Malaysia - Lee.) It also imposes a daunting challenge for two leads Nick Cheung and Eddie Peng, especially for Cheung, at the age of 47 he works extremely hard to gain a brawny figure to play the washed-out former boxing champion. The director summons a multi Nation cast. Rewatch Value 10 Hong Kong director Dante Lam has a sturdy reputation in his action-packed thrillers in recent years (THE VIRAL FACTOR 2012, THE STOOL PIGEON 2010, BEAST STALKER 2008), this time around, he opts for another kind of action, the point-blank MMA fighting. ![]() However, Ching Fai, despite being 48, also harbours a secret desire to compete for the prize money which he so desperately needs. After Ching Fai by chance helps out Siqi one night when the latter's father turns violent, Ching Fai agrees to help Siqi with his MMA training, even though the championship is only 10 weeks away. Siqi also bumps into a former Mainland girlfriend, Keke, who tells him she now has a wealthy new boyfriend. With some experience in taekwondo, he enrols at the same gym where Ching Fai happens to work, in order to learn MMA. Finding work as a manual labourer, Siqi decides to enter the forthcoming Golden Rumble MMA Championship, which has a purse of HK$2 million. ![]() Meanwhile, Siqi has washed up, penniless, in Macau with his father, who has lost the will to live after being bankrupted by a stock-market collapse. Mingjun still suffers from depression, after a nervous breakdown when her husband left them for another women four years ago, and Ching Fai slowly becomes attached to her and the mouthy Pui-dan. He rents a room in the flat of Wang Mingjun, a Mainlander who has a 10-year-old daughter, Leung Pui-dan. In Hong Kong, meanwhile, Hong Kong taxi driver Ching Fai, aka "Scumbag Fai", a former boxer and ex-con with gambling debts, flees to neighbouring Macau and gets a menial job at the gym of old friend Tai-sui. ![]() After a biking holiday in Yunnan province, China, Lin Siqi, the son of a wealthy businessman, returns to Beijing and bumps into an old friend, Chen, who is enjoying some conspicuous spending after his father died and left him a fortune.
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