I'm fairly forgiving about plot holes and budget problems; I have to be to watch Hong Kong movies, which are often shot with tiny budgets and incomplete scripts in ridiculously short amounts of time. Enough effort and creativity can make these problems easy to ignore, or overlook entirely. Roaring Wheels, unfortunately, has a million odd or annoying moments without much to redeem them. Pick a worst moment, any worst moment...

-Fred Wang's embarrassingly acted and dubbed crying for his dead girlfriend.

-Moses Chan's punch into the camera that's so powerful it knocks TWO people on their backs.

-Moses Chan's strangely-shot and totally unnecessary sex scene.

-The "destruction" of Fred and Maggie's seaside cafe; that is, the burning of the umbrellas over the tables. Even when the flames have almost gone out, it still sounds like a raging inferno.

Not to mention Aman Chang's mostly clumsy direction, the many scenes that seem to go nowhere, and a simple plot that STILL has holes in it. To top it all off, the character motivations are preposterous: "I can drive a motorcycle faster than you can."

Speaking of fast motorcycles, the racing scenes, as expected, are the highlight of the film; they are coordinated by Bruce Law, and are surprisingly well-photographed. They feel faster and more dangerous than those in "The Legend of Speed" and even the car-racing scenes in Jackie Chan's vastly more expensive but embarrassingly undercranked "Thunderbolt." Unfortunatley, as I said, there's little reason to care about the winner, or even the safety of the participants.

As should be obvious, I didn't get much out of "Roaring Wheels." It does, on the other hand, at least have more camp value than a lot of other bottom-rung movies; the scenes outlined above as well as numerous others make "Roaring Wheels" more amusing than many comedies.