Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: FANTASY MISSION FORCE
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2016
- Before Jackie Chan was a superstar in America, he starred in movies like "Fantasy Mission Force" (1983), one of the most bizarre films I've ever done on this show!
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The history of this movie was discussed in Jackie Chan's autobiography "Jackie Chan:My Life in Action". That "favor movie" kept Mr. Chan out of cluches of a powerful Chinese Triad criminal group.
Makes me glad Jackie got the recognition he did in America around the time Rumble In The Bronx came out and that because of that he became even more famous and wealthy. I grew up watching Jackie Chan, mostly his mid 80's to late 90's movies when I was but a child.
The story of Jackie Chan being in "Fantasy Mission Force" is that Jackie was stuck in a contract with Lo Wei, a movie director who had triad connections. When Jackie wanted out, Lo threatened him with the triads. Wang Yu, who also had triad connection got him out of said contract but as a favor to Wang Yu, Jackie had to star in this and another movie, 1990's "Island of Fire". P.S. "Super Inframan" is also actually a Hong Kong film too.
That's right! I forgot about that issue with the triads and all, seriously. Back in the day for A&E, they had a show called Biography and they did one on Jackie Chan. One of the things that were mentioned for the early 90's was how he and other actors in Hong Kong at the time, had a kind of demonstration to try and go against the bad triads that pulled stunts like this for him and Wang Yu.
I think that protest was against the rape of one movie star by a triad boss.
Protest... why didn't Jackie and teh action stars just kick their arse backed by a goverment force like a fantasy mission force!
@@kudosbudo Now THAT'S a movie I want to see
@@kudosbudo He did that already in multiple movies, but that's another story.
The favor that Wang Yu called in to get Jackie in the movie was that he negotiated a deal that saved Jackie from the Triads. They were attempting to strong arm Chan into going back to his crooked, original director Lo Wei. While this was going on Jackie was smuggled out of Hong Kong for about a year. There was even doubts that he would be allowed to return.
15:37 They're playing Mahjong. My mom used to play it with her friends back in the day, she even tried to teach me how to play but it was too complicated.
It's also in the video game judgement
Hey Brandon, big fan from Taiwan...
Just want to chip in my two cents... This was actually a Taiwanese movie, with the director and most of the cast members being Taiwanese. Back then the Taiwanese Mafia bosses had a shit load of money that needed laundering and they figured making movies are one of the good ways to do so... So the comments I saw here indicating Jacky Chen being in this movie due to the troubles he was in with the Triad was not exactly accurate, as there is still a difference between the Taiwanese Mafia and the Hong Kong Traid...
I mean, sure the Hong Kong Traid was definitely controlling the movie industries in Hong Kong, but this one is on the Taiwanese Mafia...
Yea, i aware that this movie is Taiwanese Movie
Co-operation with Hong Kong actually
And the Director, Chu Yen-Ping, i've heard about him from Never Too Late To Repent aka The First Error Step (1979)
The craziest thing about Fantasy Mission Force is that there's another movie called Fire Dragon (1987) which is essentially this movie, but with the scenes cut together differently and it's a somewhat different plot. You can find the movie on CZcams and you can tell that a majority of the scenes are shared between the 2 movies. All of the character introductions in Fantasy Mission Force are cut down into a backstory montage and the extra time goes to explaining the new plot. All the scenes with Jackie Chan's female partner in Fantasy Mission Force are entirely cut from Fire Dragon and instead, Jackie is just friends with Lily and the plot revolves around the Asian Nazis, no mention of Ally generals. They also spend a lot of time at the Amazonian camp and skip the haunted mansion bit. After the major shootout where everyone dies, the Asian Nazis get the money and the other new main character launches a raid on their camp with ninjas, I don't even remember the name of Fire Dragon's other main character. It's kind of like how Call of Duty Black Ops 3 had their campaign, but then it also had the zombies campaign where it had the same cut scenes, but with different dialogue which ended up changing the meaning of what's happening in the story. Same scenes but different plots, it's kind of trippy when you watch both of these movies and see where the weird cuts from one movie is because of scenes from the other.
