It was such a good movie, it started running yesterday in my country. I'll give it a solid 4,5. I don't know much about the real life story so I'll just be based by what it's shown in the movie. The movie is about the 23th years old Marty Mauser, showing us that success it isn't always clean, because he does a lot of dirty moves just to get what he think he deserves. He's an narcissistic, egoistic, cocky and disrespectful man, that had a big dream of being the most respected and admired ping pong player of the times. I hated his character because of his attitude, and hell when he was making things worse and worse it made me so stressed that it immersed me even more making me ask "What's he going to do next?" I got frustrated just like the character when things weren't doing well even if I knew he deserved it. Not going to lie, I'm not very familiar with Timothy's acting or past works, but he left a great impression of his acting with this movie. Rachel, I got very anxious and also felt bad with her because everything she was passing through was sad, how her lover left her pregnant, ghosted her for 8 months, only got contacted because he needed someone, accused her to be lying about him being the father, got humiliated by her husband, and worse. How she got kidnapped by the wrong people due the dog that Marty lost after a really bad fight with some guys that made bets with him. The Japan tournament left me a bitter taste, yes I know he suffered A LOT but I felt... It wasn't enough for him? Or his victory, knowing that actually the tournament was just that Kay's husband could sell more pens felt like... It was really necessary his suffering for this? I liked the movie, I felt what the characters were portraying.