![]() It's a little dizzying, the way the movie switches locations from the desert to Arab bazaars to fleabag hotels to a really elaborate set representing some kind of long-lost Nazi headquarters with a built-in wind tunnel that stars in the final action scene. Chan is supplied with a sidekick, an agent named Ada ( Carol Cheng) and eventually collects two more bodacious babes: Elsa (Eva Cobo De Garcia), who is the granddaughter of the Nazi who hid the gold, and Momoko ( Shoko Ikeda), an innocent soul they encounter in the desert, who is searching for the meaning of life and death, and keeps a pet scorpion. A European count hires him on behalf of the United Nations to find Nazi loot-a fortune in gold buried in the North African desert near the end of World War II. The plot is about as silly as most of his movies. "Operation Condor'' was originally released in Asia in 1991 with the prefix "The Armour of God II.'' Chan is the writer, director and star. And there are scenes where he kids himself, as when he rescues a baby carriage in the middle of a breakneck chase, or when he makes a quick getaway by bouncing down a hill inside what looks like a large inflated volleyball. The stunt combines an acrobat's skill with a dancer's grace. Chan jumps against a wall, pushes off to the parallel wall, and leaps over a gate in the wall. And there's a wonderfully choreographed fight above odd flat moving steel platforms high above a hangar floor.Įven the little moments are a kind of perfection. In another stunt, he leaps from a motorcycle speeding off a pier, and grabs a safe hold on a fisherman's net. It looked to me as if trick photography wasn't involved there was a real car, and perfect timing. He swings up out of the way and the car misses him. A car catapults through the air, straight at him. In one of them, Chan is hanging from a beam near the roof of a warehouse. There are a couple of other stunts in the film that had me seriously impressed. It's more fun to watch Chan sweating a little. In a slicker action picture, the flight would have been effortless. ![]()
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