Lola Forner as May Bannon, the daughter of a powerful European Count.Alan Tam as Alan, a former member of The Losers who has moved on to a successful solo career."Asian Hawk", a common treasure hunter and former member of the pop group "The Losers" (an allusion to '70s Cantopop band The Wynners) In a daring move, Jackie does a base jump off the cave and lands on top of the balloon, ending the movie. He runs out of a cave and spots a hot-air balloon with Alan, Lorelei, and May aboard. After a couple of bluffs, he carelessly lights up the fuse and throws away the sticks of dynamite, running for his life as the monastery quickly begins to cave in, burying the entire cult and the Armour of God. Jackie is then surrounded by the rest of the Grand Wizard's men, but he reveals a vest filled with sticks of dynamite under his jacket, threatening to blow himself up with the monastery. Exploiting their high-heeled shoes as their weakness, Jackie defeats the assassins in a gruelling fight. Before he gets a chance to take the armour, he encounters the Grand Wizard, who unleashes his four female assassins on the adventurer. As Alan and Lorelei make their escape, Jackie fends off against the cult members before discovering the Armour of God in a cave. Jackie sneaks back to the monastery and rescues his friends. At May's rest home, Lorelei drugs Alan and has him steal the three armour pieces. They infiltrate the hideout and secretly rescue Lorelei, unaware that the cult leaders have anticipated their arrival and brainwashed her to do their bidding. Jackie, Alan and May travel into Yugoslavia to find the cult's monastery.
Jackie and Alan strike a deal with Count Bannon, who is in possession of the three armour pieces: they will borrow the armour pieces for their quest to rescue Lorelei with a promise to complete the armour for the Count, on the condition that May accompanies them. 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, including the sword. He is reunited with his former bandmate Alan, who seeks his help as his girlfriend Lorelei has been kidnapped by an evil religious cult as a means of acquiring Jackie's services. After successfully stealing a sword from an African tribe, he has the weapon auctioned before it is won by May Bannon, the beautiful daughter of Count Bannon. "Asian Hawk", is a former musician who becomes an adventurer and treasure hunter.
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It also inspired several other action-adventure films starring Jackie Chan, including The Medallion (2003), The Myth (2005), CZ12 (2012) and Kung Fu Yoga (2017) as well as the cartoon series Jackie Chan Adventures. It was followed by the sequel Armour of God II: Operation Condor in 1991. The film was the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong at the time, grossing an estimated US$16,300,000 (equivalent to $40,000,000 in 2021) at the box office in Asia and Europe. Chan came the closest he had ever been to death in this film during a relatively routine stunt he leaped onto a tree from a ledge, but the branch he grabbed snapped, sending Chan plummeting and cracking his skull. The film combines Chan's martial arts, comedy and stunts with an Indiana Jones style adventure film theme and is deemed a cult classic. The film co-stars Alan Tam, Lola Forner and Rosamund Kwan. Solve puzzles, discover hidden clues, collect the secret keys, prove that you are worthy by passing the extraordinary challenges from the guardians, learn the secret to the Gates of Good and Evil, and save the world from total destruction.Armour of God ( Chinese: 龍兄虎弟) is a 1986 Hong Kong action- comedy written and directed by Jackie Chan, who also starred in the film in the lead role. In addition to finding each key, she must also prove that she is worthy of possessing them by passing various ordeals prepared for her by guardian spirits of the gates. After obtaining the first key, the Key of Knowledge, Laura learns that she’s the chosen one and must use portal to restore harmony on the planet.īefore she can enter the portal, Laura must find the six sacred keys to the gates that protect it. As always, when it comes to things that can control the world, evil is never far behind. According to legend, anyone in the portal can control the balance of energy to these sacred powers, which in turn affects everyone in the world. The ancient talisman turns to be one of the keys to legendary gates that safeguard an ancient portal – the source of the sacred powers of Art, Love, Strength, Will, Talent and Knowledge. William Adams, receives a mysterious letter explaining that Adams had discovered an ancient talisman. The adventure begins when Laura Jones, an assistant to the famous archeologist Dr.
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