Uncle Odyssey  (PG13)

Starring Christopher Lee, Mark Lee, Hsu Hsiao-shun

Directed by Chang Ching-feng

Three middle-aged buddies in Taiwan decide to become livestream stars online to fulfil their dreams.

Despite family objections, they pledge to stick together forever, bungee-jump and although not born at the same time, die together. Choy.

Boy, you actually need to be in some kind of uncle-muddle to dig this unnatural, Jurassic-cringy, generally unfunny pic that's so artificially contrived you can see the constuction crane.

It even tells you the film it wants to be but isn’t. 2007’s The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, which it references here.

Heck, it's self-critical too. “Your movies are so out of date,” says the son of one fella, Yong-zhu (Christopher Lee), a bad-tempered, washed-up cinematographer who kaypoh-scolds people on film sets like a lunatic.

I mean, this flick is so old-fashioned and old-school saddled with a very dated sense of Taiwanese-style comedy-drama, you’re puzzled as to why it doesn’t even bother to move out of its men-of-a-certain-boring-age demographic.