It's not that I haven't seen any films in the last few days, but rather that I've been too busy with other things to post any reviews, but I shall make time for this one. Not that long ago I wrote about Hong Kong "brothers" Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao who were contemporaries at the Peking Opera School and who have appeared together in various combinations over the years, particularly in the '80s. This is another offering which I can highly recommend to fans of one or more of these action stars. Filmed for some reason in Barcelona and rather bogged down in exposition, the movie has cousins Jackie and Yuen running a fast-food wagon. Sammo is a fledgling private detective called Moby (no doubt a reference to his girth) who keeps trying to find someone called "Fatso" by encountering fatter and fatter acquaintances. He needs to find a missing heiress who turns out to be a pretty thief whom the cousins have befriended. Sammo also directed the film and once it gets going, it really spotlights his fight choreography skills and the amazing abilities of the three leads. This is rather more entertaining than the framing story. In particular Jackie is paired again versus Benny "The Jet" Urquidez to produce one of the best fights of his career. As I've said before, the boys are not afraid of taking a beating and are never portrayed as invincible like some Hollywood stars I could name. The fact that they win in the end is, after all, the point of the procedings.
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