lucifer

I can't praise the show highly enough. Stories on Ugandan prison footballers, very minor league baseball, e-sports, Aussie Rules, New Zealand distance runners living in Africa, and many more never cease to be both informative and entertaining. Even when it's a sport I have little interest in, I end up enthralled regardless. Really deserves to be more widely known.

Fantasy Mission Force is complete lunacy. By any sane reasoning, it's absolutely dreadful, but it's nevertheless ridiculously entertaining. Jackie only makes brief appearances, and Jimmy Wang Yu thankfully stays off screen for most of the film. The film never once makes any sense, and the "humour" is dreadful even by the standards of lowbrow 80s Hong Kong/Taiwan. It being subtitled rather than dubbed made no difference whatsoever.

It's definitely a film to laugh at, not with, and I really wouldn't have it any other way. Were it a slightly better film, it would just be another generic low-budget action film. Instead we have a film that rivals Ed Wood for sheer ineptness and resembles a Chinese take on the bizarre post-Apocalypse movies that came out of Italy after Mad Max hit big.