Wow! Such a good movie.

An action-packed slog

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Fantasy Mission Force is complete lunacy. By any sane reasoning, it's absolutely dreadful, but it's nevertheless ridiculously entertaining. Jackie only makes brief appearances, and Jimmy Wang Yu thankfully stays off screen for most of the film. The film never once makes any sense, and the "humour" is dreadful even by the standards of lowbrow 80s Hong Kong/Taiwan. It being subtitled rather than dubbed made no difference whatsoever.It's definitely a film to laugh at, not with, and I really wouldn't have it any other way. Were it a slightly better film, it would just be another generic low-budget action film. Instead we have a film that rivals Ed Wood for sheer ineptness and resembles a Chinese take on the bizarre post-Apocalypse movies that came out of Italy after Mad Max hit big.

Possibly the most insane Jackie Chan vehicle, "Fantasy Mission Force" begins with a bearded General with a monocle deciding who is going to be part of a commando group. He shows the people in the room a slide show of James Bond, a man resembling Snake Plissken and Sylvester Stallone as Rocky. After stating that "James Bond is not available, he's in a different country", and "Rocky is not part of a military operation!", he is cut off in mid-sentence by the title, credits and song. It then goes to a bar where people are singing and dancing.Are you confused? That's okay, it's all part of the nonsensical fun.Next we have Jackie Chan (in this outing as "Jacky") fighting a sumo wrestler. He did fifteen years in jail "for gambling". It then cuts to a Monty Python-style parade of Chinese Scottish people in kilts and playing bagpipes. The "Fantasy Mission Force" consists of a few people walking around outside. They then find a haunted house with a floating head. Then there are "yellow-hooded Nazis".This movie is a jumble of crazy ideas, sped-up martial arts, bad dubbing (Jackie Chan sounds like a girl) and jagged editing. It's rare that you see a movie where absolutely nothing makes any sense whatsoever. There are some fight scenes at the end that are somewhat "normal" but "Fantasy Mission Force" is one silly, zany scene after another. If that sounds like your cup of tea, see it if you get the chance! For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

There are certain words that trigger an instant interest in a movie. Spellbinding, Magical, Mysterious, Edge-of-your-seat-action, Kick-ASS. This movie is none of those things. What it is, however, is the greatest combination of complete amateur cinematography, 1970's automobiles and a collection of statesmen from across vast time periods. All of these things come together to ward off the advances of the Japanese. The Japanese do not make an appearance in this movie, but the Japanese are expensive and the budget for this movie could have been spent entirely in a dollar store (if they existed in the 70's) and the leftover failures from a demolition derby. This movie was all that is fantastic about action movies and China. The heart-wrenching end (I should have put that in the list above) was probably the most distressing thing I have ever seen, knowing the reappearance of these characters will be unlikely. Alas, there are no words that can summarize this movie. If I say "bad" people will say it's a bad movie. Which is certainly is not. If I say "good" people will expect something well done, and Fantasy Mission Force is anything but that. The only thing I can say is watch it. From beginning to end. Do not stop, do not look back or rewind looking for answers. Watch it from beginning to end and all will be made clear.

Mmmmmmmm............bit of a weird film.I don't think the language barrier counts in my lack of understanding of this film, to be honest. I think if they replaced the actors with Peter Ustinov and Lawrence Olivier, I would still be a confused little beastie about the movie I had just seen.Plot - There is NO PLOT in this film. A bunch of guys come together to fight another bunch of guys, and to make the characters as varied as they are is quite a ridiculous notion. They are all so different, that it's like watching a strange dream played out in front of you - you know the kind where a person changes into someone else, and you don't notice until you wake up.The script is rubbish. Like I've said, there is no plot.Lots of things blow up and lots of people die, but there isn't much kung-fu in this film, unfortunately. The parts that you see Jackie Chan fighting in are decent, but don't last long enough for a fan of Chan.The soundtrack sounds like the director took his favourite TV shows and used their soundtracks for his movie. I could have sworn I heard the Benny Hill chase music at some point.Never watch this film if you are normal. If you are insane, or on drugs, this film must be enjoyable. But you shouldn't take drugs, and you definitely shouldn't watch this film.