“Fantasy Mission Force” is a ludicrous action movie spoof with silly antics from beginning to end. It’s like if you mixed together the Peter Sellers version of “Casino Royale” with “Drunken Master”. I found it very funny but I can imagine a lot of people hating it.

A team of misfits is assembled to try and rescue a group of senior military figures that have been captured by the Japanese. Along the way, the whacky team get into one crazy situation after another including an encounter with a group of masked martial arts fighters and a brief visit to a haunted house.

The characters in “Fantasy Mission Force” are as ridiculous as they could be. The Japanese soldiers for some reason wear uniforms with swastikas on and even their vehicles have swastikas on them. Also, one of the heroes has a helmet like a WWI German soldier. It’s like the filmmakers just used whatever costumes they could find. Jackie Chan (“Who Am I?”, “Supercop”) appears but he is not exactly the star here. I wish Chan had a bigger role but when he is onscreen, he is very entertaining. Almost all the characters engage in some form of slapstick comedy and a lot of it made me chuckle.

I can understand why few people have seen “Fantasy Mission Force” because it is an odd Hong Kong picture. Even many Jackie Chan fans probably have not seen this one because he does not have a major part. However, I found a lot of this movie to be very funny. I especially liked an early scene where the military are deciding who to send on this dangerous mission and we see the candidates including James Bond, Snake Plissken (from “Escape From New York”) and Rocky Balboa. “Fantasy Mission Force” is a weird movie with no real plot but it did put a smile on my face.