearly doubled in a number of sequences (notably a car-and-motorcycle chase during the film's opening stretch), but there's no denying his participation in the show-stopping finale, where Good and Evil engage in mortal combat within a vast underground labyrinth, culminating in a spectacular wind-tunnel sequence which took *months* to film and sent the entire movie over-schedule and way over-budget. Released in the UK as OPERATION CONDOR: ARMOUR OF GOD II.

(Cantonese dialogue)

Action packed and fun

[warlorde · 10/10 · 20 March 2002]

Good movie for Jackie Chan, one of my favorites. Great fight scenes and not fluffy at all. Even the women were appealing. The stunts were also very clever, however I do cringe when I see that guy with the broom in the warehouse take a header when that car goes by him. OUCH! If you want some exciting action with a plot, see this movie!

One of the best comedy adventure

[ebiros2 · 7/10 · 25 November 2011]

This movie is rumored to been made to make up for the loss incurred on Jackie Chan's 1989 movie "Miracles". Whether this is true or not, I'm glad that he decided to make this sequel to the Armour of god.

Hawk or Jackie depending on which dubbed version you're watching (Jackie Chan) is asked to recover Nazi's gold hidden in the Sahara desert. Ada (Do Do Chen) who works for the government, tags along. Jackie also meets Elsa (Eva Cobo), and Momoko (Shoko Ikeda) along the way. There are gang of Arabs, and ex-Nazi group after the gold. They are each after the key that Jackie's entourage has.

Comedy, and actions are pure Jackie Chan in this movie. Maybe this movie has the best mixture of them both. Casting is good, and I think Do Do Chen and Eva Cobo were spot on for their role.

How Jackie got out of the mess in the end, I'll never know, but the adventures in the middle were one of the best I've seen.

A movie that's entertaining for wide audiences, and I'm sure it will be the favorite of many fans in the future.

Decent concept, bad execution! 3/10

[leonblackwood · 3/10 · 6 November 2015]

Review: This is yet another comedic film from Jackie Chan which sees him playing a Indiana Jones type role, in this, wannabe, action adventure. The storyline and acting seemed extremely amateur but the action scenes were half decent. In this film, Jackie Chan plays Condor, whose hired by government officials, to find some buried gold in the middle of the North African desert. With the help of a historian and a lady who is the granddaughter of a man that went missing whilst looking for the hidden treasure, Condor heads off to the desert whilst fighting off various hit men who want the map and key to the door behind the gold. Sounds exciting but it wasn't that great. It would have been an epic adventure if Jackie Chan took out the silly jokes because the concept wasn't bad. The whole look of the film was pretty bad as well, because it looked like they used a cheap camera with dodgy effects. Also, the two ladies that were helping Chan to find the treasure, we're really annoying and there constant screaming and bickering became extremely annoying. On the plus side, the action was quite good and it did amaze me how Chan done some of the stunts but it wasn't enough to save the movie. At the time of its release, I did find the whole Armor Of God franchise brilliant but I lost interest whilst watching it the second time around. Like a lot of Jackie Chan's movies, I'm still not getting the humour but the action is making them watchable. Anyway, most of Chan's earlier work is much better than the movies that he made in the latter part of his career but I can't fault him in the action/stunt department which still looks great in this day and age. Disappointing!

Round-Up: This is another movie directed by Jackie Chan, which must have been hard because he was the star of the film but I can't believe that he also wrote this awful script. For a man whose made over 100 movies, I have only seen a handful which I've actually enjoyed but I still have a lot of his films to watch so things can only get better! 

Budget: HK$115,000,000 Worldwide Gross: N/A

I recommend this movie to people who are into their action/adventure/martial arts/comedies starring and directed by Jackie Chan. 3/10

The Greatest Adventure of All Time

[oneflewovertheapocalypse · 29 March 2004]

Armour of God 2 destroys anything Indiana Jones ever did as it is the most accomplished action adventure film I have ever seen and I am not joking. This has everything from bad villains, female leads, well three actually, great action, great adventure, plenty of explosions and some of the most funniest scenes you will ever see in adventure film like this. Apart from Rush Hour you wouldn't usually associate Jackie Chan with doing much comedy only martial arts but he does it like a pro and it doesn't stop till the very end. I can go on and on for years and years watching this and you never ever get bored as there is so much to take in and not enough time. As soon as it is finished you'll be dying to go back for more and watch it on repeat viewings.

