Armour Of God on DVD (1986)

A customer from WILLENHALL , 29/06/2004

THIS IS TRUE JACKIE CHAN STYLE,BEFORE HE DID HOLLYWOOD!THIS HAS TO BE ONE OF JACKIE CHANS FUNIEST FILMS,TYPICAL COMICAL FIGHT SCENE'S WITH LOT'S OF ACTION.IF YOUR A JACKIE CHAN FAN AND DON'T MIND DUBBING GET THIS YOU'LL LOVE IT!!!

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KING!

dude [Highly rated reviewer] , 10/11/2007

dis was gud way back wen i 1st watched it as a kid... its still hella gud!

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Jackie Chan delivers again

A customer from Yorkshire , 01/04/2004

This is a really good Jackie Chan movie. The stunt's performed in this movie are mind blowing, especially when you think of the fact that Jackie performs his own stunts.

The only thing about the movie which is slightly bad, is that it is dubbed rather badly, but not to despire cause you will be to busy enjoying the movie for what it is.

Good all round plot, featuring a young Jackie Chan.

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cool

A customer from GLASGOW , 06/05/2005

oh how i love these Jackie Chan films

especially the stunts he does cool, it`s not one of his best but if your a jackie chan fan you will love it just like i did.

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A pain in the head.

A customer from wirral , 24/06/2005

This is by far one of jackie chan's technically superior films, the stunts, martial arts and fx are awesome. see also operation condor, the sequel. jackie almost died making this film, and now has a metal plate in his head as a result.

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Armour of God

SAI81 from Tonbridge [Highly rated reviewer] , 25/03/2007

Asian Hawk (Chan) used to be a pop singer along with friend Alan (Tam) but now he's an Indiana Jones style fortune hunter. When Alan's girlfriend (Kwan), also Hawk's ex, is kidnapped he and Alan must retrieve all three pieces of the Armour of God as a ransom for the corrupt group of monks who hold her.

Every time he does a film Jackie Chan does things that could quite easily kill him. He fell off a clocktower in Project A (actually he did three takes of that one), he slid down a long pole lined with lightbulbs in Police Story and he's been injured countless times, dislocating bones you never thought you could dislocate (the sternum). He's only come close to dying in one stunt though, a raher simple one on this film. Jumping out of a tree from about 15 feet up Chan missed his target, the cameraman rolled out of the way to avoid being landed on and Chan landed on a rock, cracking his skull. Fortunately he was able to get emergency brain surgery, though he still has a plastic plug stopping the hole in his head.

Armour of God did get finished though and there's little in it to suggest that its star and director had nearly lost his life early in the schedule as Chan still executes some truly breathtaking stunts.

It's not, sadly, one of Chan's best but Armour of God does have some real standout sequences. The opening sequence isn't so much inspired by Indiana Jones as it is a direct lift but it's strong with some great stunts and the same exuberant action feel as the Indy films captured. Sadly after this the film settles into a largely action free midsection which throws too much focus on a bland Alan Tam (whose introduction, with an enitre canto-pop song, is truly a test of endurance). The ending set piece does, as ever, liven things up with Jackie fighting four female opponents as well as some monks before diving off a cliff onto a hot air baoon and sliding down the baloon into the basket (something he did for real, mere months after his operation).

Aside from the action this isn't a great film but there's enough decent action and endearing performances from Jackie and Spanish model Lola Forner to recommend it.

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