After a thoroughly shite weekend, I decided I was going to try and cheer myself up with a Jackie Chan film. I was a massive Jackie fan when I was in my early twenties. Not that I have anything against him now, obviously, but we just sort of grew apart. Such is life.

To be honest, I should probably have gone straight for Police Story or Armour Of God because Meals On Wheels proved to be far more of a drag than I expected it to be. Its problem is that it's about 20 minutes too long and, for some completely unknown reason, spends too much time actually trying to have a plot. Who on earth thought that was a…

I was recommended this film by a friend who loves martial arts films, on a count of me talking about Ip Man with him. He praised this as being a great action film. Well I was pretty disappointed in this as a martial arts movie since there was maybe 15 minutes of fight scenes throughout the entire film.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad movie, I was just expecting a lot more fighting, since I do know Jackie Chan is a well known expert in the genre. But I felt it was too much plot and not enough action. I did like some of the action with the awesome food truck/van that he and his cousin drive around.…

Thoroughly entertaining and funny. It's at its core a comedy film, only turning heavily into martial arts towards the film's finale, but Sammo Hung manages to make the comedy work and does not abruptly butcher the sequence of funny events like he did in The Prodigal Son. Jackie Chan doesn't have stunts that are mind boggling, but he has great fight scenes, and both him and Yuen Biao are on top form and make for an entertaining duo as cousins Thomas and David. Hung's performance is also entertaining as the not so bright P.I. Moby. The rest of the cast also do a good job, Lola Forner gets the most scree are ntime aside from the 3 main Chinese actors…

(Day 3 of 30 Days 30 Countries Challenge- China)

That's my first attempt at making an html link in my life. What an exciting day.

Wheel on Meals is nothing special, it is a pretty basic Jackie Chan movie. It is charming though, in it's own way. I got the non-dubbed version, but one of the first things I noticed is that most, if not all of the characters are dubbed anyway. It's extremely obvious that they acted out the scenes and then recorded their dialogue later in a sound-booth, in fact there are a lot of key actors to the story that I'm pretty sure didn't really speak Chinese at all. It's weird thing, watching what seems like should…

This film is a lot more "zany" that I was really expecting. A lot of the stunts are even more slapstick based than usual, even for Jackie Chan and co, and you get the feeling that the plot doesn't actually really matter all that much, the whole thing is just an excuse to wisecrack and talk in a funny voice and dive around on the floor. Sammo Hung is great; quite honestly I thought he was an annoying berk for the first couple of scenes he appeared in, but his character Moby quickly grew on me as a kind of amalgamation of both Laurel and Hardy in one person.

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Thoroughly entertaining and funny. It's at its core a comedy film, only turning heavily into martial arts towards the film's finale, but Sammo Hung manages to make the comedy work and does not abruptly butcher the sequence of funny events like he did in The Prodigal Son. Jackie Chan doesn't have stunts that are mind boggling, but he has great fight scenes, and both him and Yuen Biao are on top form and make for an entertaining duo as cousins Thomas and David. Hung's performance is also entertaining as the not so bright P.I. Moby. The rest of the cast also do a good job, Lola Forner gets the most scree are ntime aside from the 3 main Chinese actors…