The Millionaire's Express

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Summary: Somewhat entertaining...
Review: I bought this tape thinking that I was going to see a lot of Yukari Oshima as a ninja, but she only had about 2 minutes of screen time. I thought the Japanese trio were cool and reminded me of the characters from the "Wrath of the Ninja" Anime. Down points were too many characters and a lousy plot. Some of the highlights were some of the comedy, Yukari Oshima's anime-ish ninja outfit, and the cameo character appearance of Wong Fei Hung as a kid.

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Summary: Great cast, dissaponting film
Review: Starts off real good, youre getting to think youll see allot of sumo, but theres only one really good fight (with yuen biao!)and the movie as a whole isnt very much. Whang jang lee (the worlds best& fastet kicker) is totally wasted. nice performence,as allways,by Norton. Rothrock-I hate,but shes doing fine,and offcourse theres yuen biao-my personal god.

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Summary: MILLIONAIRE'S EXPRESS - All-star martial arts action comedy
Review: This 1987 Hong Kong production is easily one of Sammo Hung's most enjoyable and spectacular directorial efforts. It's got the all-star, non-stop action, farcical comedy approach of the epic Hollywood comedy IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD. Sammo plays a man who brings his bevy of prostitutes to a remote railroad town and sets up a hotel. He arranges for a train accident to stop the Shanghai Express and force its passengers to stay in town and pay for the hospitality of his establishment. Meanwhile, a large bandit gang on horseback is headed for the town to rob the passengers. There are lots of little subplots leading up to a series of all-out martial arts brawls between the townsmen, passengers and bandits that spread through the entire town (constructed for the film in Thailand).

The cast is a who's who of Hong Kong movie stars, with Jackie Chan's buddies, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, heading the cast, followed by such other HK stars as Jimmy Wang Yu (as the father of Wong Fei Hung!); Shih Kien (the lead villain from ENTER THE DRAGON); HK mainstays Yuen Wah, Wu Ma, Richard Ng, Dick Wei, and comedy star Eric Tsang; Japanese stars Yasuaki Kurata and Yukari Oshima; American martial artist Cynthia Rothrock, in her first HK film (she gets to fight Sammo); and Australian martial artist Richard Norton. The latter two wear American civil war costumes! (Jackie Chan's refusal to join the cast caused a rift between him and Sammo.) This is Hong Kong cinema at its entertaining best. Unlike most U.S. action film directors, Sammo Hung is equally adept at comedy and action.

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Summary: What a movie!!
Review: This movie is riddled with poor voice acting, bad camera work, terrible special effects, and it all adds up to the funniest movie ever made!! The music is so cliched it's laughably bad and the voices, while poorly done, are full of character(one guy even sounds homosexual). The intentional humor in this movie doesn't stand a chance against the blatant showing of a low budget masterpeice.