Jackie Chan has made some of the best kick ass films in the world. I rate his films much better than Bruce Lee's and if you want to challenge that then all you have to do is watch this, the first Amour of God and Project A and you will see how accomplished his films really are.

Not quite classic Chan, but still has some great set pieces

[Jeremy_Urquhart · 7/10 · 28 September 2021]

Not among Jackie Chan's very best, but it's a fun watch with some good comedy (with a few jokes that do miss, though) and good action, with three set pieces standing out:

• the climactic fight with the giant wind turbine thing that propels Jackie and his foes in different directions
• the large brawl in the underground bunker, which is packed with great acrobatics and some really inventive set design
• and the highlight of the film, an over the top car chase with Chan himself of a motorcycle, which is worth the price of admission alone.

The plot is barebones, and the female characters are the butt of many jokes (pun semi-intended), but at the same time... all three of Jackie's sidekicks are females, and there's no forced romantic nonsense with any of them, so in that way maybe it's progressive??

Awesome!

[JJakonen · 10/10 · 12 April 1999]

Jackie Chan films have almost always been entertaining action flicks, but this is absolutely the greatest Jackie Chan movie. Sure the plot is a little thin, but who cares about that when there is great non-stop action and comedy. I wish all movies were like this...

Lots of action, stunts and archetypical Jackie Chan fun...

[paul_haakonsen · 6/10 · 25 July 2022]

The 1991 Hong Kong action comedy "Fei Ying Gai Wak" (aka "Operation Condor") is an enjoyable Jackie Chan action comedy. Of course it is, as if there would be any doubt about that.

The storyline told in "Fei Ying Gai Wak" is pretty straight forward, although a bit simplistic actually. But the lack of a more intricate and complex storyline is more than made up for in sheer action, stunts and the archetypical Jackie Chan stunts galore.

If you enjoy the classic Jackie Chan style of movies then "Fei Ying Gai Wak" is definitely well worth taking the time to sit down and watch, as it is a fast-paced and over-the-top stunts fest. And I have to admit that I am amazed with the skill of Jackie Chan as he continues to impress with his feats movie after movie.

"Fei Ying Gai Wak" has a good cast ensemble which includes Jackie Chan, of course, but also has the likes of Carol 'Do Do' Cheng and Ken Lo on the cast list.

I happened to watch the original Cantonese version, and I am just perplexed why they opt to dub the English speaking actors and actresses into Cantonese. It is just cringeworthy to witness and listen to, especially since I abhor dubbed movies.

This is definitely a true Jackie Chan classic, and if you haven't already seen "Fei Ying Gai Wak", and get the chance to do so, you definitely should.

My rating of "Fei Ying Gai Wak" lands on a six out of ten stars.

aka operation condor 2:the armor of the gods

[hotfox-2 · 9/10 · 7 January 2000]

jackie chan. what is there to say but that he is the actor's actor. i really didn't know of his schooling until recently. but you have to admit he can make you laugh. even in his older movies where the english is dubbed, he is funny. now comes a new side i didn't know about. at the end of this movie he sings a song, high up, on high, the man has an easy voice to listen to. i was just thrilled to hear him. i am amazed that a broken ankle or stitches is all he may have had. did you see him jump on top of the hot air balloon at the end. breath taking and the song was right for it. the fight scene with the women was imaginative. and the explosives on his body were used to help it to be not a harsh scene but a little comedy. i loved the car=cycle. there is always something new and challenging is all his movies. most of his movies have pretty clean language and not a lot of nudity or sex. he more than makes up for it in acting ability. all these reasons are why i love the man and his movies. not the least but the last. even his outtakes are great.

Jackie Chan's best

[maitreg · 7/10 · 13 February 2001]

This is Jackie Chan's best movie. Awesome fight scenes. Most seem very realistic. The usual awesome Jackie Chan stunt scenes. This is Chan's version of James Bond. Also one of Chan's funniest. Any Chan fan will like it.

As a government agent, Chan is sent out with a female desert guide to search for the tons of lost gold in a buried WW2 Nazi base in North Africa. Along the way, Chan picks up another female accomplice, the German granddaughter of a former base officer.

