Year: 1983
Plot: Chan plays a wiry slab of pirate-busting Marine muscle, but loses favour with the corrupt local cops when a mission to break up a shady arms deal lands him in the political (and, more worryingly, literal) crossfire.
Predictably enough, he whoops a boatload of ass and ends up smelling of roses. Well, roses and henchman brain.
Trivia: This was one of a series of early-to-mid-80s flicks that Chan tried to keep somewhat under wraps by giving it a blandly ambiguous name.
Earlier Chan flick titles frequently included such words as 'snake' or 'drunk' - both legit kung fu styles - and were thus adjudged by hardcore aficionados to be giving too much away too soon.
Check out the Total Film page on Chan's latest, The Karate Kid (2010), over here.
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Serrano
Jul 30th 2010, 16:24
Fantasy Mission Force is easily my favourite Jackie Chan film. I am not kidding.
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Hadouken76
Aug 1st 2010, 10:03
Armour of God 1 & 2, Snake in the Eagles shadow. Classic Chan.
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hago1
Aug 1st 2010, 10:47
No mention of Shanghai Noon/Shanghai Knights?
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Carl1984
Aug 1st 2010, 23:13
I am a self proclaimed massive fan of Jackie's I have every one of his films (some more then once), I also have his Hong Kong albums, books, magazines, posters ect anyway about this list I agree with some of the worst ones for instance Police Woman (A.K.A Rumble In Hong Kong) and Fantasy Mission Force deserve to be in the wost list completely also sorry to say so does The Tuxedo and The Medallion if them two had a better story they wouldn't be there. The other three Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu, Master With Cracked Fingers and Battle Creek Brawl (A.K.A The Big Brawl) don't deserve to be there. You've missed a few off the best list i.e New Police Story, The Myth, Rob-B-Hood and Shinjuku Incident. As for Drunken Master 2 it does deserve to be in the best list but the only thing that annoys me is it has never been released in the UK and I've never found a reason why.
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