3.5/5 stars
A year after he earned much acclaim for the character-driven crime drama Rob N Roll, which won best screenplay honours in the Hong Kong Film Critics Society awards earlier this month, director Albert Mak Kai-kwong is back for another crack at the Lunar New Year box office with this unusually warm-hearted boxing drama.
While the tragicomic tale of midlife crisis in Rob N Roll represented a welcome change of pace from the plain silly offerings typical of this time of the year, Hit N Fun tells a bittersweet and at times almost philosophical story that again feels like it is striving to separate itself from all those Lunar New Year comedies.
When high-flying advertising executive Elsa (Louise Wong Dan-nei) first meets washed-up actress Carrie (Gigi Leung Wing-kei) at an audition for a menopause product commercial, the two don’t exactly start off on the right foot.
But their paths converge when Elsa accidentally discovers that her painter boyfriend, Daniel (Peter Chan Charm-man), has been dating Surewin (Chrissie Chau Sau-na), a Muay Thai champion in Macau and one of the disciples of Carrie’s husband, the martial arts master Bruce (Louis Koo Tin-lok).
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