Review | Good Game movie review: Hong Kong esports comedy with Will Or is diverting but lightweight

Will Or stars with Andrew Lam and Yanny Chan as a member of a gaming team in this underdog story that leans on sentimentality over substance

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(From left) Lo Mang, Andrew Lam, Will Or and Yanny Chan in a still from Good Game (category IIA, Cantonese), directed by Dickson Leung Kwok-fai.

Published: 6:15pm, 17 Sep 2025

2.5/5 stars

The intense, jargon-filled world of professional esports might seem like a rather esoteric setting for a film. Yet in the new comedy-drama Good Game, this competitive backdrop is used for something unexpectedly heartwarming: a simple underdog story about chasing dreams and overcoming obstacles.

Hong Kong director Dickson Leung Kwok-fai’s follow-up to his goofy fantasy comedy Yum Investigation is defined less by its geeky premise than its undemanding nature and unabashedly life-affirming spirit – and is far more interested in the heart of its players than in winning at a video game.

Will Or Wai-lam (One More Chance), who shocked the industry in July with the announcement that he is fighting stage-four lung cancer, stars as Bond, an elite player who, owing to his difficult personality and advancing age – he is almost 30 – is being dropped by his sponsors for a younger rival, Vava (Jessica Chan Yee-chun).

While Sing (Ng Siu-hin), his former teammate and only friend, swiftly moves on to a conventional job, Bond struggles to give up on his own ambitions in the arena, which are often personified by random sightings of his in-game avatar, Solo (Anson Chan Ngai-san).

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