Sammo has made some of the true all-time classic fu flicks, but this reviewer has to break with the mutual admiration society and state plainly that “Wheels On Meals” is not among the classics. Before all the rabid Jackie fans go nuts, this is not to say that “Wheels” is a bad movie. In fact it’s quite watchable and even enjoyable. The story is not bad, the goofball comedy is played to the hilt (as it is meant to be, over the top to the extreme – hell I almost peed my pants seeing Sammo for the first time in his 80’s weave complete with geri curl), and the acting is decent. BUT, as a fu flick (the other half of the formula) it simply fails to deliver for a vast majority of the film. For instance, there are only two brief fight scenes within the first hour of the movie and then we have to wait almost until the last 15 minutes for anything substantial to happen again.

Now, many reviews talk about the "great", "one of the best of all time", "best in all of Jackie’s films"...fight scene between Jackie and Benny ‘The Jet’, and it is good – but again in the opinion of this reviewer over-hyped. First of all, the fights look sped up at several points, and it is pretty clear from their motions that if Benny ever met Jackie in a back alley to have it out, he’d in reality kick Jackie’s ass. Benny ‘the Jet’ was not an undefeated kick-boxing champion by accident; but he’s no actor either – something the ‘three Peking brothers’ are. Yuen Biao’s fight with his baddie in the final fight sequences certainly shows off his quickness and acrobatic prowess but is too short to be terribly impressive. Sammo’s fencing fight in the same section is good but again restrained and short – certainly of the sequences Jackie’s is longest and best. Yet, even as good as this latter fight is, it’s not enough to make this a fu classic.

As an HK comedy from Sammo Hung, this is a solid 4 star movie; as a fu flick this is a 4 star movie for the 8-10 minutes of fight screen time, but only about a 1.5 star movie sustained in its entirety. In the end this reviewer is compelled to give “Wheels” not more than 3 total stars and this is generously erring to the comedy.

Alexander Fu Sheng and Chi Kuan Chun star in this 1975 Shaw Bros. production, one in a series of Shaolin movies staring the two and directed by Chang Cheh. "Invincible One" is a nominal sequel to "Shaolin Martial Arts" (also starring Fu Sheng and the legendary Gordon Liu).

The fu is sparse in this movie but the story is quite deep for a 70’s fu flick, and the acting (nearly all actors/martial artists with appreciable on-screen time, including Chang Tao and Fung Hak On who play their type-cast baddies, but with brains this outing – think some of On’s roles when he started working for Golden Harvest, e.g., "Warriors Two") is outstanding. Fu Sheng shows real acting chops here as the country bumpkin who learns about himself and his kung fu as he "grows" in the big city (okay, relatively small Shaw Bros back-lot village), while under the tutelage of big brother (Chun).

If you want to see a pure wall-to-wall fu flick with little to no story holding the fight scenes together (I too love such films), go try any of the many Venoms movies, don’t look to "Invincible One" to fulfill this need. But if you want a well-acted tale of the Shaolin-Manchu struggles with a few decent training/fight scenes, "Invincible One" is one of the best of its era.

Solid 4/5 star for story, 4.5/5 for acting, 2.5/5 for fu - overall 3.5/5.

The fights in this movie are decent in quality but too few in quantity – the one on the movie set with the ‘actor’ impersonating Bruce Lee is pretty good, especially since Sammo is a MUCH better Bruce impersonator than the other dude, who looks more like Bruce. Let’s face it, Sammo could never be mistaken for Bruce! The end fight in the warehouse is also pretty good (see below). There’s also a decent one where Sammo dispatches – Bruce-style of course – multiple punks in his uncle’s restaurant who won’t pay their bill. Otherwise the movie is mostly silly comedy and poor dialog.

The fight in warehouse with Leung Kar Yan and the two other dudes is pretty decent and is a cool homage to "Enter The Dragon" (ETD) – and the only real nod to that movie aside from the title and an opening sequence where Sammo is being transported by boat in the marina. The white dude in the warehouse fight is clearly supposed to represent the Peter Archer character “Parsons” from ETD (the limey bully who challenges Bruce on the junk while on the way to Han’s island and is tricked into meeting Bruce on “that island over there”), while the Chinese dude in black face, crazy afro wig and sideburns is a Jim Kelly nod. Of course Bruce didn’t fight Kelly in ETD, but had he he’d have probably kicked his arse like Sammo does the Kelly stand-in in "Enter The Fat Dragon". While not nearly so obvious, Leung Kar Yan might be a nod to Shek Kin’s “Han” character from ETD. It’s too bad Leung’s fight sequences in this movie were so limited as he’s one of the most under-rated and un-heralded of the HK stars of the 70/80’s.

In the end, "Enter The Fat Dragon" is a 2 star flick, with limited 3-4 star fights that Sammo and Bruce fans will appreciate but others might skip without missing too much.

4.5 stars - deducting 0.5 stars for low-rent nature of script and acting (feels wrong to give it a 5 outright).