Armour of God II: Operation Condor
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 Operation Condor UK DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Jackie Chan |
| Produced by | Raymond Chow, Leonard Ho |
| Written by | Jackie Chan Edward Tang |
| Starring | Jackie Chan, Carol 'Do Do' Cheng |
| Music by | Chris Babida |
| Cinematography | Arthur Wong |
| Release date(s) | 1991 |
| Running time | 106 min. |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Preceded by | Armour of God |
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Armour of God II: Operation Condor is a 1991 Jackie Chan film, the sequel to his hit Armour of God.
This film is even more of an Indiana Jones copy than the previous one in that it features Chan's character "Asian Hawk" battling against a former Nazi to retrieve gold from an abandoned base deep in the Sahara Desert.
In one scene, Jackie escapes his persecutors in a zorb.
Because this film was released in the U.S. years before its predecessor, it was renamed Operation Condor, and the first film Operation Condor II.
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[edit] U.S. Release
Over six years after its Hong Kong release, the film, with its title shortened to just Operation Condor, was released theatrically in North American screens by Dimension, a subsidiary of Miramax.
[edit] Reviews
The North American version of the film currently holds a 66% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with an 83% approval rating among the 'Cream of the Crop.'[1]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film three stars out of a possible four and said:
"Most action pictures are, at some level, a little mean-spirited: They depend upon macho brutes getting their way. Jackie Chan is self-effacing, a guy who grimaces when he's hurt, who dusts himself off after close calls, who goes for a gag instead of a gun. He brings that light-hearted persona to the fact that he is also a superb athlete and does amazing things in every film. There's a kind of innocence to it all, and a joy of performance. Half of the time, you find yourself wearing a silly grin."[2]
[edit] Box Office
In its Hong Kong theatrical release, this film grossed HK $39,048,711.
On 1,523 North American screens in its opening weekend, it grossed US $4,731,751 ($3,088 per screen), on track to a modest US $10,405,394 final gross.
[edit] Trivia
According to some source, while being filmed on location in the Mid-East. The production crew suffered a lot of problems and delays during its filming. It includes the robbery of the prop money, which apparently circulated by the locals. That led to the arrest of the production manager and the holding of the film negatives by the local authority.
