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Eastern Condors (US Version) ~ Angela Mao | Joyce Godenzi
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| EASTERN CONDORS is director Sammo Hung's high-energy version of THE DIRTY DOZEN. To win their freedom, a group of hardened Asian convicts agree to go on a suicidal mission to Vietnam and destroy an abandoned ammunitions dump before the Vietcong discovers it. Along the way, the men run into a trio of female freedom fighters and a freewheeling martial artist named Rat, played by Hung's Peking Opera "brother," Yuen Biao. The film borrows liberally from other Vietnam war movies (the Russian roulette scene from THE DEER HUNTER, for instance), but there are plenty of imaginative turns, including an instance when Hung uses leaves as deadly projectiles. As is typical in Hung's films, the action choreography is fluid and energetic. Hung's wife, Joyce Godenzi, plays one of the Cambodian guerrillas, Oscar-winner Haing S. Ngor (THE KILLING FIELDS) appears as a mentally deranged peasant, and Yuen Wah (Hung's and Biao's other stage brother) gives a quirky performance as the relentless commander of the Vietcong forces. |
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| | Product Title | : | Eastern Condors (US Version) | | Region Code | : |  (What is it?) | | Picture Format | : |  (What is it?) | | Artist Name(s) | : | Angela Mao | Joyce Godenzi | Corey Yuen | | Release Date | : | December 30, 2003 | | Language | : | English | | Subtitle | : | English | | Rating | : | Not Rated | | Package Weight | : | 99 g | | Publisher | : | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | | YesAsia Catalog No. | : | 1004415098 | | Shipment Unit | : | 1 (What is it?) |
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Like many a film from the island of Hong Kong, Eastern Condors is undeniably influenced by western films that come before it. Sammo Hung's actioner is a mix of every Vietnam War film you can think of and I counted direct steals from The Deer Hunter and Rambo 2, with possible nods to even more. As a piece of knock off entertainment, the film is lots of fun and even boasts a decidedly broad comic performance from Oscar winner Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields). Using these familiar influences, Hung gathers his usual collaborators together and delivers a cross between all those films and The Dirty Dozen. Most of all this is not a film to take seriously and any dramatic resonance or meaningful opinion contained herein is wholly unintentional! Taking its set-up directly from Robert Aldrich's original movie, a group of ten criminal Chinese American soldiers are sent to Vietnam to carry out a decoy raid whilst another posse carries out a real top secret raid... [Read more]
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