Simply Perfect

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Fantasy Mission Force is a unique film directed by Chu Yen-Ping. Debates on if his movies are "good" continue. There seem to be three reasons why people may dislike this movie: (1) Jackie Chan is barely in it. (2) The DVD releases are terrible. (3) They don't realize that this movie knows what it's doing (This sentence will make more sense later on).People may be disappointed that the movie that they spent $2 on barely has the actor that they wanted to see: Jackie Chan. The reason for Jackie Chan being on the covers of literally every single DVD of this movie is because of marketing. Besides, how else are they going to attract people to these terrible DVD releases? Usually the DVD releases for this movie are full screen, English dubbed, and VHS quality. This plays a big factor in the "crappy- ness" of this film. I would imagine that if this movie had been widescreen, re-mastered, and in it's original language, this movie could've been enjoyed more. The Malaysian DVD and the German DVD seem to be liked more. I also look forward to the day that this movie gets released on Blu-ray. Don't worry, it's coming.In my opinion, this is a movie that knows what it's doing. Let me explain. This movie knows that it's bad and decides to take advantage of what they can get away with. So what if this movie isn't historically accurate? This is a movie that's so ridiculous that saying if it's good or bad doesn't matter. The question you should be asking yourself shouldn't be is this movie good or bad, but instead you should be asking yourself is this movie entertaining. Well, it IS entertaining.Simple pleasures come from this movie. I do realize that some of the jokes are esoteric to most audiences (even esoteric to Chinese audiences), but the movie is still entertaining. Seeing where some of these actors went after this movie can be fun. The actor who played Old Sun became an actor in City on Fire. The actress who played Lily was later in Police Story with Jackie Chan. Speaking of which, isn't it incredible that Jackie Chan didn't let this movie ruin his career? As much as it seems like I'm praising this movie, it's still ridiculous and nonsensical for most audiences so I do understand where the tremendous amount of hate towards this movie comes from. But what I'm trying to say is that the people who hate this movie are taking it too seriously. I don't know how to rate this movie; I'm kind of split, but I think we can all agree that this movie desperately needs to have a Blu-ray release. It'll happen someday. I promise...

Fantasy Mission ForceGenre: Martial Arts, War, Horror, Comedy Released: 1982 Director: Chu Yin Ping Starring: Jackie Chan (according to the cover)There are movies that are good to go and see in the cinema, expensive spectacles of light and CGI, impressive acting and intrinsic plot twists, films you walk away from full of hope for the future of the moving picture. Other pictures are just good to watch when you are either stoned and/or drunk. Fantasy Mission Force is one of those films. In fact, it could well be the God of the stoner film. Jackie Chan did this film as a favour to Jimmy Wang Yu, who it's said helped him out with some Triad problems, and only appears here and there throughout the movie. Which is a good thing for Jackie. Our story takes place during World War 2, and begins with Jimmy Wang massacring the Japanese with a machine gun while driving around in a jeep. On returning to base, he is given a mission to rescue General Abraham Lincoln from the Japanese in Luxemburg, and to do so he has to gather a crack team of non-army folks from various locations in Europe. After a quick musical number in Chinese (the rest of the film is dubbed), Jimmy captures his first team member by luring him with food, grabs another who's just escaped from a Chinese jail (in Europe), and bags a violent assassin couple by almost killing them first. The female part of this couple bazookas her house before she goes for some reason, and the whole gang, including a comedy duo, set off for Luxemburg in a jeep. Jacky (as it's spelt here) is a hustler, bumping people for money by duping them into fights or something. It's hard to tell. After making a large amount of cash, the local chief of police takes it off him and Jackie, missus in tow, sets off into the wilderness scant. Our heroes, crossing marshland, are attacked by masked Amazon warriors, and Jimmy is killed. Nevertheless, our heroes plod on, only to get themselves captured by the Amazons, who live in a complex riverside bamboo village (in Europe). A tuxedo-clad James Bong type rules these chicks, and wants to kill the male half of our heroic gang. Luckily, they are rescued in a hailstorm of explosions and run off to the next mental part of the film. Jackie joins in the action for a bit again here, fighting with a live chicken in his arms (chicken NOT chuffed by the looks of it), and then goes away again. Next up our heroes find themselves kipping overnight in a house full of Chinese ghosts, which leads to many bizarre scenes, including one of the heroes settling down to play cards with two ghosts, and a dinner party involving loads of scary claws taking the pish out of another character. Somehow one of the characters ends up dressed in armour and swinging a morning star about, and they all finally end up at their end destination, only to find they've been double crossed by Jimmy Wang Yu, who is still alive. However, the cast of Mad Max turn up in seventies cars (during WWII) adorned with swastikas, and a huge battle breaks out. Our heroes are all killed in surprisingly violent and gory ways, including the comedy relief who is impaled by a sword shoved up his back door! Jackie appears and sorts out the rest of the baddies, including Jimmy Wang, and the whole film just stops as if someone has switched of the DVD for you. Fantasy Mission Force goes where not even films like Zombie Flesh Eaters would dare. Two minutes into the film sanity hails a cab and gets right out of town, leaving you watching a Nazi Kong FUD horror fantasy film which is so insane you have no idea where it's going to go next. The dialogue is hilarious, the acting diabolical, and the plot developments thought out by someone on heavy sedatives. Don't buy it to see Jackie Chan, because you'll feel let down, buy it because you need to see one the craziest films in existence.

This is the silliest, most over the top, insane movie I have ever seen! It has it all; a musical number, amazons, wizards, Nazis, and even a haunted house. The first time I saw this movie half way through, I realized that I could no longer be supprized, I was waiting for the robot pirate ninja Martians to make an appearance! Too often I think movies try too hard and as a result damage or sometimes even destroy themselves in their own pretentiousness. The people that made this movie knew exactly what it was. In order to fully appreciate this film you HAVE to be in the right mind set because it's just so silly. So if your in the mood for a wild and crazy film; check it out:)

I saw this movie in a bin at the local department store. I remember thinking "wow a Jackie Chan movie for 4.99" Little did I know that Jackie only has a small role,(His face was all over the DVD case). When I got home I watched the movie and it made no sense at all. It was supposed to take place During world war two and there was a guy who looked like Abe Lincoln and the allied forces were talking about sending 007 in (There was a sean connery photo) to rescue the generals and they mentioned Snake Plisskin and even Rocky Balboa. That was weird enough. But it got worse when in another scene, cars obviosly from the 70s came driving up with a gang in them. I gave up and turned the DVD player off. I never watched the movie since. These are just my views though...