Armour of God was the first Jackie Chan movie I saw many years ago and even now it still never fails to impresses me. Jackie puts a lot of effort into his movies and this is a shinning example of just that.

Sort of a double plotter movie, Armour of God on one hand has Jackie playing a shady treasure hunter known as the ‘Asian Hawk’. He is commissioned by a rich antique collector to find and retrieve the legendary ‘Armour of God’. On the other hand, one of Jackie’s old friends ( Alan Tam ) needs him to help get his kidnapped girlfriend ( Rosamund Kwon ) back from a mountain top religious cult. Their ransom: The Armour of God.

The neat fight scenes at the start and half way through the movie won’t prepare you for the brilliant fight scene at the end of the movie where besides taking out about a million men, Jackie has to fight the guardians of the Armour of God - four vicious, high heeled, screaming women. And believe me, when you see those high heels, you’re gonna feel sorry for Jackie!

A comical turn at the end of the movie also had me laughing loud and I thought its inclusion to the movie really made it shine!

One down side of Armour of God is that while filming the beginning scene, Jackie missed the tree he was supposed to jump into and fell four stories, smashing his head on rocks and giving himself a brain hemorrhage. He was rushed to hospital with blood pouring from his ears and had emergency brain surgery there. He was very lucky to live through it. Less that two months later he was back and finished what was a great movie.

Armour of God also features plenty of great stunts, the end one being the best in the movie. Overall, a great and really entertainment movie.

I give Armour of God 7.5/10