The opening twenty minutes are pure visual ambition: a deliveryman on a neon-soaked bike navigates a future city that moves like a living thing, and you feel the weight of every turn before anything supernatural happens. When Nezha's power returns, the action stops pretending to serve the plot and just becomes what the film actually cares about, spectacular for its own sake. The story itself barely holds together, but the CGI work is so technically precise that you stop noticing the generic conflict underneath and just watch things collide in impossible ways.

In Donghai City, a coastal city that suffers from a shortage of rain and fresh water all year, Lin Yunxiang lives an ordinary life as a deliveryman and devoted motorcycle racing fan. After his vehicle collides with that of the rich heir to the city's water utility, he is attacked by people with superpowers. The assault awakens a hidden, mysterious force sleeping within him: Nezha. Facing old nemeses who want vengeance against him, he has to rediscover his abilities to protect the people he loves, while a larger conspiracy waits in the background. The film is a fantasy action story with science fiction elements.