Year: 1979
Plot: A wholly unremarkable film, but for the fact that it's cobbled together from assorted chunks of earlier movie footage, resulting in a barely coherent mash-up at best.
In it, a wayward young martial arts-loving scamp (Chan) is taught some innovative new ways of crushing a man's windpipe by a shuffling old beggar-type, then goes off and uses his new-found powers against a street gang hassling his blah blah etc etc. Nothing new here whatsoever.
Trivia: The 1979 release date actually refers to the final re-edited version - various earlier edits had snuck out prior to this under a plethora of names including Little Tiger Of Canton and Snake Fist Fighter. Both of which are, frankly, considerably less stupid than what they eventually went with.
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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