Operation Condor
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Short description
Jackie Chan returns as the adventurer known as Asian Hawk, a man who hires out his skills to whoever will pay for them. This time a Spanish baron sends him after a cache of Nazi gold that was hidden somewhere in the Sahara during the Second World War and never recovered. Armed with a key that supposedly leads to the hoard, and accompanied by a woman named Ada who knows the region and by Elsa, who is searching for her grandfather, he sets off across the desert.
Chan directed the film himself, working from a screenplay he wrote with Edward Tang and Fibe Ma, and he also produced it with Leonard Ho. It is the tenth of the fourteen features he has directed, following Miracles: The Canton Godfather and preceding Who Am I?, which arrived several years later. Carol Cheng, Eva Cobo and Shôko Ikeda play the three women who join the expedition, while Vincent Lyn and Jonathan Isgar appear among the supporting cast. Roughly two dozen performers are credited and the crew numbers about sixty.
The production carried a budget of fifteen million dollars and took in around twenty-four million worldwide. Audiences have rated it at 7.2 out of ten on IMDb across some twenty-five thousand votes and at 7.3 out of ten on TMDB, while a smaller group of critics gave it 6.3 out of ten from thirty-four reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming lasted 8 months, four of which were spent staging the fight scene in the wind tunnel.
- The Hong Kong version of the film has a runtime of 106 minutes, the American version – 92 minutes.
- The staging of the auto and motorcycle stunts in the film was handled by Rémy Julien's team (the legendary French stunt coordinator and performer), who also staged stunts in the first film.
- The film was nominated for the Hong Kong Film Award in 1992 for Best Action Choreography.
- The large motorcycle jump onto the crane's cargo (following the chase) was performed by the well-known French stuntman, Michel Julien.
- During the chase scene involving the black cars, right at the end, when two of them fall into the water and Jackie grabs onto the suspended crate, you can see the passengers climbing out of the car and giving a thumbs-up to the film crew, indicating that everything is okay.
- During a motorcycle chase, Jackie is pursued by 4 black cars. At one point, he is boxed in on an alleyway and drives in reverse over the cars that blocked the alley behind him, shattering the windshields of many of them. He then sprays red paint on the rear window of one of the cars. The chase continues on the street, but all the windows are intact.
- Jackie Chan made this film after the box office failure of 'Miracles' (1989) to recoup the costs of the latter.
- Members of the film crew constantly fell ill and suffered from bites from tropical insects and other desert creatures. Sand was a constant problem, as it penetrated sensitive cameras and other equipment. Fed up with fighting the 'natural elements' of the desert, the crew returned to Hong Kong, bringing with them a ton of sand to finish filming some scenes.
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