Really Surprised!

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

There are some wacky elements here: Nazi muscle cars, Amazonian cannibals, vampires, Jackie Chan, all in remote parts of Canada and/or Luxembourg. And yet there is so little plot that these are only momentary surprises among almost entirely unremarkable fight scenes (the one exception was a worthwhile attack with vibrant ribbons that was eye catching and well crafted).

Fantasy Mission Force is a unique film directed by Chu Yen-Ping. Debates on if his movies are "good" continue. There seem to be three reasons why people may dislike this movie: (1) Jackie Chan is barely in it. (2) The DVD releases are terrible. (3) They don't realize that this movie knows what it's doing (This sentence will make more sense later on).People may be disappointed that the movie that they spent $2 on barely has the actor that they wanted to see: Jackie Chan. The reason for Jackie Chan being on the covers of literally every single DVD of this movie is because of marketing. Besides, how else are they going to attract people to these terrible DVD releases? Usually the DVD releases for this movie are full screen, English dubbed, and VHS quality. This plays a big factor in the "crappy- ness" of this film. I would imagine that if this movie had been widescreen, re-mastered, and in it's original language, this movie could've been enjoyed more. The Malaysian DVD and the German DVD seem to be liked more. I also look forward to the day that this movie gets released on Blu-ray. Don't worry, it's coming.In my opinion, this is a movie that knows what it's doing. Let me explain. This movie knows that it's bad and decides to take advantage of what they can get away with. So what if this movie isn't historically accurate? This is a movie that's so ridiculous that saying if it's good or bad doesn't matter. The question you should be asking yourself shouldn't be is this movie good or bad, but instead you should be asking yourself is this movie entertaining. Well, it IS entertaining.Simple pleasures come from this movie. I do realize that some of the jokes are esoteric to most audiences (even esoteric to Chinese audiences), but the movie is still entertaining. Seeing where some of these actors went after this movie can be fun. The actor who played Old Sun became an actor in City on Fire. The actress who played Lily was later in Police Story with Jackie Chan. Speaking of which, isn't it incredible that Jackie Chan didn't let this movie ruin his career? As much as it seems like I'm praising this movie, it's still ridiculous and nonsensical for most audiences so I do understand where the tremendous amount of hate towards this movie comes from. But what I'm trying to say is that the people who hate this movie are taking it too seriously. I don't know how to rate this movie; I'm kind of split, but I think we can all agree that this movie desperately needs to have a Blu-ray release. It'll happen someday. I promise...

Mmmmmmmm............bit of a weird film.I don't think the language barrier counts in my lack of understanding of this film, to be honest. I think if they replaced the actors with Peter Ustinov and Lawrence Olivier, I would still be a confused little beastie about the movie I had just seen.Plot - There is NO PLOT in this film. A bunch of guys come together to fight another bunch of guys, and to make the characters as varied as they are is quite a ridiculous notion. They are all so different, that it's like watching a strange dream played out in front of you - you know the kind where a person changes into someone else, and you don't notice until you wake up.The script is rubbish. Like I've said, there is no plot.Lots of things blow up and lots of people die, but there isn't much kung-fu in this film, unfortunately. The parts that you see Jackie Chan fighting in are decent, but don't last long enough for a fan of Chan.The soundtrack sounds like the director took his favourite TV shows and used their soundtracks for his movie. I could have sworn I heard the Benny Hill chase music at some point.Never watch this film if you are normal. If you are insane, or on drugs, this film must be enjoyable. But you shouldn't take drugs, and you definitely shouldn't watch this film.

Wow. Reviewing this movie is like reviewing someone else's hallucination. There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to it, no way to even know what I just saw, let alone how to describe it. It makes Yellow Submarine seem as coherent as Schindler's List.You owe it to yourself to watch this movie. Because you will sit in utter amazement, gaping throughout, wondering to yourself how, how is it possible that human beings could, or would, produce something this unbelievably awful. And at the same time you'll simply marvel at just how entertaining whatever this is, is.I give this movie 10/10, but only because there is nothing else like it on earth. It is so... unique, you just have to experience it before you die, or you will never have really lived. Like love, or a bad fever, no one can explain it to you, you just have to endure it yourself.The only relevant description I can offer is this: even the venerable folks at Mystery Science Theater 3000 never had the stamina to take on a film like this, but you can sure bet they wanted to. Enough said.Oh, and it has Jackie Chan. Sort of.