Fantasy Mission Force

Buy This Item Fantasy Mission Force by Greatest Sports Legends  Available from Amazon  $3.99  on 11-27-2008     Jackie Chan makes a brief guest appearance in this surreally goofy action comedy, a high-spirited shambles from 1982 that hovers awkwardly somewhere between <i>Monty Python</i> and <i>The Three Stooges</i>. When all else fails, cult director Chu Yen-ping (<I>Island of Fire</I>) resorts to exploding cigars, guys making funny faces, men dressed in women's clothing, even a ghost or two. The nominal star, '70s kung fu veteran Wang Yu (<I>The One-Armed Swordsman</I>), is an Allied agent assembling a troupe of commandos for a mission behind enemy lines during World War II. (Although the landscape is obviously Asian, there are <I>Hogan's Heroes</I>-style Nazis scampering through the jungle.) Every member of this movie's mismatched clown-squad seems to hail from a different planet, including one inexplicable fellow who looks like an Elvis impersonator in a kilt. Most of the exhilarating action is handled by the glorious Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, from <I>Peking Opera Blues</I> and <I>The Bride with White Hair</I>, who kicks heads and looks smashing in a red-and-black-leather jumpsuit. <I>--David Chute</I> Reader Reviews I am not going to try to explain the story, because I had no idea what was going on. The Japanese are invading and the Chinese have to find someone to save 4 Generals that have been captured. They run through their options. Agent 007 is now working in South Africa, Karl Maka defected to the enemy, the Snake King is now dead, and Rocky Balboa is underqualified. So, they hire the one man army Jimmy Wang Yu. He gets a bunch of people including Jackie Chan and Brigitte Lin to help him on his mission. Then Wang Yu disappears for most of the movie and comes back for the final fight. The action is not bad, but it somehow gets worse as the movie goes on. The final fight is between Jimmy Wang Yu and Jackie Chan and it has horrible choreography and editing. Adam Cheng has a cameo in this movie and if the final fight was between him and Jackie, it could have been a lot better. But everything seems so rushed in this movie that the final fight would have been bad no matter who fought. 1/5 I have this movie in the Jackie Chan: Triple Punch Collectionand the picture quality is average at best.

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