Yeah I remember this movie. I saw the Fire Dragon version. It was wierd too. I remember they killed off one of the main character by having his ass get poked by a samurai sword. And the Amazons used the men as sex toys for happy hour.
@@ahbmal Imagine if someone decided to make a fan made definitive cut that combines both films together.
that's pretty interesting thanks.
Good looking!!!🙏👍🤔
Jackie Chan is barely in this but the real star was Brigitte Lin.
"Half-remembered fever dream" seems spot on.
There are so many half remembered fever dreams from my childhood I still cant find half of them. I think at least some of them arent real
I'm not entirely sure this isn't a secret masterpiece.
"One of the most bizarre film I've ever done on the show!"
This is gonna be good.
You left out Jacky's poignant final line to the Generals: "To me you look like clowns!"
Funnily one of the US Major Generals did try to start a Coup against the Chinese government during WW2 (yes the US was in China at the time aiding the then Nationalist government which later became Taiwan.)
China was the Ally that bleed the most in WW2 followed by the Soviet Union.
"It's like the expendables fucked a history museum" LOL That's it. The funniest riff has been made everybody.
It's as if the writer got their information about WWII from reading golden age comic books.
It's so weird hearing Jackie Chan dubbed in his older movies.
Also Bridgette Lin, who plays Lily, is an awesome and beautiful actress.
The favour Chan owed Wang Yu, is that when Chan was physically kidnapped by triads following his contract dispute with Lo Wei, Wang Yu went in to "discuss" with fellow triads, of a different branch, and after the discussion ended with Wang Yu beating 7 shades of hell out of everyone else, Chan was released... Also the reason Chan later appeared in Island on Fire
Good stuff thank you!!!🙏👌👻❣️
Man Wang Yu was just as unstoppable as his character here if he could defeat a bunch of triad members by himself.
Man I can’t believe I’ve been watching Brandon for almost 6 years, times goes by so quick, I remember this was the review when I decided to sub
That wierd feeling when next time you are going to watch Kung Fury and think: "meh".
Instead of the "Dirty Dozen" this is the "Dysfunctional Dozen."
More like "Derpy Dozen" XD
OMG THIS IS IT! I saw this movie late night on El Rey once. I thought I was about to watch The Howling because it LITERALLY had music from The Howling ripped into this one. Boy was I surprised.
"Who knew Grandma could eat so many balls?"
(brain melts)
I've loved this movie for years - even left work early in 2007 or so because a Cinema a few towns opted to do a one-time showing of this movie out of absolutely nowhere. Glad to see it's finally gained some traction as a cinematic super-oddity, and glad to see that you enjoyed this movie for what it was.
I absolutely adore this movie - It's literally so bad it's perfection. Like Story of Ricky, it's bad in such razor-sharp ways that, rather than a careless accident of incompetence, it might actually be a work of absolute genius in creating an anti-classic.
Is it "bad" or just goofy? Everything in the production seems at least decent, if not great. Kinda reminds me of "Big Trouble in Little China" a bit; competent production of a bat-shit story that's aware of what it is and leans into it.
@@michaelccozens Oh - Definitely Goofy, but this is only because I recognize that it had to have been made by some crazy genius rather than someone incompetent, and I suspect you've come to this realization as well. I've actually contemplated a long-form CZcams movie analysis of the genius of Fantasy Mission Force
13:02 He said fighting, not farting, and you stand and watch...
He's got a good point. She's not tyied up! Why couldn't see help?
I found this for $5 on VHS back in '99. I loved it. So random
I'm only 5 minutes in and seriously considering watching this movie.
Nice job Brendan.
If Monty Python did chop-socky skits.
"Who knew Grandma could eat so many balls?" 13:44 Now there's a sentence I've never heard before.
Well, Grandpa knew, presumably. Don't pull that thread, Brandon; you might not want to know the sordid basis of your ancestry.
