08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
A Gilded Game movie review: Oho Ou, Andy Lau navigate the dangerous world of IPO listings
2.5/5 stars
Advertisement
The dehumanising tendency of corporate finance and the merciless nature of stock market speculation serve as the basis for much of the drama in A Gilded Game, a mildly diverting film presumably made for viewers who won't mind its predictably moralistic lecturing tone.
In A Gilded Game, Lau takes a back seat to finance graduate Gao Han (Oho Ou Hao). A small-town boy with 'no connections', he gets an internship at a top investment bank because he is a friend of Chu Feng (Jasper Liu Yi-hao), the son of the owner of a new-energy giant with which the bank is seeking to strike a deal for an initial public offering.
Initially looked down on by the bank's unscrupulous acting chief, Helen (Huang Yi), and her closest accomplice, Mike (Kent Cheng Juk-si), Gao nonetheless wins over the pair's in-house enemy Todd Zhang (a grey-haired Lau), a self-proclaimed 'world-class equity analyst' who is known for his unbending principles.
Advertisement
