Champion

A heart-warming very well acted and directed movie. The music supports and lifts the emotional flows and action of this film just right, the many comical moments are fortunately not over-acted but very well dosed, the dramatic moments are sincerely touching and although Mark has an introvert "come what may" life-style opposed to Jin-Ki's extravert hustling kind of life-style, the fact that both men's lives are not in balance binds them and secures their friendship.

The only nano bit that might have had more attention is when Soo-Jin learns via a telephone call that her very young children left the house and cruised the big city on their own to go to the arm wrestling match to return Mark's medal. Besides her lukewarm reaction to this, the medal was never discussed with her but she doesn't ask about it.

Ma Dong-seok, Kwon Yul, Yeri Han, director and writer Young-wan Kim and all the other cast and crew members did a great job in making this film for us as this film contributes to happiness in your life.

It's no over the top. It needs a better campier soundtrack to do that.

Hard to really do an interesting sports movie in arm wrestling. I'm not putting down the sport just pointing out how hard from a cinematic point it is to do.

That's what it took more than 30' years after Stallone's try to attempted it again.

A hart warming story that's about Arm wrestling actually reminds me more of Jean Claude Van Damme's lionhart (which is about street fighting)

Mark is a Korean born American who goes back to his home country to try to regain his success as a Arm Wrestler. Along the way he retraces the family he lost.

Overall, a hart warming story you should watch as that, cause it's not the best sports movie. I don't feel the inspiration when they do the arm wrestling montage, it just was not working but the story on family is good.

I love the story it's simple maa dong acting was just aswome champion movie has become one of my fav movie....

Always been a fan of Don Lee so gave this movie a try. Quite an enjoyable movie, though it brings nothing new to the genre. Loads of comedic moments with touches of emotional ones. Sadly no cameos from any arm wrestlers I know.

The film about arm wrestling that OVER THE TOP wished it had been (despite one of the characters being inspired by that film in the actual film). Don Lee plays a conflicted former professional arm wrestler who returns home to Korea for the first time in a lifetime since losing his standing in the professional arm wrestling world. His best friend, whom he would do anything for and is like a brother to him, convinces him that he has a chance to get back to the life he lost. Unfortunately, this forces him to get involved with gangsters and discover a family he never knew he had and the underworld they are trapped in. The film is really about a guy who's been physically and emotionally lost with only arm wrestling as his anchor until he discovers that there is more to his life than just being a champion. I absolutely loved this film and thought it gave Lee a great opportunity to show off a more emotional and nuanced performance than some of his other films. It is also, hands down, the best film about arm wrestling ever made.