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How Wheels on Meals featured some of Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung’s best action scenes

Wheels on Meals, starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao and filmed in Spain, was a mix of incredible fight scenes and a great plot

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(From left) Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan in a still from Wheels on Meals (1984). Photo:  Fortune Star Media
Richard James Havis

Sammo Hung Kam-bo’s Wheels on Meals (1984) operates on a simple premise: unite three of Hong Kong’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 “Three Dragons” have performed on screen.

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

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