9:57 "It's like The Expendables fucked a history museum"
Nice. Nearly laughed my ass off on that one xD This movie seems to be one giant WTF?, in the best possible sense of that expression, which resulted in one of your best reviews imo. Thanks!
Alternatively, The Expendables fucked Killer Instinct while on crack
"Who knew Grandma could eat so many balls?" I had my suspicions.
I love Brandon's reaction to the "Amazon?" Women jumping out of huts and attacking with long "scarves??"
He looks as confused as me! 😂😂😂
Looks like most of this movie's budget went on cocaine.
I think they jumped straight to meth and LSD.
The most dangerous of meth-ods.
Please review "Singham." If not for me, do it for the children. If not for them, do it for the fact that he pump slaps everybody and you hear Lions roar. Also, he sings his own theme Song and embodies all that is man! 🦁💪👏😵
Jovan Mitrić
Nope you’re wrong
They bought equal portions of all the booze and all the drugs in the world and mixed them together
@@sdm47 It was completely worth it.
I saw this film once as a kid back in the nineties and was totally perplexed. Then, thirty years later, my brother is watching it and, somehow, I could recite all the lines of dialogue and tell him what was going to happen next. Weird. Makes an impression I guess.
So Fantasy Mission Force is basically Chinese Suicide Squad. Ok I can dig it.
Lol basically
or Suicide squad is American adaptation of Mission Force.
Apparently.
Except if Deadshot and Katana were the only competent ones
Fun fact: In Russia the movie was called "Смертники" which can be translated to "Suiciders" or "Suicide-bombers".
The part with the colored-ribbon amazons had me thinking "Jesus is this what Hong Kong Batman 1966 is like? Because Adam West would significantly improve this movie."
Rezan Daigotsu honestly batman 66 with Jackie Chan style action would be awesome as hell
True, but is there any movie that doesn't apply to? Even the Normandy scene in "Saving Private Ryan" might have benefitted from Batman running-around attempting to dispose of a bomb in the background.
Speaking of universal movie improvements, is there any vampire flick that wouldn't be better if you subbed-in the Chinese jumping variety? I love those things.
As you say, in-ef'n-sane. Three stooged ending was perfect. What Jackie chan did when his blows didn't affect his enormous opponent reminded me of what maxwell smart, agent 85, would do in the same situation
I ♥ this movie so freaking much! Jackie Chan is always top-billed, despite only being in this movie for, like, ten seconds. Brigitte Lin absolutely steals the show. You could form a religion around that woman. (Interesting side-note: apparently she and her daughter live, like, half an hour away from me!)
Now this...THIS is ENTERTAINMENT! Honestly, it looks like an awesome mess.
Jackie Chan played a villain early in his career in the 1973 movie "Rumble in Hong Kong" aka "Police Woman".
Yep. And it's an awful movie.
@@postersandstuff770 Thugs are common roles for stuntmen.
@@postersandstuff770 Didn't Jackie Chan suffer a really bad injury from being in that film? Like he had his back broken or something.
He also played a villain in Killer Meteors
You didn't realize it but the guy with the hairy arm is the werewolf from American Werewolf in London and that was just the dinning room of the pup they stopped at :P lol.
Ah, Chinese Rogue One based on the ending there. *cries*
I searched for reviews because I was wondering if other people thought this was a weird movie.
This is the movie that Suicide Squad wishes it was
2:46 “that’s lieutenant John Wick.” No wonder he’s such a murder machine.
(\ Someone must have fucked with his dog
11:45 - You cannot kill 'he, who walks behind the rose".
15:45 It looks like they're playing Mahjong.
Is there an emoji that projects bewilderment and disbelief? Yeah. I need that emoji, because words will never be enough to describe what I just saw.
A few.
😮 😦 😯 😲
Emojis - for when words cannot describe what you just saw... Oh, I see that a poop emoji is already available. ;)
Chinese Rogue One pretty much.
Canada: Theres a lot of dirty wet beavers up here.
