Underdog Knight
Liu Ye, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, You Yong, Ellen Chan Nga-lun
Director: Ding Sheng
Imagine Forest Gump as a sword-wielding martial artist on a mission to destroy society's wickedness, place him among the colourful German architecture of Qingdao, and you have one of the most unusual heroes to appear on the Chinese screen.
Liu Ye, whose recent performances have been in marked contrast to the freshness he brought to earlier roles, finds in Underdog Knight an ideal opportunity to combine innocence and artifice. He plays a brain-damaged former PLA member, with a black-and-white view of good and evil.
Produced by Wong Jing but with a mainland director and crew, the film has a slightly schizophrenic feel as it careens between character drama and action picture.