How Wheels on Meals featured some of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hungโ€™s best action scenes



Sammo Hung Kam-boโ€™s Wheels on Meals (1984) operates on a simple premise: unite three of Hong Kongโ€™s greatest martial arts talents and let the magic happen.

The action comedy, starring Hung alongside Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao, works brilliantly within its own parameters. It is entertaining throughout, has few cringeworthy comedic moments, and benefits from a surprisingly well-structured storyline.

If that was not enough, the action scenes are superb, and the fights are rightly considered to be some of the very best that the โ€œThree Dragonsโ€ have performed on screen.

Hungโ€™s fight choreography has always been more hard-hitting than Chanโ€™s, and here his direction mixes goofing around with tough competition-style combat to outstanding effect.

As the Post reviewer in 1984 put it: โ€œThis jet-speed Cantonese comedy directed by funnyman martial arts expert Sammo Hung is the type of attraction that motivates people from Shau Kei Wan to San Po Kong to come out of their routine lives and jobs [and] then straight to the movie-houses.โ€

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