The film is also not all machismo and testosterone, as Lam throws in scenes of the two men playfully kissing while in practicing "lock techniques" as well as Dani, Gwen and Fai painting the apartment and play-acting.Īlthough the film runs along the well-worn tracks of the underdogs getting their shot at fame in the MMA tournament (an example being Hollywood's Gavin O'Connor's "Warrior"), and ultimately, their redemption, Lam manages to make the drama and his protagonists interesting enough for us to want to take the ride. When he decides to take on the inept but determined Si-Qi as his protege and Dani and her mother Gwen (Mei Ting) as his surrogate family, we can't help but smile. As the narrative chugs on, we see that Fai is not a bad person at heart he is just person who has made bad choices in life. ![]() Secondly, Lam guides the film with generous dollops of endearing moments and offbeat humour amid the brutality of the MMA fighting sequences. Si-Qi, who has also come to Macau, barely scrapes by with construction work, learns of the world-famous MMA championship, the Golden Rumble, and enrolls in Tai-sui's school, where he eventually persuades Fai to be his personal coach. The trio's paths converge when Fai goes to Macau to work at a mixed martial arts school run by his old friend Tai-sui (Philip Keung) and sublets a room in Dani's rundown apartment. The film opens by showing how the three different people hit rock bottom - Wealthy 30-year-old Lin Si-Qi (Eddie Peng) is on a holiday when he reads that his tycoon father has gone bankrupt overnight, former boxing champion Chin Fai (Nick Cheung) is on the run from debtors and Dani (Crystal Lee) loses both her mother and brother in a domestic tragedy. However, aside from the fact that Cheung is in all of those films there are hardly any similarities between "Unbeatable" and Lam's previous works.įirstly, "Unbeatable" is a departure from Lam's police thrillers by focusing on the theme of mixed martial arts. ![]() The latter can be debatable amongst critics, but it is miles better than Lam's preceding film, "The Viral Factor". "Unbeatable" serves to assert that director Dante Lam gives his best work when he is paired up with Nick Cheung, after "The Beast Stalker" and "The Stool Pigeon". Watch this if you liked: Dante Lam's films, boxing films and wrestling films However, Qi`s fourth opponent in the tournament is Lee Yuan-Heng - a fighter best known for his ferocity in the ring. To inspire his father to stand up again, Qi enters an open MMA competition and starts training at Fai`s gym. ![]() However, the family business failed, sending his dad into alcohol-fueled depressing and forcing Qi to take up black market jobs in Macau for survival. ![]() Hot-blooded young man Qi was once the son of a rich man in mainland China. Even though their co-existence starts out as hostile, it slowly turns into a family-like bond - with Fai acting as the pair`s protector. With no money, Fai is arranged to share a house with recovering mental illness sufferer Gwen and her 10-year-old daughter Dan. Once a contender in the boxing world, he is now a broken man who works in a gym as a janitor and an assistant instructor in weight loss classes. After a stint in prison for participating in underground boxing, 48-year-old Fai is knee-deep in debt with no solution in sight.
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