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A Fist Within Four Walls hong kong drama review
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A Fist Within Four Walls
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by firefoxuser_1
Sep 27, 2024
28 of 28 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
This review may contain spoilers

Highly Recommended TVB Drama

This is one of the best TVB dramas out there. Although made and released in 2016, the camera quality is not that good, however the acting and fight scenes make up for it, so it's not much of a bother if you don't mind the old camera style. This is not the first time Ruco Chan and Nancy Wu had collabed in a drama as they were both in Forensic Heroes 3, but this is the first time they were leading a drama together, and it works so well because their chemistry in this drama is one of the best on screen relationships. Benjamin Yuen and Grace Wong's characters also have good chemistry, although the chemistry between Moon Lau and Philip Ng's character felt awkward at times, but it shouldn't ruin the experience as they do have funny moments. This drama has a mix of emotional, action-packed intense moments, as well as some funny ones as Jazz Boon always love to add in his dramas.

However, the story does fall flat at times with some deaths being unnecessary. Spoiler alert, Grace Wong and Philip Ng dies in this drama, but it wasn't even for the story to progress as it was mostly done so for either shock value or showing that the main bad guy, who is Jimmy Au's character which was revealed as a plot twist that killed Benjamin Yuen's father, who Ruco Chan's father was accused of killing which resulted in him and his wife's death, is extremely powerful and can kill everyone easily, except for the main characters because of plot armor.

The OSTs are great as well, Ruco Chan's Siege has a very powerful feel to the song with electric guitars playing which gets you pumped up for each episode playing. The interlude love song, sung by Ruco Chan and Nancy Wu, is one of the best songs ever in TVB history and never gets repetitive even if it plays a lot in the drama. Background music felt dated but sets the mood well as this is a period martial arts drama.

This is a really good TVB drama for its time, and I highly recommend for you to check it out. Rewatch value is also really good, but only for the action scenes as it wouldn't be as interesting since you would already know the plot twists. So if you're rewatching it solely for the story, don't.
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