Year: 1982
Plot: The early-80s misses continue for Jackie here, although happily the superb Project A was by now just around the corner.
This might be the oddest of the movies in this list, ostensibly taking place during WWII but featuring such wanton WTF-ery as a cameo from someone called Abraham Lincoln, a haunted house full of pogoing blood-suckers, a parade of mid-70s US hotrods and a man dying by having his arse chopped off.
Actually, it sounds pretty brilliant on paper, doesn't it?
It's not.
Trivia: Once again, it doesn't really deserve to be called a Chan film, given the amount of time our hero actually spends in front of camera - although predictably enough, its marketing people seem oddly unperturbed by this fact.
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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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