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I love Jackie Chan. He is often compared to Gene Kelly for his artistry with his body, and rightfully so. Operation Condor is one of many older Chan movies being dusted off and rereleased in the US with English dubbing and a new soundtrack. I believe this one came out in Hong Kong in 1991.
It's a parody/homage of the Indiana Jones franchise, complete with idol-robbing Nazis, and spear-chucking desert folk. However, unlike First Strike and Supercop (Police Story 3) and even Rumble in the Bronx, Condor is less about the amazing things Jackie can do than the amazing places they have him doing things in. |
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Don't worry, there is plenty to amaze you and planty of serious injuries in the outtakes, but the intricate choreography of say, his ladder fight or the refrigerator/shopping cart dance of death, is lost in favor of a quick leap and a quick kick but WOW we're in a Nazi munitions dump! COOL we're in a remote desert marketplace! HOLY MACKEREL we're in a real working wind tunnel (this was the best scene, both for humor and for WOW COOL HOLY MACKEREL). |
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Chan directs this feature, and maybe that is why he spends less time on himself than his other director, Stanley Tong, does. The humor is present but much goofier, and Jackie's character isn't as well developed as in the other films released in the US so far. It's still a Jackie Chan movie and for that, you should go. Herein Austin it was playing in what we call the Lincoln "puppet theatre" - a smaller non-THX annex usually relegated to late-runs and low-box office draws. There are plenty of beautiful women and really spiffy props and locations, but not enough Jackie.
Encourage the studio to keep releasing these great movies, go see Operation Condor.
karina |
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