Operation Condor
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Actor: Jackie ChanBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
Published: 1999-09-01
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dimension
Movie Reviews of Operation Condor
Movie Review: Ah, Awesome Movie! Better than the Other OC Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This was both the first Jackie Chan I saw, and owned for the VHS, and as such, this is one of my all time favorite Jackie Chan films. It's a simple story about Chan and two very hot women (later on, a third one joins!) who are sent to Africa to find an old Nazi gold base and get the gold out before the European nations begin to quarrel over it. What they are not told (but Chan finds out really quickly) is that there are a few other small factions of criminals after it also.The movie opens with a great Indiana Jones parody, which is more than enough to get you used to Jackie Chan's character. The other characters are either comic support, or stuntmen in which a few can act well enough to say a few lines before they get beaten up in some of Jackie's coolest action ever.
This movie quite possibly contains more action than any other Chan movie, as every scene is either a fight scene or a setup for one. It is high charged, whitty and fast; hey, it was written, directed and co-produced by Jackie Chan himself! Now with the DVD version, you can see more via widescreen, and the added detail really adds to both the picture and intensity, for there were badguys standing next to Jackie when he was beating up one of their mates that you can't see on the VHS version. If you want cool, fast or funny action, get this movie; hell, it's all three! Trust me, it's great.
Summary of Operation Condor
Get ready for Jackie Chan's most spectacular adventure ever -- starring and directed by Chan himself! Risking everything and performing all his own death-defying stunts, Chan ignites the big screen as the world's greatest secret agent, code name Condor. Sent to track down stolen Nazi gold buried beneath the Sahara, Condor is pursued by a ruthless band of treasure-hunting terrorists. With the help of three sexy sidekicks, Jackie takes off on a globe-spanning chase ... in an incredible quest to reach the hidden bounty first! It's going to be an action-packed fight right up to the explosive climax ... and you won't want to miss one minute of the thrills!Years before he became a genuine Hollywood action star in Rush Hour, Jackie Chan played a daredevil secret agent out to recover a lost cache of Nazi gold, in this globe-trotting 1990 action comedy--with a trio of beautiful women at his side (one Chinese, one Japanese, and one German) and a stereotyped bumbling Arab terrorist hot on his heels. Condor is still one of the most expensive Hong Kong movies ever made, and looks it: there are actual Spanish castles and huge vistas of North African desert sand. (Months later, several planeloads of the stuff were shipped back to Hong Kong for some pick-up shots). A full-size set depicting an underground German wind tunnel was constructed on a Hong Kong sound stage. But there's also an extended car-and-motorcycle chase that employs an obvious stunt double, and episodes of bawdy farce (trimmed for the U.S. release) that feel like padding. Chan was already 36 when he directed this superstar vehicle, and he'd sensibly decided to soft-peddle the hard action stunt work---until the finale, that is, an all-out head-kicking kung-fu battle that moves back and forth across huge seesawing slabs of clockwork machinery. Chan seems to be working harder than ever in other areas, too; he's never given a more energetic or engaging comic performance. For pure mind-boggling entertainment value, the peak Jackie experiences are still Project A Part II, and the original Police Story and its semi-sequel, Supercop, in which Chan costarred with Tomorrow Never Dies Bond girl Michelle Yeoh. --David Chute
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