Year: 1984
Plot: Surprisingly high-quality slapstick from Chan, Yuen Biao and director Sammo Hung sees Chan and Biao as cousins serving junk food to the population of Barcelona from the hatch in their van.
They both fall for the same chick, but must later cast aside any budding rivalry when she’s kidnapped and taken to a baddie-filled castle. Cue über-scrap, natch...
Trivia: During a particularly frantic bout of fisticuffs with kickboxer Benny Urquidez, the latter performs a spinning roundhouse with such force that he blows out a full candelabra – see 1:25 in the epic (if slightly SFX-heavy) scene above.
This film's eye-poppingly awful name was originally penned the right way around, but the team were forced to change it due to a growing studio superstition - both their previous flicks had names beginning with 'M', and both had flopped badly.
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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