Pegasus 3

"Let's lay out the road and race ahead."

2026 2h 6m ZH

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7.0

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★7.0TMDB · 50

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Synopsis

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Bearing the glory of being the 'King of Bayanbulak', Zhang Chi once again embarks on his racing journey, aiming not only to win the race but also to achieve something beyond the competition itself.

“Let's lay out the road and race ahead.”

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Cast

Shen Teng
Zhang Chi
Yin Zheng
Sun Yuqiang
Johnny Huang
Lin Zhendong
Zhang Benyu
Ji Xing
Wei Xiang
Manager Ye
Sha Yi
Bai Qiang
Fan Chengcheng
Li Xiaohai
Sun Yizhou
Liu Xiande

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Han Han
Writers: Han Han, Zhou Yunhai, Meng Wenyu
Languages: Mandarin
Countries: China

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $80M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 8.2× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Pegasus Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Han Han, shot by Bai Yuxia. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Roc Chen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Shen Teng and Yin Zheng and Johnny Huang carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Let's lay out the road and race ahead.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Han Han directs. Bai Yuxia behind the camera. Roc Chen scores. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in China. Dialogue in Mandarin.

Trivia

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1Mid-budget at $80M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 8.2× over at the box office.
3Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
4Part of the "Pegasus Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5Directed by Han Han, shot by Bai Yuxia. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Roc Chen. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Shen Teng and Yin Zheng and Johnny Huang carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Let's lay out the road and race ahead.".
9IMDB entry: tt38035835 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 50 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Bai Yuxia
Original score: Roc Chen
VFX supervisor: Qiao Le
Runtime: 126 min · 2h 6m
Status: Released
Budget: $80,000,000
Box office: $656,459,523
Return: 821% of budget
Original language: ZH
IMDB: Pegasus 3 (2026)

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Pegasus Collection

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Han Han

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CinemaSerf2026-03-12
★ 6/10
The recently lauded winner of the Bayanbulak rally is drafted in by his friend (Sha Yi) to head up a new and well resourced team to try to put a Chinese team on the map amongst the international rallying community. “Zhang Chi” (Teng Chen) is told he can recruit the best he can; the tech is to be as good as it gets and so he confidently approaches the qualifying stages of the Muchen 100. Thing is, no sooner are they on the course than their turbos start to fail, none of his team make it to the finish line and in shame he has to resign. What we have known all along is that some serious mischief is afoot and when he discovers just what happened, and who was behind it, he, his co-driver (Yin Zheng) and their former team manager turned Uber-driver (Wei Xiang) set about freelancing their way into the race and proving that it really is the driver and the car who can make all the difference. In some ways this works quite effectively at casting aspersions on the automated nature of modern-day motorsport where just about everything is controlled remotely by the geeks with the computers back in a lab, but the rest of it has much more of the “Whacky Races” to it as what jeopardy there was gives way to some, admittedly quite entertaining at times, all-terrain driving that would probably have wrecked a Sherman tank let alone an high-performance Audi. Though it does ping at the sheer industrialisation of this sport, it doesn’t really go into characterisations so much and aside from Teng Chen’s we don’t really get to know anyone at all and his opposition are presented in an unremarkably sterile fashion that rather sums this whole film up. There does look like there is some real footage here, but it is difficult to distinguish that from the plentiful CGI and at times it reminded me of the pod racing scenes from the start of “The Phantom Menace” (1999). It’s watchable enough and there is some fun to be had, but I felt it struggled to sustain two hours of cinema.

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