1984 · action · comedy · martial-arts
Wheels on Meals (1984)
Directed by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo1h 48m1984
Cousins Thomas and David, owners of a mobile restaurant, team up with their friend Moby, a bumbling private detective, to save the beautiful Sylvia, a pickpocket.
Our read: Wheels on Meals (1984) (1984) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded action · comedy · martial-arts entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- intense
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