This review man!!! 😆 Where did you get such a cleaned up version to show!? I actually love this movie and I really want it to be restored in Chinese too. There is a Japanese blu ray with no old English dub as you’ve shown or English subtitles for that matter (As Far As I Know)!
Plus I think it has extra footage.
I didn't know there were so many 1970s cars in WW2
This movie looks to be awesome! I'd actually watch this if I got a chance.
One of the reasons so many Asian martial-arts movies have dance numbers (not all, of course, but more than you'd expect) could have to do with the fact that Jackie Chan and many of his associated action stars were originally trained as children in a school for traditional Chinese "opera", more or less. I wonder if this might not be more prevalent than we might assume amongst the industry at that time.
This movie has to be one of my favorites that you've reviewed. It has not only Jackie Chan, but omages to Mad Max: Beyond Thunder tide, Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman (with the Amazonians), and a whole bunch of non-stop action and other amazing qualities! Obviously it has to have flaws, since you reviewed it on your show. PS: for your next Godzilla movie review, can you do Godzilla vs. Gigan?
"Beyond Thunder tide"???
***** oops :P
This movie was released in Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1982, that's 3 years Before Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdorme.
Just some background on the undead that appear: the one that pops out of the coffin is a jiang shi (the closest Anglicization I could manage, and I apologize for messing it up) or hopping vampire. The reason they hop is because they're suffering from rigor mortis, so they can't move their limbs very well, which is where the odd gait comes from. As this movie demonstrates (in humorous fashion), they're not slowed down much by this impediment, and they can be quite intelligent, depending on who's telling the story. Who's telling the story can also make their purported powers vary quite a lot as well, though one of my personal favorites is how they can't see very well, but can immediately sense if someone around them breathes, allowing them to hunt that person down unless they hold their breath.
As for the ghosts in the toilet, well, Chinese and Japanese toilets *are* pretty darn scary, in many places consisting of a literal dark hole in the floor leading to who the heck knows where. Needless to say, children who have to go in the middle of the night have made up stories about all sorts of terrifying entities that lurk down there, most of them involving hands that reach up to grab you at the worst possible times.
I will say this....the film never looked better. whoever put out the print you used for this review did an amazing job. Can you let us know who?
I would like to know also.
same i cant find this widescreen version anywhere
I wonder if the Triad paid the editor, director and screenwriter in every drug ever.
It just goes to show you that even in insane fever dreams of films, Jackie Chan and Bridgette Lin make everything better.
I wonder if Tarantino will remake this: plenty of people want a Wild Bunch/Dirty Dozen Chinese comedy to save Allied generals from Amazons and Japanese Nazis
18:52 i think rouge one took the whole killing the main characters from this movie XD
And George RR Martin thought killing all the heroes here took waaaay too long
Yoshiyuki Tomino was making Downer Endings before Rogue One made it cool.
The chick blowing up her own house with a bazooka had that Blue's Brother's theme going on.
I gotta watch this and Get Mean back to back someday and leave humanity behind
Woah! Where did you get a legit Widescreen, cleaned-up version of this movie? Even the 'Digitally Remastered' version of this movie was 4x3 and very VHS quality.
@TheKungFuRobber Do you know if it will work on a US BluRay player? My wife got me digitally remastered DVDs for the Lucky Stars trilogy not realizing it was for Region 2, and I was only able to eventually watch them by using Handbrake.
Cannot stop watching the Adagio for Strings part.
This movie is what could have been a great Marvel movie of Captain America’s Howling Commandos.
Been laughing ever since I subscribed, thanks for the fun brother. keep it going...
Are you sure he didn’t say “Here’s me farting and you stand and watch”? That sounds more like it! And, I can see Jackie doing that and allowing an audience to view it!
Jimmy Wong ( 1 Armed Swordsman) vs Jackie Chan ( The Drunken fighter), that is something new :P
Haunted Mah Jong? I guess it beats anime Mah Jong games. Which are usually strip based. :/
I had the theme song from this film stuck in my head for two weeks once. Aahh, good times.
