A recent but less well-known Donnie Yen movie in which the martial artist plays a former soldier turned schoolteacher. He takes on an unruly class and in time helps the unlikeliest pupils with all of their personal problems, and there are a lot of them. After a while you realise this is less an action or comedy than a polemic on the state of the Hong Kong education system, so not particularly relevant globally. Saying that, I did enjoy the discussions even though the film lapses into sentimentality at times. Yen excels in a couple of good fight scenes randomly shoehorned into the storyline, and it's rather an effortless watch.
Review of Big Brother
