Mission Of Condor, a.k.a Angel Force a.k.a Mission Kill is a 1991 Hong Kong Girls with Guns action film starring Max Mok, Moon Lee and Simon Yam.
When a police raid seize his supplies of illegal arms, a crime lord known as "The Lion" (Simon) decides to get even by sending out his most trusted lieutenants, Panther and Wild Cat, to eliminate the members of the police force responsible for the mission. Among the personnel involved in the mission is Inspector "Rose" Wang (Moon) and her cousin "Orchid" (Wong Yee-Kam note ), who must team up with FBI agent Stephen (Max) sent from the United States to assist the Hong Kong police to take down the Lion.
The film's title actually comes from a scene partway through the movie after Stephen's introduction; being sent by the FBI, Rose comments if "The Condor is taking over this Mission".
Mission of Condor contains examples of:
- Abandoned Warehouse: Where the final action scene is set, with Rose and Stephen taking on Lion and his mooks.
- Action Girl: Rose and Orchid, the former which is played by Moon Lee. And there is also the Dark Action Girl Wild Cat, an elite assassin.
- Animal Motifs: The villains are named after felines, with the Big Bad being called Lion, his personal henchman called Panther, and the henchman’s Dark Action Girl lover called Wild Cat.
- Convenient Escape Boat: On the waterfront behind Lion’s Big Fancy House. During the police raid, Lion and a few of his mooks makes a run for the boat, with only Lion making it aboard and taking off.
- Deadly Doctor: At one point, Panther tries to assassinate a suspect, who’s assumed to be in a coma, by infiltrating the ward disguised as a doctor, and tries offing his target using a scalpel. But as he’s furiously stabbing the unconscious suspect, Panther realize his target is already dead and in rigor mortis, at which point Stephen shows up behind Panther to arrest him.
- Destination Defenestration: After Panther gets betrayed and shot in the back, and shouting for his lover Wild Cat to run, he ends up getting thrown out of a window by his killers… landing right in front of Wild Cat.
- Fingore: Wild Cat loses a finger when Lion, angry at her failure to kill off Rose and Orchid, suddenly whips out a knife and slashes her pinky.
- Flower Motifs: The two protagonists are named Rose and Orchid.
- Forklift Fu: In the final action scene, Lion, in a last-ditch attempt to kill Rose and Stephen, gets onto a nearby forklift and rams it towards his opponents. Rose had to make a wild dash through crates and containers blocking her way with Lion hot in pursuit, until Lion crashes the forklift through the back of the warehouse.
- Furo Scene: Wild Cat’s first scene had her taking a bubble bath in a jacuzzi, with Leg Focus and showing plenty of skin… and a bloodied knife beside the tub. The scene cuts to an adjacent room, where on the bed is Cat’s latest victim, a police commissioner wearing his bath robes, whose throat has been slashed by her moments earlier.
- I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You!: Inspector Chan unintentionally reveals himself to be working for Lion when Stephen reports to him about their informant’s death. Chan expresses regret that the informant was murdered (having ordered the hit himself), prompting Stephen to ask, "How did you know he was murdered?"
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Wild Cat, who has been loyal to Lion for two decades, only to realize how little she means to him, despite her being one of his personal henchmen, when he nonchalantly slices her finger off and sends assassins to kill her and Panther for daring to form a relationship without his knowledge.
- My Life Flashed Before My Eyes: Referenced by Orchid during the scene where she recovers in a hospital from a gunshot wound, waking up to see Rose and Stephen by her side, where Orchid confesses that she sees everything that happens in the past few weeks she spends with Rose and Stephen, and she is happy to have those memories with her if she passes on. But then again she survives the movie.
- Neck Snap: Wild Cat’s fate, after being defeated by Lion. Complete with Blood from the Mouth to confirm she’s Killed Off for Real.
- Never Bareheaded: Rose is noticeably always, always wearing something in her hair, in every scene she’s in, either a thick white hairband, or a scrunchie tying her hair into a Tomboyish Ponytail.
- Nerd Action Hero: Orchid, despite her gigantic Nerd Glasses, can kick plenty of ass and take on hordes of mooks, notably in the scene where Rose and Wild Cat have to fight each other, Orchid on the other hand goes guns-a-blazing against Wild Cat’s minions, and easily kills a dozen of them until they were forced to retreat.
- Nothing Up My Sleeve: Wild Cat keeps her knives in her sleeves and around her heels.
- Only a Flesh Wound: Subverted, in the shootout in Lion’s mansion Orchid gets shot in the shoulder, but she still passes out with Rose and Stephen grabbing on her and telling her to stay awake. While she did survive the movie, she’s put out of commission for the rest of the movie, including sitting out of the finale.
- Outlaw Couple: Panther and Wild Cat, the two personal minions of Lion, whom are actually lovers. They do plan to elope after their mission is complete, but they turn out to be Star-Crossed Lovers that can’t be together.
- Reassigned to Antarctica: Mentioned in Stephen’s introduction scene, where his FBI superior tells him that if he behaves impulsively on duty again, he will be reassigned to Ethiopia.
- Sinister Shades: Lion, the Big Bad, wears sunglasses in several scenes throughout the movie.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Lion’s eventual fate, trying to run over Rose with a forklift, only to end up snagging the vehicle's fork on a massive crate of explosive material before crashing it through the back of the warehouse… right where a whole team of policemen are waiting for him. The entire police force guns down Lion with around a hundred bullets, igniting the crate of explosives in front of Lion in the process and causing a huge explosion that turns his bullet-riddled body into flaming particles.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Lion, who orders his mooks to eliminate Panther and Wild Cat, killing the former, and later eliminating the latter all by himself when she comes back to confront him.
