		Year: 1986 Director: Jackie Chan Starring: Jackie Chan, Alan Tam, Rosamund Kwan Genre: Action/martial arts Literal title translation: 'Dragon Elder Brother, Tiger Younger Brother'

Similar to 'Indiana Jones', 'Armour of God' stars Jackie Chan as Asian Hawk an adventurer who's childhood sweetheart is kidnapped. The kidnappers (an evil religious cult) demand that Jackie hand over to them The Armour of God which is an ancient artifact. Along for the ride are Jackie's old friend (Alan Tam) and a rich collectors daughter (Lola Forner).

This film is probably best remembered as being the film that nearly killed Jackie Chan. In a stunt gone wrong (showed in the outtakes) Jackie falls from a tree onto some jagged rocks. This left him needing a metal plate in his head which he still has today. As an unfortunate consequence of this accident the film's continuity suffers as Jackie is seen first with short hair and then in the next shot has long hair! Apparently Jackie believed that if he lost his hair he lost his luck so grew it back when filming resumed. He also cites this film as his adopted child as after Eric Tsang (the original director) left, and Jackie took the directional reigns. For the most part this is a very entertaining hour and a half which comes alive in the final reel. Jackie takes on a room full of monks and then disposes of four high kicking women (and he doesn't pull his punches on them). The film does slow down a bit though, after the initial action sequence and some of it was obviously filmed with a tight deadline. The camera filter is visible in a number of shots and the freefall onto an air balloon at the end is quite obviously on the ground.

Overall then, some top quality fighting and funny asides which is let down by being poorly filmed in places. The supporting cast are good at sharing comedy routines with Jackie and he looks more of a hero and a fighter here than usual. Could have had a bit more time spent on it but at the end of the day you won't be disappointed with this slice of classic Jackie.