Directed by and starring beloved Hong Kong action guru Sammo Hung, Eastern Condors remains to this day one of Hung’s most popular films. Co-starring the almost as famous eighties HK star Yuen Biao ( Zu: Warriors from Magic Mountain) and the late Haing S. Ngor (The Killing Fields). A gang of convicted Chinese-American hoodlums are offered a huge sum of money and legal residency in the states if they will venture deep into the Vietnamese jungle to blow up a secret munitions dump American soldiers left behind after their exit from the conflict. The men accept and join up with female Cambodian guerrillas (including Joyce Godenzi, The Seventh Curse) to assault the now Vietcong-held site. Insanely enjoyable!
“A world-class war movie that recalls everything from certified tough-guy classics like The Dirty Dozen to Sylvester Stallone’s silly Rambo epics (with a dash of Michael Cimino’s harrowing The Deer Hunter thrown in for good measure), Eastern Condors is an absurdly entertaining head rush of ultra-violent martial mayhem, campy humor, manly melodrama, and phenomenal stuntwork guaranteed to have Hong Kong action fanatics leaping out of their seats with excitement… over-the-top in the best sense” – Joey O’Bryan, The Austin Chronicle
