Armour of God
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Short description
Armour of God follows Jackie, a treasure hunter operating under the nickname the Asian Hawk, who steals a ceremonial sword in Africa without realizing what it represents. The blade turns out to be one piece of a legendary suit of armour, known as the Armour of God, and a cult of monks wants the missing sections for itself. When the group abducts his former girlfriend Lorelei, Jackie is forced to track down the remaining pieces and hand them over in exchange for her release, with the help of his bumbling friend Alan.
Jackie Chan directed the film and co-wrote it with John Sheppard and Edward Tang, with Leonard Ho and Chua Lam producing. It was Chan's sixth directorial effort, arriving between Police Story and Project A - Part II. Eric Tsang also has a directing credit here, placed between Aces Go Places and Handsome Siblings in his own filmography. The cast includes Alan Tam as Alan, Lola Forner as May, Rosamund Kwan as Lorelei, Ken Boyle as the Great Sage and John Ladalski as the High Lama, part of a credited cast of 33 and crew of 81. Made across Austria, Hong Kong and Yugoslavia, the film took about 16 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 6.9 from 24,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 7 from 682. A critics' rating of 6.5 from 10 reviews places it close to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming of 'Armour of God' took place in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, with the participation of Yugoslav filmmakers.
- The episode featuring the band “The Losers” is a parody of the Hong Kong rock band “The Wynners”. Alan Tam, Anthony Chan, and Kenny Bee were all members of the rock band and all participated in the filming of the movie.
- In the kidnapping scene involving Jackie's girlfriend from the fashion show, the criminals shoot a photographer, and in one frame, he is seen using a Soviet-made ZENIT export camera.
- Towards the end of the film, it's noticeable that Jackie lands on a hot air balloon standing on the ground (the balloon isn't moving, and the treetop is clearly visible in the frame). Therefore, the stunt of jumping from the cliff onto the hot air balloon consists of three edited parts – a jump from a helicopter with a parachute (during Jackie's freefall, it's clear the altitude is at least 1 km), landing on the balloon standing on the ground, taking off with Jackie on the balloon, and lowering it into the basket in the air.
- In the US, the film was released under the title "Operation Condor 2: Armor of God". The reason is that the second part of the franchise was released in American theaters slightly earlier, which constantly causes confusion.
- Mars (JC Stunt Association) doubled for Jackie in some scenes.
- The car driven by Jackie Chan in the film is a “Mitsubishi Colt Targa Concept”. It is a special one-time model made exclusively for the film's shooting.
- The car stunts in the film were performed by the famous French legendary stunt coordinator - Michel Julienne.
- When jumping from the castle wall onto a tree, Chan lost his grip and fell onto a rock, fracturing his skull. A skull base fracture and a brain hemorrhage resulted. As a result, his right ear hears worse than his left. This was the most serious injury he sustained, nearly costing Jackie Chan his life.
- Eric Tsang directed those scenes before the accident, where we see Jackie Chan with short hair. Everything else was filmed under the direction of Jackie himself, as soon as he recovered. Eric was the only one who advised Jackie to get a shorter haircut, but Leonard Ho was against it, he felt it would bring bad luck and he turned out to be right.
- Due to a skull injury, Jackie appears with a short haircut at the beginning of the film, and after jumping from the castle wall, he rolls in the grass with already grown-out hair.
- Jackie Chan’s image in this film would later be used in the animated series “Jackie Chan Adventures” (2000-2005).
- In the scene where Jackie throws one of the Amazons (actually a male stuntman) to the ground, you can see they are wearing white tennis shoes instead of black high heels.
- The film was nominated for the 1988 Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography.
- During the filming of the scene where Jackie fights four girls, he sometimes replaced them with stunt performers from his team.
- In the episode where Chan rescues his friends from prison, Laura addresses him by the name "Kunsan," and shortly after— "Chan Kunsan." In fact, Kunsan is Jackie's birth name. In the American version of the film, "Kunsan" was changed to "cowboy."
- There are 2 versions of the film: a Hong Kong version from “Golden Harvest” and an American version from “Dimension Films”. The Hong Kong version is 97 minutes long, while the American version is 88 minutes long.
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