July 7, 1987
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Armour Of God (1987) **
This Jackie Chan film has a few nifty car chases, but too few fight scenes. The sequel to this film, 1991's "Armour Of God II: Operation Condor" (released in America in 1997 as "Operation Condor") is much better.
An Autumn's Tale (1987) **
A romantic melodrama, with plenty of comic touches. A Hong Kong film set in New York, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Cherie Chung.
Eastern Condors (1987) **
Basically a Hong Kong remake of "The Dirty Dozen", with half a dozen hard-core criminals sent on dangerous military mission to Vietnam. Any film starring Samo Hung and Yuen Biao promises major kung-fu ass-kicking, but this one delivers memorable chop-socky goodies only in the last 10 minutes. Until then, it's just a boring, Rambo-like, jungle war movie, with plenty of gunfights and explosions.
City On Fire (1987) *
A really lousy crime film from Hong Kong, directed by Ringo Lam. It became famous in 1990's when "Film Threat" published an article falsely claiming that Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) was a remake of "City On Fire". In reality, aside from a very brief scene with robbers pointing guns at each other, there are very few similarities between those two films.
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