Stone was the King of Fighters at TBS High, until he left the school for a year. Edward, a nerdy student, is accidentally transferred to TBS. Phoenix has a crush on Edward, but is afraid to admit. Stone returns with the vow never to fight. He decides to teach Edward to defend himself. However, Mantis, the current TBS King of Fighters, won't stand for it. He wants to fight Stone to see who te real King of Fighters is. Edward is kidnapped and only Mantis holds they key as to who kidnapped Edward. Pair up 2 good looking actors in a movie and girls will go crazy to watch them. The story is decent. The fighting scenes were pretty good to look at.<br/><br/>The ending seems to be directed by another guy. It ruins the movie. From the beginning, there was no slapstick of video game fighting moves. Suddenly we see "5 hit combos" and some really bizarre fighting moves executed like a video game in the ending of the movie. This is really unnecessary. The ending also did not tell us if the girl will continue to be with the rich nerd because he is going to further his studies and leave the current 'TBS' school.<br/><br/>Mao points: 5/10 MY SCHOOLMATE, THE BARBARIAN is a Hong Kong high school action comedy featuring starring roles for Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung. It's very much a movie of its era, part of the 'new wave' of youth cinema that pervaded Hong Kong in the late 1990s and early 200s when series like the GEN-X COPS films as well as YOUNG & DANGEROUS were all the rage. This one has a simplistic plot incorporating fighting champions, rivalry, bullying, heroism vs. geekiness, and the typical romantic sub-plot. Tse is shot in slow motion and looks cool, getting sprayed with water while his shirt tears a lot; Fung fails to convince as a supposed geek character. The frivolity of the whole thing is a bit off-putting, and some of the stylistics have dated, but the last fight scene is a scorcher and Samuel Pang is a good villain. It's very much along the lines of VOLCANO HIGH, albeit without the CGI.
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