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In this episode of In Search of the Crystal Skull, Arun and Patricia continue Keanu Reeves Month by looking back at the 2013 Chinese-American martial arts film Man of Tai Chi. A young Chinese man named Tiger Chen is going through his every day life struggles making ends meet at his delivery job, supporting his family, and getting tai chi training with his master for a tournament. The CEO of a private security firm named Donaka Mark sees Tiger Chen on TV and sees potential in him recruiting him as a fighter in his illegal underground fight club. Tiger Chen accepts not knowing that he\'s been filmed secretly for millions of people tuning into his life and that he would be killed if he refuses to finish his opponents or if he loses a fight. An officer from the Hong Kong Police Department named Sun-Jing Shi investigates Donaka Mark to learn if he\'s the one responsible for the fight club and all the mysterious deaths and disappearances of people who were a part of the club. But due to lack of evidence, her superintendent tells her to drop the case. But Sun-Jing made a promise to one of the former fighters before he disappeared to uncover and stop Donaka\'s illegal underground fight club.

When the movie premiered in theaters, it was a box office bomb making $5.5 million dollars out of a $25 million dollar budget. Critics had mixed to positive reviews calling it a "predictable, one note story", but praised the choreography and Keanu Reeves for both his acting and his first time directing a film. It\'s currently 71% on Rotten Tomatoes. What did Arun and Patricia think of the film? Listen and find out.