{"id":14983,"date":"2022-05-29T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14983"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T17:07:11","slug":"millionaires-express-1986-sammo-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14983","title":{"rendered":"Millionaires&#8217; Express (1986, Sammo Hung)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sammo plays a thief and killer and master bullshitter.  Terrific opening scene &#8211; he finds a field of dead soldiers and loots their bodies, but they were only playing dead for a military game, stand up and capture Sammo, take him back to base and humiliate him, then he blows them all up.<\/p>\n<p>The point is supposed to be a train robbery, but nobody can stand still long enough to wait for the train; buildings are burned down and a bank is robbed before it even arrives.  Too many characters and factions to keep track of.  <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14182\">James Tien<\/a> was in there somewhere, and Rosamund Kwan of the <em>Once Upon a Time in China<\/em> series, and Hwang Jang-Lee (the &#8220;dead&#8221; friend\/villain of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14809\">Game of Death II<\/a><\/em>).  Wong Fei-hung is in this, meets his rival Kien, both as little kids.  People can&#8217;t stop jumping out of two-story buildings.  Whenever the pace is less than frantic, he simply speeds up the film&#8230; this is cheating, but the result is absolutely thrilling, so I&#8217;ll allow it.<\/p>\n<p><em>No revisionist western is complete without one of these:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/millionex1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The protestors and prostitutes team up against the patriarchy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/millionex2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/millionex3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sammo plays a thief and killer and master bullshitter. Terrific opening scene &#8211; he finds a field of dead soldiers and loots their bodies, but they were only playing dead for a military game, stand up and capture Sammo, take him back to base and humiliate him, then he blows them all up. The point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,200,1766,2940,294],"class_list":["post-14983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-china","tag-kung-fu","tag-sammo-hung","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15010,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions\/15010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}