Millionaires' Express

The Millionaires Express is a big budget Sammo Hung Hong Kong production with a all star international cast. This is a martial arts comedy that if you seen a few movies from Sammo Hung that you will be familiar with the style. However, this is a western styled film taking place in China. The costumes and sets pay homage to The American West and the sets look amazing with awesome camerawork. The stunts and the fight choreography are master class with Sammo on top of his game as director, actor and fight choreography. His brother from The Chinese Opera Yuen Biao is also here as well as Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton, Eric Tsang, Rosamond Kwan as well as lots of other familiar faces if you are familiar with HK films of this period. Millionaire's Express is action excellence and blows away much of what passes as action today. This is a fine example of how action should be done.

The Millionaires' Express is a Western, a comedy, and a martial arts movie rolled into one, but it mostly just uses the first of those for its setting. I think it's largely a comedy with some brief action scenes/stunts thrown in for good measure throughout, and then it goes for broke with the martial arts stuff in the last 15 minutes. When it's focusing on martial arts, it's at its strongest, because the whole finale is really top-notch stuff. It did also make me wish there'd been at least one more big martial arts-heavy sequence, but at least the quality was good, even if the quantity left me hungry for more.

It may also have a few too many characters, being about various groups of people (mostly shady folks/robbers) who all end up in the same town, with the train alluded to in the title not playing quite as big a role as I expected. It made me sad at first, but then what the movie ended up being - and where it ended up having most of its action - still ended up being satisfying, so it wasn't all a loss.

Like a number of Hong Kong action comedies, I did feel like the comedic stuff was more hit-or-miss, but thankfully there were hits, and not too many misses. It was a fun time - not among the very best martial arts movies of this era, but also far from one of the worst (and there are others where the action's good, but the comedy does nothing but miss).

This movie was not only action packed but very funny. It has most of the famous Hong Kong action stars in it. If your familiar with this genre then you will recognize most of the stars like Samo Hung and more. The plot was kinda silly but the comedy and action sequences makes up for it and more. It is highly entertaining movie.

This film would sit comfortably next to A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, The Great Train Robbery, every other Jackie Chan/Sammo flick, and then some. It's not as funny as it could be (the dubbed version, that is), but aside from that I have no complaints.

There is no time to develop character traits (aside from a few cliches), but this is a slapstick so that shouldn't really be expected. If you are familiar with the slapstick-martial arts genre, or if you simply love bizarre, zany movies, then I recommend it. If you're looking for a substantial plot with lots of characterization, find something else to curl up on the couch to.

It is exactly what it proclaims to be, a madcap Kung Fu western. But I doubt if you'll ever see a man jump without safety mats from a 4-story building (on fire, I might add) in any other film. Wow.

It's a crazy movie, but awesome all the same. It's an incredibly visual story. The first time I saw it was a Cantonese version with no subtitles, but I still followed the whole story. The humour is also very visual and very funny! However, the stand out moment, ignoring the awesome battles running through the film, has to be Yuen Biao's flip from the top of a burning building. If you watch this film for no other reason, you have to see one of the greatest stunts ever committed to celluloid. Simple yet MAD! For fight fans there's the added bonus of seeing some of the all time greats of Far East Cinema battle it out on screen! SEE THIS MOVIE NOW!