Mai nei dak gung dui (1982)

Director:

Yen-ping Chu

Release Date:

1982 (Taiwan)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Thriller | War

Plot:

Similar to "The Dirty Dozen" or one of that nature. Japan is trying to take over the world and the generals...

Plot Keywords:

Commando | Bulldozer | Shot In The Chest | Dynamite | Knife Throwing

Cast

Jackie Chan	...	Sammy (as Jacky Chan)
Brigitte Lin	...	Lily (as Chan Hsia Lin)
Yu Wang	...	Don Wen (as Yu Wang)
Yueh Sun	...	Old Sun
David Tao	...	Billy (as Tao Da Way)
Jung Fang	...	General
Shiu Bu Lia	...	Stone
Gou Ling Feng	...	Grease Lightning
Adam Cheng	...	Amazon Leader (as Adam Cheng Siu-Chow)
Ling Chang	...	Emily
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ti Men Chen	...	Lily's partner

Also Known As:

Dragon Attack
Fantasy Mission Force (Hong Kong: English title)
Mi ni te gong dui (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Mini Special Force (Malaysia: English title)

Runtime:

90 min | Germany:73 min

Country:

Taiwan | Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) (DVD) | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A | Norway:15 (video premiere) | UK:15

Trivia:

The Tuxedoed Guy's real name is "Yu Jin Xiang" (Tulip), and his entrance theme is also that of "Chor Lauheung" (1979) ("Chu Liu Xiang" in Mandarin), a martial arts soap that Adam Cheng was starring in at the time. Given he played a suave swordsman with an eye for women in the latter, he was associated with these Bond-like characters for a while. His role as "Tuxedo Man" is a riff on that.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Near the very end of the film, Old Sun starts to spin around before he is actually shot.

Quotes:

General: When the tree falls, the monkey runs.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Whaaaa??????????

Except for about 1,000 boring spots, this film is one of the most bemusingly funny "bad movie night" attractions I've ever seen. An absolute trainwreck of a production, Fantasy Mission Force (as its title translates, or so I'm told) is so profoundly and utterly stupid that it deserves a place of honor in the pantheon of cinematic ineptitude.

Still, it's funny!

There's a musical number in the first act which, although it fails to tie in with the subsequent story in any fashion, has got to be seen to be believed. Taking place at a what appears to be a huge honorary banquet for white male law students...oh, never mind.

If you love bad film as much as I do - "Plan 9 From Outer Space," "Glen Or Glenda," "Song Of Norway," "On Deadly Ground," "Boxing Helena," "An Alan Smithee Film," "Battlefield Earth" and the like - you will want to fashion a religion around this masterpiece of the inane.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, in this film makes even the slightest bit of sense. It makes "Godzilla Vs. Megalon" seem like an algebraic equation by comparison.