Review of Wheels on Meals (1984) by Melissa A — 16 Dec 2011

Solid movie, it maintains a light and fun tone throughout so that makes it better than it probably would've been if it took itself seriously. The pacing really kind of sucked however and kept the movie from being better.

I suppose they wanted to save the big stuff for the end, which is good since the last long fight scene was excellent, but the movie still had an erratic pace. There's also some bloopers, but this is not really all that surprising.

What surprised me is how BIG of a blooper it was. There was this scene where Jackie and Biao were dressed up as dudes driving an ambulance and they were dressed accordingly. They had wigs and shit. The thing is, before they revealed who it was driving the ambulance, in one scene where they're trying to subdue Moby, you could see a dude with blond hair (Jackie was wearing a blond wig) and you could see he was clearly an American.

I didn't really mind it that much quite frankly, it added (slightly) to the charm. And the fact that everybody in Spain understood and spoke Chinese. That's about it, the highlight of this movie is really the fight scenes and they're really good.

Especially Jackie's last scene with Benny Urquidez, it was tremendous. This is one of his less dangerous movies but you could also see how he ended up being as broken down as he is currently. One thing you can't say about Jackie is that he didn't give it his all during his earlier movies.

Anyway that's it...a solid movie overall but not a movie I'd watch ever again.