We Are Legends (2019) User Reviews

Action choreography is decent

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 31 January 2020]

Not that you won't have seen better, but you know if you don't set the bar too high ... also you shouldn't expect anything much from the story. Characters are not more than they need to be and there are no real surprises awaiting you. Still anyone here for the action, will probably be more or less satisfied. That said, you could use your time with other (more worthy movies).

Offensive to a viewer's intelligence

[balthazargoldberg · 2/10 · 23 March 2020]

What happens when you take all the worst cliches, stereotypes, trivialities belonging to the American MMA-scene, and you combine them with a painfully poor script-writing, a bunch of flat, predictable characters, and a storyline with no moral or content? You obtain a movie such as this one. Probably one of the worst fight-movies I have watched in years. Hong-Kong cinema might have its downfalls from time to time - but We are Legends has set the bar too low. Don't waste your precious evening on something like this.

💪 MMA + True story

[shibal-00902 · 7/10 · 7 May 2020]

Beware of Underdogs Journey of 2 brothers from orphanage and got hooked thru this MMA sports from a care taker aka dad. Orphanage goes thru tougher then normal lives Story line is alright and the fighting scenes were not bad. Wait for end credits for round 2 - fight 💪

More HK cinema garbage

[shermano1ai · 1/10 · 20 February 2021]

Basically, someone in HK wanted to make a movie using MMA as context. Unfortunately, they had no subject matter experts and could only rely on what they see on the internet. I can live with actors who aren't actual martial artists, they would only need to be good actors. However, the acting is just as tragic. Jack and his "girlfriend" have the chemistry of a brother and sister. It's like the guy that plays Jack saw a couple of Connor McGregor videos and based his character on just that. The "MMA" choreography is terrible, i.e. the do moves that NOBODY does! I haven't seen such a production of posers in a while and this takes the cake. One of the things that make me laugh is that this is all for an Amateur level event. At times, the movie can't figure itself out tonally - sometimes it's gritty and edgy, then other times it's a light hearted anime. At first, I found that the movie does a little better at appealing to Western audiences and can have good English dubbing if the tried, but then I realized you can't watch much better films. If you want to watch good Asian MMA, watch Flashpoint with Donnie Yen. If you want to watch a proper movie about MMA, watch Warrior work Tom Hardy.

Some wonky choreography, but charming.

[orangekuzuri · 8/10 · 17 July 2019]

My initial impression:

People in the gym train wrecklessly (although it suits the main characters' brash and lovably dumb/silly/crazy personalities (respectively) and plays to the idea their gym has an oldschool approach to training). Some of the MMA choreography looks more wonky than the street fight choreography at one or two points.

My conclusion: Despite all this, the film has genuine charm. All character arcs get addressed. The focus of the film shifts to a different, more likeable, main character halfway through, which is both creative and fairly well executed. You get (*I got*) invested enough in the story that by the end that the questionable bits of choreography at the end were easy to gloss over. Really underrated film. If you like MMA you'll probably get some extra unintended chuckles early in the film too as a bonus, before the plot gets serious enough to outweigh the choreography choices. Really this film probably deserves a 7, but I gave it an eight because it impressed me beyond it's bad reviews and surprised me how much it could draw me into the plot despite the choreography (and despite me being an amateur mma fighter and analyst).