Synopsis
The Bodyguard (我的特工爷爷, 2016) is a Hong Kong action drama you can watch online on iFILM. Sammo Hung — a Golden Harvest-era legend and Jackie Chan's longtime sparring partner — directs and stars as a retired agent dealing with early-stage dementia in a border town where China, Russia and North Korea nearly converge.
When a young flower seller enters his life, her father's gambling debts bring the wrong kind of attention. She's taken. His muscle memory hasn't faded as much as his mind has. Andy Lau co-stars in a film that treats the action as the emotional payoff rather than the headline — every fight scene earns its place because the film has already made you care about a man who should be done fighting.
Hung knows what he's making. This is a vehicle for the kind of tenderness Hong Kong action cinema does well when it bothers to try. Stream The Bodyguard (2016) online on iFILM.
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