Endgame is a 2021 Chinese-Hong Kong action black comedy film co-written and directed by Rao Xiaozhi, produced by and starring Andy Lau.

On the other hand, a down-to-luck extra actor Chen Xiaomeng, who is broke and massively indebt gets almost hangs himself but halts when his phone rings.

When Xiaomeng was showering, his soap bar slips out of his hand which Quan steps on and falls unconscious on the back of his head.

On the other hand, author and media company CEO Li Xiang, who is a single mother, arrives to the hospital as her 12-year-old son, You, collapsed on physical education class.

While leaving the hospital, Xiang drives on a pudding which splashes on Quan so she offers him a ride to Xiaomeng's apartment address, which he thinks is his home.

When Quan talks about how failed he is in life, Xiaomeng feels ashamed and tries to encourage him but leaves when he awkwardly lashes out at a loud neighbor.

When Xiaomeng leaves, he finds a bloodied raincoat and knife in the trunk of Quan's car and becomes terrified and flees for his life but calms down when he realizes he survived suicide once.

Xiang meets up with Quan for dinner and secretly records their conversation as she is working on a new project on an amnesiac man.

Xiang then asks Quan to help her steal an astronaut costume from the film set of The Wandering Earth to pose as You's astronaut father when he performs his speech at school and Quan agrees to help her and her son's speech wins the appauld from the entire school.

Xiaomeng then calls Wang to meet at an abandoned theatre stage and acts pysco and presents her with Jiurong's body and scares her into releasing Quan from the bag.

Wang inspects the dead body and realizes the lack of smell of blood and it turns out Xiang disguising as Jiurong.

Some time later, Xiaomeng shows up at her ex-girlfriend's wedding begging her to give him back the cash he gave her earlier.

[5] On 21 November 2019, there were reports that star Andy Lau got into a dispute with co-star Xiao Yang, when the former had become frustrated waiting for the latter to have his makeup reapplied multiple times.

Production company Emperor Entertainment also issued a statement denying such incident and claiming the footage is a scripted scene in the film.

[15] Screen Daily praises Lau's performance "in a role that requires alternating between suave precision and humble charm" as well as the technical elements but notes the uneveness in the middle part of the film.