Leng is a cocky sniper who disobeys a direct order and does some fancy snipering and takes out the leader of the smuggling group. For his efforts he gets thrown in jail, draws the attention of the smuggler's older and more successful crime boss brother, and gets recruited into the elite special forces detachment called the War Wolves. The crime boss hires a group of mercenaries led by Scott Adkins who plays an ex-US Navy Seal named Tomcat.
The action set pieces are well choreographed but nothing overly impressive. The climax fight between Jing and Scott is decent but quite underwhelming, considering how much of a good fighters the two actors are, the sequence should have run a bit long. The film also features one scene with wolves, why? Because you know, there's "wolf" in the film's title. To make matters worse, they used a very cheap and silly-looking CGI to bring them to life, I could do without the sequence, truth be told. The in-your-face patriotism is quite annoying and melodramatic and could use some subtlety. The main character Leng seems a little invisible, during the forest sequence he was clearly shot (in the left chest) but this guy continues running as if the bullet gives him more adrenaline and why does he always sweats profusely? It feels like a good third of the running time of this film is spent doing close-ups of his sweaty face.
All in all, Wolf warrior is an ok action flick with entertaining action and average story.
The action set pieces are well choreographed but nothing overly impressive. The climax fight between Jing and Scott is decent but quite underwhelming, considering how much of a good fighters the two actors are, the sequence should have run a bit long. The film also features one scene with wolves, why? Because you know, there's "wolf" in the film's title. To make matters worse, they used a very cheap and silly-looking CGI to bring them to life, I could do without the sequence, truth be told. The in-your-face patriotism is quite annoying and melodramatic and could use some subtlety. The main character Leng seems a little invisible, during the forest sequence he was clearly shot (in the left chest) but this guy continues running as if the bullet gives him more adrenaline and why does he always sweats profusely? It feels like a good third of the running time of this film is spent doing close-ups of his sweaty face.
All in all, Wolf warrior is an ok action flick with entertaining action and average story.