{"id":13323,"date":"2025-11-21T09:27:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13323"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:27:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T01:27:32","slug":"review-golden-boy-movie-review-louis-cheung-anchors-hot-blooded-yet-generic-boxing-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13323","title":{"rendered":"Review | Golden Boy movie review: Louis Cheung anchors hot-blooded yet generic boxing drama"},"content":{"rendered":"


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3\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has been a bizarre few years for Hong Kong cinema, with the Covid-19 pandemic warping its film release schedule and causing long-announced projects to re-emerge like tectonic artefacts from an alternate timeline. Golden Boy<\/em> is the latest case in point.<\/p>\n

The film, a mildly entertaining boxing drama anchored by an eye-catching central performance, was first earmarked to kick-start the then-stuttering career of Louis Cheung Kai-chung<\/span> years earlier. As it happens, the singer-actor proves more impressive for his physical transformation than his acting prowess here.<\/div>\n
As in most respectable boxing films that the city has recently produced \u2013 think One Second Champion<\/em><\/span> (2021) and Unbeatable<\/em><\/span> (2013) \u2013 Golden Boy<\/em> features a past-his-prime boxer who finds redemption in the ring against much younger opponents, partly for the child that somehow ends up in his care.<\/div>\n

Cheung plays Cheung Lek, a professional boxer released after a decade in prison for manslaughter. The film chronicles his efforts to rebuild his life after discovering that he has a 10-year-old son he has never met, and an inheritance to be claimed from his late girlfriend if he agrees to care for the boy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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