I know you will never see this but your commentary has brought me so much happiness. You are awesome. Thanks for making my life better
19:02
You know it means buissness when we see the fire place next to the couch
The tuxedo is underrated movie
"take it easy opening credits!" that was good.
This whole movie is like a dnd campaign.
This cast of characters certainly reminds me of the yo-yo's I have around my table.
Jimmy Wang Yu, the top billed actor in this film, was also the main star in One Armed Boxer, a Shaw brothers classic. That's another good one worth seeing that would be right up your alley with these types of films.
What I find weird is Jackie's place in the film. Wasn't he already a mega star by this point? You'd think he'd be top build and the main character
Maybe he was only doing as a favor to someone else.
😂😂😆😆 the ending of this movie broke Brandon's mind
Hell with the cocaine - they should have chosen heroin and called this movie CHASING THE RED DRAGON!!!... well, if Thomas Harris already didn't take the last part of the title, that is. Jackie Chan has done better movies but this has got to be the one that is OFF THE F#$@IN' CHAIN! Seriously, how long will it be before we get one like this in the future? Nice fireplace by the way!
3:35
“Hand Hair” would’ve been more appropriate 😆
I need this on DVD
林青霞??? the female lead was the queen of 70s Taiwanese romcom movies. My dad had a crush on her for the last 50 years
Love this movie! Glad to see it here. Thanks, sir.
“Here’s me fighting and you stand and watch.” 12:59
Good description of Jackie Chans Career
6:45 laughed till I choked!
Sounds like alot of fun, as long as your a good shot
inconsistency in tone is worse than any "bad" special effect
Wang Yu aka Jimmy Wang Yu who was the star of the One Arm Boxer series the most famous of which was One Arm Boxer vs Flying Guillotine aka Master of the Flying Guillotine
Dude, I've said it before and I'll say it again:
YOU CRACK ME UP!
Best to you-
Holy sh*t this movie seems to be better than 90% of the action blockbusters in the last 5 years
Holy shit, I fucking can't read asterisk.
I'm pretty sure the Leader of the Amazons is Jin from Dairanger. Wow. Didn't expect that.
And the masked Nazi goons look like Shocker rejects.
@@nicholaslienandjaja1815 so. I wasn't the only one who noticed...
Dude, that was bat-shit crazy! I am DEFINITELY going to have to find a copy of that and watch it!
The opening scene where the Japanese officer is surprised by all the Allied Generals he just captured reminds me of the opening scene of "The Secret War of Harry Frigg". Several Allied Generals are in a sauna in North Africa arguing over the best way to invade Italy when they are captured by some Italians. The scenes (aside from the names) are identical.
This is what happens when Mao' s youth revolution in China burns too many books. Decades later they don't know who fought in the second World War, when it was fought or where it was fought. In all seriousness though, a hilariously bad, but fun movie.
Much respect to Jackie Chan's work, BUT, I never did like his corny, slapstick, silly, 'Three stooges' type movies. I liked Jackie when he did serious martial arts flicks.
16:36 lol the "hideout" with gigantic flags.
Reminds me of a movie I saw where the secretive neo nazi gang had their HQ plastered with swastikas
No joke at first when I saw the title I thought you really were reviewing Ninja the Mission Force with Brad and Alison
"I don't know any Generals. To me you look like clowns!"
- Jackie Chan
Nice fireplace there! :) And yeah, this movie is insane... I saw some parts of it and still do not know what the hell it is about,
Scarecrow Tarzans is a good name for a band!
Rumor has it the only reason this movie was made, and a "fact" that broke the friendship between Jackie Chan and Don Wen for quite a while, was because Wen was deeply in debt to the Triads, and needed to put out something quick to try and get out of debt.
Makes me think if Mel Brooks directed a Montey Python movie
Supervised by Geoffrey Ho.
Great review there dude!
MY GOD!!!! you have a fireplac?
15:47 They're using one of the scores of Joe Dante's The Howling, did anyone noticed that?!?!
1:46 This guy sounds like Vector The Crocodile from the Sonic The Hedgehog Franchise.