Pedicab Driver (Qun long xi feng)

Sammo revolts against the means of production one fist at a time. There's a scene here in which Sammo shares a moment in his room with his lady love and it is all the more touching because he is covered in bruises. that makes sense in a movie that contains a little of…

Filipe Furtado

The purest of cinema, when kinetic energy is allied to the most primal, spontaneous entertainment, among the best choreographies ever put to film, absurdly sensitive dramatic care, funny, incredibly light until it ceases to be. I have never seen anything quite like it, the…

Diogo Serafim

Wheels on Meals is probably his best film overall, but this is Sammo's best mix of drama and action, his finest exploration of the improvised communities formed under migration-imposed poverty and the toxic ideologies that form and yet can be melted away under urban…

Sean Gilman

Pedicab Driver isn't quite Millionaires Express* level stacked, but plenty of big names from the Hong Kong film industry still participate here. When Sammo Hung asks you to be a part of one of his movies, you would be a fool to turn him down. This movie is rather mature…

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

Figured it was about time I ponied up for the Warner Brothers Archive release of my favorite Sammo Hung film; like most of these archive releases from the major studios, it's a barebones edition of the movie burned right to a DVD-R, but I was pleasantly surprised by the…

HKFanatic

Props to Warner Archive for giving this interesting, tone-shifting Sammo Hung flick a domestic release. Equal parts endearing and bleak, what starts out as a romantic comedy veers into much murkier waters before Hung gets to cracking skulls in the finale. The film is set…

Mandrakegray

Rewatched on the Criterion Channel.  I recall watching Pedicab Driver in the 1990s and liking it. I’d say it holds up pretty well. It isn’t Sammo Hung’s best but it has its moments. There are a couple furious fighting set pieces and a massive battle to conclude the story.…

Chris Hughes

These action scenes are fantastic! There are not enough of them.

Justin Decloux

another movie i've waited for years to see on film. every bruise on sammo's body is an axiom of a cinema.

nrh