Armour of God: Video Review | The Stunt

Jackie Chan stars as Asian Hawk, an Indiana Jones-style adventurer looking to make a fortune in exotic antiquities. After Hawk discovers a mysterious sword in Africa, a band of Satan-worshipping monks kidnaps his ex-girlfriend Lorelei, demanding the sword as ransom as well as other pieces of the legendary Armour of God – a magical outfit dating back to the Crusades.

Greg and Sam review and discuss Jackie Chan’s Armour of God AKA The Armour of the Gods AKA Operation Condor 2 AKA Operation Condor 2: The Armour of the Gods AKA Operation Condor 2: Amour of God AKA… you get the idea. This kung fu, martial arts adventure blends Indiana Jones and James Bond tropes with a couple of Jackie Chan’s biggest stunts.

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Anyone who is a fan of Jackie Chan knows, he has always insisted on doing all his own stunts. While amazing to watch on the big screen, he has paid the price with broken bones, a dislocated pelvis, and second-degree burns an assortment of other injuries. But it was a nasty fall during the filming of ‘Armour of God’ that almost ended his stunt career.

In an interview he did with Yahoo in 2017, Jackie Chan recalls almost dying after drinking beer in a scene and falling from a tree while making ‘Armour of God’ “In the morning, I was drinking a beer in the movie,” Chan recounted to Yahoo Entertainment “In this day, I’d probably be drinking a water,” he explained, but since the scene required the fizz-pop of a beer can, Chan repeatedly cracked open brews and took a swig. “Then I jumped through a tree.” He crashed hard onto a rock. “My whole body was numb,” he said. His ear began bleeding. He was rushed to the hospital and found himself under the knife, where surgeons tended to his cracked skull and the bone that had penetrated his brain as a result of the fall. 

Luckily Jackie Chan made a full recovery and is still making movies and doing his own stunts.