Review | Stuntman movie review: Tung Wai leads passionate homage to Hong Kong action filmmaking
Veteran action choreographer Tung Wai plays washed-up action director Lee Sam, who returns for one last film collaboration

3.5/5 stars
One of Hong Kong cinema’s pre-eminent action choreographers flexes his acting chops in a rare leading role perfectly tailored to his skill set in Stuntman, a hugely passionate, if slightly corny, homage to the golden age of the city’s action filmmaking in the 1980s and 90s.
Here Tung, who turned 70 this year, proves himself a capable leading man all over again as Lee Sam, a once-venerable action director who left the film industry to run a bone-setting clinic after he indirectly caused a debilitating injury to a crew member several decades earlier.
Sam’s chance for redemption arrives when he is invited by a veteran director to collaborate on one last film. This is despite the fact the film’s lead, action star Wai (Philip Ng Wan-lung), has held a grudge against Sam since he worked in the latter’s stunt team at the start of his career.