Filmed under a title that defies the basic laws of English syntax because Golden Harvest executives were genuinely superstitious about their previous box-office flops starting with the letter ‘M’ (hence Wheels on Meals instead of Meals on Wheels), this movie is an absolute high-water mark of action cinema. By the mid-1980s, the old-school, costume-heavy studio…
Listen up: if you want to understand what action cinema looked like before safety nets, digital doubles, and lawyers, watch Police Story. In 1985, Jackie Chan turned a Hong Kong shopping mall into a demolition zone and treated his own body like a crash-test dummy. What follows isnโt just action choreography, itโs controlled chaos performed…