"Jackie’s Gold"
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What You Need To Know:
This is an action movie that plays like a comedy. The villains are bumbling fools and much of the physical comedy is sped up. Jackie exudes the most humor by showing great emotion on his face in the face of difficult odds. He is an every man with great humanity, which accounts for his universal appeal. Rated PG-13, it has very little foul language and doesn’t contain graphic sex. Unlike many action heroes who make the time to woo women, Jackie is too busy fighting. Containing many references to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, OPERATION CONDOR represents an exciting, if not completely original, action film in a summer full of clones and sequels.
Content:
(B, L, VVV, S, N, D, M) Light moral worldview of good overcoming evil & greed coming to naught; 1 obscenity & 1 profanity; extensive action violence with no bloodshed or deaths including fist-fighting, kick boxing, fighting with sticks, explosions, gunfire into the air, & chase scenes; brief sexual innuendo; naturalistic rear female nudity & brief scene of woman in underwear; smoking; and, brief image of Muslim’s praying, image of corpse & reference to condom use
More Detail:
Unknown in America a couple of years ago, Jackie Chan has recently become a welcome action hero on these shores. His trademark is that he performs all of his own stunts, and each movie has him performing a newer and more difficult feat. He also performs cat like moves during fight scenes and uses normal everyday objects as his weapons. He surpasses today’s gun toting action star by using speed, agility, quick thinking, and common sense. It is rare to find him actually kill an opponent, but rather he knocks out a foe with a kick or punch.
OPERATION CONDOR is his latest release in America. (It was released several years earlier overseas and is available on video.) Here, secret agent Jackie, code name: Condor, is called to the American embassy in Madrid to meet with a United Nations representative. Jackie is handed a dangerous assignment. There are 240 tons of gold buried beneath the sand of the Sahara. Placed there by the National Socialists (Nazis) after WWII, a group of modern international terrorists want it. The U.N. wants Jackie to recover the secret stash before the terrorists get it.
Originally, Jackie is aided by an interpreter and guide, named Ada (Carol Cheng), a beautiful Chinese woman. Eventually, Jackie is joined by two more beautiful women, Elsa (Eva Cobo De Garcia), grand daughter of one of the original Nazis, and Momoko, (Shoko Ikeda), a traveler in Egypt. Jackie foils the Nazis and Middle Eastern gold diggers through physical strength and agility, plus such novelties as faking death by scorpion bite, distracting the villains by disrobing and using a giant wind machine to throw the villains against a wall. In the subterranean lair of gold, Jackie and his companions become bedazzled by the gold as well, hoping to make off with some of it, but all their greed is foiled, and Jackie must repent for his selfishness.
This is an action movie that plays like a comedy or is it a comedy that plays like an action movie? The villains are bumbling fools as in HOME ALONE, and much of the physical comedy is sped up like THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY. Jackie himself exudes the most humor by showing great emotion on his face in the face of difficult odds. He is an every man, with great humanity, which accounts for his universal appeal.
Though this movie is already available on video, it is still one of the freshest action movies this summer. In a season where many studio executives are justifying their poor performances, this movie will probably become successful because it was made with imagination and spunk, not a committee, or a vague idea of what people want. This movie differs slightly from the video in that it is edited to make the pacing a little quicker, and there is new music.
Rated PG-13, it has very little any foul language and doesn’t have any sexual activity. Perhaps the most shocking scene is where Jackie performs a politically incorrect move by ripping a towel from one of his female companions to momentarily distract the villains. The audience only sees her backside, but the villains get an eyeful. Unlike many action heroes who make the time to woo women, Jackie is too busy fighting to seduce a young lady.
Ultimately, this movie contains a moral message stating that sometimes people mix up their needs with their “greeds”. Containing many references to RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, OPERATION CONDOR represents an exciting, if not completely original, action film in a summer full of clones and sequels.
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