Several other governments are also aware of the gold, but don't know its location. They either fight Chan or try to follow him to the gold. Good, believable story. Great scenery.

the chan movie that got me hooked, a classic

[daworldismine · 10/10 · 25 May 2012]

this was the first jackie chan movie i ever saw, and i loved it, its full of breathetaking stunts, brilliant fight scenes and plenty of laughs, when i was a kid and i saw this i thought it was the best movie i ever seen, i don't any more of course, but its still one of my favourites and its a movie i can watch again and again, I've never see the cut us dubbed version, don't really want to but the uncut version i saw, is a classic and one of chsns best, the first one 'armour of god' is just as good. so all in all i highly recommend this action comedy, it delivers everything you want from a jackie chan movie and is highly entertaining,

Too much of a good thing

[=G= · 6/10 · 9 June 2003]

"Operation Condor" is an action comedy with Chan (who else?) in the spotlight leading three babes to Nazi gold buried in the Sahara with a small army of bad guys on his tail. A very busy flick which is chock full of the early and less sophisticated slap-happy Chan action, this flick is a benchmark in Chan's career; a sort of break-through flick for Chan in the international big-budget a al Hollywood film market. The flick features quantity over quality with nonstop blatantly silly comedy and countless contraptions and contrivances in a kind of "Indiana Jones tomb raider" desert milieu. Not for the jaded, "Operation Condor" is a must see for Chan fans and okay stuff for others into the Chan brand of action/adventure comedy. (B-)

Jacky Chan takes up the mantle of Charlie Chaplin (& Harold Lloyd)

[sangabo · 10/10 · 12 August 1998]

Herein, Jacky Chan proves himself, beyond question, to be the direct successor of those two masters of physical comedy ~ Charlie Chaplin & Harold Lloyd.

When I saw this movie in the Cinema, with a couple of friends, we literally did the cliche'd 'laughing non-stop' gig, from start to finish.

This & Jacky, are classic comedy. For a miniscule fraction of the Budget of "Ishtar", Jacky did what Dustin & Warren, probably with help from their script & direction, could not do; he made a very, very funny, desert ~adventure movie. In this genre, it stands with "Follow that Camel", the British 'Carry-on' gang & Phil Silvers' Beau jest, and, anything the Marx Brothers may have done ~ in this vein.

Indiana Jones With a Kick

[gavin6942 · 6/10 · 27 January 2016]

Jackie is a talented special agent who is used for dangerous undercover work. The government employs him to try and find some gold that the Nazis allegedly left in Northern Africa 40 years ago. He soon discovers that he is not the only one searching for the gold; there are people willing to kill to get their hands on it.

Compared to its predecessor, this film is more akin to the Indiana Jones film series in that it features Chan's character Jackie / Condor ("Asian Hawk" in the U.S. release) battling against a former Nazi to retrieve gold from an abandoned base deep in the Sahara Desert.

I am still warming up to Jackie Chan. I much prefer Bruce lee or Donnie Yen. But Chan has a humor the other two lack, and I love the Indiana Jones theme going on in this film... well played. Maybe a few more films and Chan will win me over.

Operation Kick Ass.

[anaconda-40658 · 1/10 · 6 May 2015]

Operation Condor (1991): Dir: Jackie Chan / Cast: Jackie Chan, Carol Cheng, Eva Cobo De Garcia, Shoko Ikeda, Daniel Mintz: Two hours of stunts with little plot to be seen. It involves a hidden base that Jackie Chan is sent in search for gold. Equipped with a pass-way key he ventures to the desert accompanied by three women who cannot act. Predictable and dense with a screenplay where the heights of excitement is Chan kicking someone's face in. Chan is no better directing than he is acting. He is terrific at the stunts, which seem to be the point anyway. He has a likable sense of humour and an impressive physical disposition but the stunts are the norm. He seems to be in combat in nearly every scene but then again, people do not go into a Chan flick expecting dramatic payoff. Nonetheless the plot should be intriguing enough to be worthy the price of admission. The photography and production seem to be the only element that can cut in. He is joined by Carol Cheng, Eva Cobo De Garcia and Skoko Ikeda and they are an embarrassment. These three women give good indication as to why the divorce rate is so high. They overact to the max in every miserable scene we have to process. The purpose seems to be the stunts and how far Chan can slam his foot up someone's ass. It is an exercise in bad acting and three annoying women who should never be caught on film again. Score: 1 / 10