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A.k.a.
Fantasy Mission Force
Year
1983
Runtime
90 min.
Director
Yen-ping Chu
Genres
Action, Crime, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller, War
Rating *
4.7
Votes *
1,087
Checks
150
Favs
4
Dislikes
11
Favs/checks
2.7% (1:38)
Favs/dislikes
1:3
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  1. Pete Concrete's avatar

    Pete Concrete

    Quite possibly the greatest achievement in the history of motion pictures. 9 years ago
  2. Siskoid's avatar

    Siskoid

    Fantasy Mission Force is one of the discs in a cheap Jackie Chan collection, obviously copied off a bad VHS cassette (some tape skips and even a blue programming screen at one point, and of course, all in the most atrocious English dub), but this thing is awful even if the copy had been pristine. So bad, it's good. It features major talent, including Jacky (sic) Chan, Brigitte Lin (the Bride with White Hair!) and Jimmy Yu (the One-Armed Swordsman!) in a broad, spoofy type of comedy that's an ancestor to things like Kung Fu Hustle. The genre, initially a Dirty Dozen or A-Team WWII sort of thing, keeps changing to accommodate whatever parodies the script would like to tackle, including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Mr. Vampire (so our Halloween month is preserved!) and Apocalypse Now (if Kurtz was in the jungle with Amazon ninja sex slaves). Jackie has a secondary role, but does his stuff when he can, and it's Brigitte Lin who really kicks ass. Unfortunately, the production values are TERRIBLE. The Amazons turn into men whenever a stunt is called for (explaining the bag over their heads in all action scenes), it looks like they raided a costume shop and grabbed anything they could (kilts, plastic armor, Elvis suits, Nazi uniforms, Mexican banditos, nothing matches), most of the production is shot from a wide, artless angle, and the editing either indulges too slow a pace or is marred by confusing cuts. Hilariously, the camp the soldiers have to raid appears to be in Nunavut (or at the time, the Canada's Northwest Territories), which I hadn't realized looked kind of like the jungles of Thailand. It's so full of mistakes, you just can't tell what's meant to be a joke. And it may just end up a little too violently for the comedy to really work, in retrospect. 8 years 9 months ago
  3. Ostenski's avatar

    Ostenski

    This is the finest movie ever shot. 13 years 1 month ago
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