The Millionaires' Express (1986)
Reviewed by: dandan on 2006-04-30
Summary: wow...
sammo hung writes directs and stars in a multi-genre gem; part western, comedy, action, adventure, comedy, with an all-star cast. the story involves a train full of the rich and affluent being forced to stop in a small town by sammo, who is trying to raise the town's fortune to atone for him almost ruining it years ago. there's a special agent pursueing sammo, the town's security officers who've just robbed their own bank (led by eric tsang), a group of japanese officials taking a scroll back to japan, a team of chinese agents who are trying to steal the scroll, bandits who want to rob the train and the fire brigade (led by yuen biao) who are trying to keep order...

yuen wah, rosamund kwan, billy lau, richard ng, cynthia rothrock, lydia sum, lau kar-wing, corey yuen, richard norton, dick wei, jimmy wang yu and a host of others pop up in various roles.

a real fun film. there's some great set pieces and, even though you may think the film may have too wide a scope, everything comes together nicely in the end.

great stuff...