Armour Of God

Released in 1986, Armour Of God was one of the first movies i saw of Jackie Chan, who wrote, directed and starred in what can be considered as one of his best works, not only does it have some of the best fight scenes in martial arts movie history, it can also be compared to a chinese Indiana Jones type movie, that takes you on spectacular adventure. Although Armour Of God might look dated nowadays, its still a good watch, for the great stunts, fight scenes and comedy aspects that Jackie Chan delivers well to the screen, which almost cost him his life, as he fell and hit his head on a rock whiles filming a stunt, this is why most of the movies middle part were more of a romantic comedy because production had to wait for Jackie to recover for the action scenes, and boy did he deliver in the end with an epic fight scene with four women, which is one of the best fight scenes ever in movie history, so look out for that.

Synopsis and trailer

Jackie, a.k.a. "Asian Hawk" (Jackie Chan), is a former musician who becomes an adventurer and treasure hunter, Jackie reunites with his former band mate Alan (Alan Tam), who seeks his help as his girlfriend Lorelei (Rosamund Kwan) has been kidnapped by an evil religious cult as a means of acquiring Jackie's services. The cult possesses two pieces of a legendary armour called the "Armour of God", and they intend to have Jackie bring them the three remaining armour pieces.

Directed by: Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang

Produced by: Leonard Ho, Chua Lam

Written by: Jackie Chan, John Sheppard, Eric Tsang

Starring: Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Lola Forner, Rosamund Kwan

Music by: Michael Lai, Tang Siu Lam

Cinematography: Peter Ngor, Robert Thompson, Arthur Wong, Cheung Yiu Cho

Edited by: Peter Cheung

Production company: Golden Harvest, Goldenway Films Ltd.
Distributed by: Golden Harvest, Media Asia

Running time: 1hr 37mins

Release dates: 1986 (Japan)

21 January 1987 (Hong Kong)