"Ching Fai (Nick Cheung) is a former boxing champion who has struggled since his glory days, having gone to prison over involvement with the Triads due to financial problems and now working as a taxi driver. When Triad loan sharks torch his taxi and chase him down for money he owed, Fai decides to flee to Macau to avoid them.
In Macau, Fai accepts a job offer from an old friend to work as an assistant in a gym, while renting a room with a feisty young girl Peidan (Crystal Lee), who has been taking care of her psychologically unstable mother (Mei Ting) since her four-year-old son drowned and her husband left her for another woman. At the gym, Fai meets a young man, Lin Siqi (Eddie Peng) who wishes to learn Mixed Martial Arts in order to join an upcoming MMA tournament, the "Golden Rumble", which offers the winner millions of dollars - his motivation for doing so is to help out his father, a businessman who had recently lost a fortune due to a failed "flipping" deal, which has turned him into a depressed drunkard. Fai agrees."
A one in a kind sports film that will inspire you get off your a**. Nick Cheung is amazing in the film, "Ching Fai" is the best character I have seen him portray. For the first time I actually saw him smile since all of the other movies I've seen him in he's the bad guy that never smiles. In this film Ching Fai represents the old and Lin Si Qi represents the new. They bond together and inspire each other to be a better fighter and a better person. Even Crystal Lee and Mei Teng were amazing in this film. She may be young but Crystal Lee definitely has a future as an actress. I except big things from her when she grows up. I will suggest this film to those that like Sports movies that inspire you and have real depth.
3.9/5
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