Year: 1988
Plot: Chan again teams up with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, playing a lawyer in this loosely eco-themed punch-up between a shonky chemical firm and a local fishery.
Initially batting for the baddies, Chan's morally conflicted legal eagle switches sides after learning about the true, drug-peddling nature of the company that hired him.
(Part 1 of the full movie shown above.)
Trivia: According to the DVD commentary from Hong Kong cinema buff Bey Logan, the movie underperformed at the box office due to the three leads playing very much against their traditional character types.
Many female fans were so unwilling to view Chan, in particular, as a woman-chasing city slicker that they stayed away in droves. In fact, two fans attempted suicide after learning that, in real life, he wasn't the clownish perennial singleton we'd all come to root for on screen.
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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