Proud and Confident

Proud and Confident is a 1989 Hong Kong action film directed by King Lee and starring Andy Lau as an overconfident, elite police inspector and sharpshooter who is recruited to train to become the "Best of the Best" future leader of the Hong Kong Police Force. Along his journey, he goes through mistakes and errors attributed to his ego which learns from and regains his fighting spirit. Plot The Royal Hong Kong Police Force is preparing for changes in the coming ten years where they were be in charge of the military as well, so they set up a B.O.B. Program, which stands for Best of the Best, where they recruit young elite police inspector to go through intensive training to become the cream of the crop in the force. Inspector Lee Kin-wah (Andy Lau), an ace marksman, writes a self-recommendation letter to join the program. In an incident where a psycho thinking he is Sun Wukong holds five children hostage at a gas station, Kin-wah manages to take down the psycho despite the risk of causing an explosion. Kin-wah's superior officer, George, reprimands him for his cavalier attitude, but Kin-wah assures he was confident at the scene. George rips up Kin-wah's self-recommendation letter but George's superior officer compliments Kin-wah and tells George to recommend Kin-wah to the B.O.B. Kin-wah enrolls in the B.O.B. with his best friend, Wai (Michael Miu) where they meet other recruits including the muscle-bound Popeye (Dick Wei), and his straight-faced friend, He-Man (Francis Ng), who is not a fan of Kin-wah's overconfidence. Kin-wah excels at the training exercises at B.O.B. While taking a tactical research class, where he interrupts his instructor, Jennifer Tang (Rosamund Kwan). Jennifer then brings up the gas station incident where Wah boasts his confidence during the situation, but she rebuts he was not 100% he would make the shot. Despite so, he attempts to court her. Later during a training exercise, where two teams including Kin-wah and Wai in one and Popeye and He-Man in the other, the former team wins but everyone was reprimanded by their head instructor, Chiu (David Lam), as neither team played fair. Jennifer  later briefs the B.O.B. about the international crime syndicate, I.B.S., which consists of former Vietnam War soldiers has expanded their activities to Hong Kong and their destructive power is Grade A according to the International Security Measures, while the Hong Kong Police is only on Grade C.