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12 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
This movie is great!, 22 November 1998
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Eviljomr from Texas
One of the most hilarious HK films ever! Our heroes must rescue American commander Abraham Lincoln from the Japanese Nazis based in Europe during WWII, because Agent 007 was busy, The Bald Detective had defected to the enemy, Snake Plissken had been dead for three years, Rocky (yes, that Rocky) wouldn't be suitable for a military action, and Captain Black Fox (Brigette Lin in another movie that I haven't seen, Golden Queen Commando, I think) had retired to raise a family. And along the way our heroes have to battle amazons and hopping vampires! How can you beat that? This film tends not to be liked by the Jackie Chan purists (he actually doesn't star in the film) but it's one I love.
9 out of 10 people found the following review useful:
The greatest film of ALL TIME!, 29 April 2001
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GraeS from Petaluma, California
It isn't the greatest film of all time, of course, but it is certainly one
of the oddest. No matter how many times I see this film (and I've seen it
quite a bit) I never get tired of the relentless, manic energy this film
spews from the screen.
The plot is so inane that I'm tempted to ignore it. It may or may not take
place during the Second World War- in any case, the Japanese invade Canada,
and, in the process, capture Abraham Lincoln and a handful of other
dignitaries. This situation is of course intolerable to our Chinese allies,
who immediately hire a crack team of mercenaries to rescue the captives.
Wackiness ensues.
At various points we encounter a village full of leopard skin-clad amazons
led by some guy in a tuxedo, a haunted house full of hopping zombies, a
ridiculous song & dance number in a restaurant, and an army of Japanese Road
Warrior-style Nazis who surf on top of old American muscle cars. The movie
is hilarious, and, as far as I'm concerned, a must watch.
7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
What the #@*! was THAT?, 2 September 2004
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Peter (fineanimal) from San Diego, California
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.
7 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Best/Worst Movie I've Ever Seen!, 28 February 2001
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(Monk N M) from N. Idaho, USA
I bought this yesterday and have watched it three times already. The
editing
is truly laughable. The dialog is bad too, but it seems that the film
makers
knew it and were just having a lot of fun. It is supposed to be WWII, and
there are '70s muscle cars in it? Sick and wrong you say? Naah! They just
wanted to play! Somebody gave the producers a bunch of money and
explosives
and they just took off with it and had a great old time! First they played
at doing westerns, then did a Benny Hill skit, a bit of Sheena of the
jungle, cut abruptly into a goofy horror movie, then ended with Mad Max.
All
during WWII? Hahahaha! I laugh, haha. Don't you naysayers get the joke? I
mean really, Chinese guys playing Scotsmen with kilts? Asians in German
Nazi
SS uniforms? British general Robert Foster is Hispanic? They could have
gotten caucasians for those parts if they'd wanted to. They chose not to
on
purpose, and that's excellent. It's what I like most about this movie;
logical boundries aren't important. Time, place, and culture just get
alllll
messed up. If this movie had tried to be a serious action flick, then yes,
it would be a failure. I think that when they made this film they achieved
most everything that they had set out to do. It's successful, and not a
flop. It's just very great in a very bad way.
9 out of 13 people found the following review useful:
Oh. My. God., 7 October 2003
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Doctor_Cheese from The Ninth Circle of Bad Movie Hell
What the hell? This movie has everything! Hopping undead corpses. Crazed Amazons. Ghosts who cheat at cards. Japanese Nazis who attack riding atop 1970s clunker cars. Stupid musical numbers. Abraham Lincoln as a World War II general. Throw in loads of gratuitous violence, Chinese guys dressed in kilts and Elvis jumpsuits, and, er, Jacky Chan (and his chicken) and you have quite possibly the stupidest movie ever made. You won't know what to make of it either, but if you have the proper amount of beer on hand, and a few fellow appreciators of c**p, it won't matter in the slightest.
4 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
FUNNY AS HELL, 18 March 2001
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zegfoo from n/a
This movie is one of the funnist Jackie Chan films of all time. I thought I had bought the funnist one with Young Master, but I was wrong. When the opening musical seqence opens with an ugly oriental guy in a top hat singing like a woman, I fell out of my chair. Great continutity errors: Abe Lincon as a WW2 general, the ever changing roman armour on one of the commandos, Nazi cars from the 60's (one ever having the star of david on it), and the ever popular nazi japs. Even though Jackie Chan is in the movie for a total of 10-15 minutes, his role, (jump in the scene, beat the hell out of everyone, leave), is great.
9 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
So bad it's great, 9 January 2001
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Andres Salama from Buenos Aires, Argentina
Pauline Kael once said that movies are so rarely art, that if you can't enjoy great trash, there is not much point for one to go to the movies. Well, this demented film is trash of the greatest order, a movie so bad it's wonderful. It stars Hong Kong luminaries Jackie Chan (in a small role) and Brigitte Lin, and unlike Ed Wood movies, this film is deliberately bad, but that doesn't make it any less entertaining.
3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
So bad it's funny., 20 June 2002
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ReccaBecca from Chicago, IL
I watched this movie with two of my friends, and it is hands-down the funniest movie I've ever seen. It's so horrible. And it's so random. An island of cannibal women. Superheroes with KKK hoods who fly and throw streamers. A haunted house with jumping zombies. For God's sake, Japanese Nazis in Canada whose base is in a barn. And if you watch at the end, one of the junk cars the Nazis have has a Star of David on it. I very, very strongly recommend you watch this.
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Strangest movie ever, 12 August 2003
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marvelscrub from Canada
My God. I don't really know what to say.. I expected your usual
old-school
Chan flick. Not even Close. It's a movie about a bunch of goofy
characters
on a mission to save some people.. I think. Either way, it is TOTAL
fantasy
with that strange slapsticky Asian comedy that us westerners just don't
quite get. Totally off the hook, and here's the clincher. Jackie isn't
even a main character! Just an old movie he did as a favor for Jimmy
Wang
Yu (I think) repackaged under Jackie's name for obvious reasons (moolah).
Definitely one of the strangest movies I have ever seen.
2 out of 2 people found the following review useful:
Whaaaa??????????, 2 May 2001
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redmund (redmund@earthlink.net) from Los Angeles, CA
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.
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