The follow-up of the first film, this one sets after the death of Ying. Tai, who is Ying's best friend, is an undercover cop trying to uncover the crimes of a gang.
San, a reoccurring character from the first one, survived the beat up towards the end of the film and continues to live in the sequel. We can see that San has changed from the first one as she is more afraid and passive. Tai, a new character, pretends to be tough on the outside to fit in the gang but is really actually sensitive.
I will not to compare the two films because they are separate but I will sometimes mention a few things that relate to the first film. Throughout the film, there are many flashbacks and talks about the death of Ying from the first film. The new storyline is more of a cop and mob plot. It does not really fit in with the first film because if San was not put into the story, the plot would be the same. The director's attempt to relate the stories did really poorly as San does not get any character development because she is no longer the main character. That deducts 2 points from the 10.
In the first film, there were not so many violent scenes. Since I can watch such violence, I don't think it was that gory. But what I do think of the beating scenes are extremely unnecessary. I understand that in reality gangs may have tortures even worse than shown in films, but the beatings in this are so unnecessary to the story as a whole. The unnecessary and incessant beatings deducts another 2 points.
The last 3 points I deducted was from the storyline itself. Tai's show up was really random with a whole new background. If the director wanted the audience to get the sense of Tai's actions and motives, she should at least give more background of Tai instead of reminiscing about Ying for half of the film. The last two scenes I almost couldn't bear, not because of the violence but because I kept on repeating to myself "WHAT THE F**K IS HAPPENING?!?!" People come out of everywhere and somehow connect to the whole gang and the beating starts. ALL the character's motives are SO unclear and unknown.
I give the 3 points because there are a FEW touchy scenes. The acting was great and I appreciate the effort.
To round up the whole film, and dare I say the first film as well, in a sentence is 'a story with innocent people getting beat up by random gangs.' In the end, every protagonist dies, no explanations are given, and no one needs to see the sequel to learn what happens after Ying's death. Why? Because everyone else follows her path. It goes downhill from there.
The first film is worth your time. This film makes you wish you just stayed with the first film.
San, a reoccurring character from the first one, survived the beat up towards the end of the film and continues to live in the sequel. We can see that San has changed from the first one as she is more afraid and passive. Tai, a new character, pretends to be tough on the outside to fit in the gang but is really actually sensitive.
I will not to compare the two films because they are separate but I will sometimes mention a few things that relate to the first film. Throughout the film, there are many flashbacks and talks about the death of Ying from the first film. The new storyline is more of a cop and mob plot. It does not really fit in with the first film because if San was not put into the story, the plot would be the same. The director's attempt to relate the stories did really poorly as San does not get any character development because she is no longer the main character. That deducts 2 points from the 10.
In the first film, there were not so many violent scenes. Since I can watch such violence, I don't think it was that gory. But what I do think of the beating scenes are extremely unnecessary. I understand that in reality gangs may have tortures even worse than shown in films, but the beatings in this are so unnecessary to the story as a whole. The unnecessary and incessant beatings deducts another 2 points.
The last 3 points I deducted was from the storyline itself. Tai's show up was really random with a whole new background. If the director wanted the audience to get the sense of Tai's actions and motives, she should at least give more background of Tai instead of reminiscing about Ying for half of the film. The last two scenes I almost couldn't bear, not because of the violence but because I kept on repeating to myself "WHAT THE F**K IS HAPPENING?!?!" People come out of everywhere and somehow connect to the whole gang and the beating starts. ALL the character's motives are SO unclear and unknown.
I give the 3 points because there are a FEW touchy scenes. The acting was great and I appreciate the effort.
To round up the whole film, and dare I say the first film as well, in a sentence is 'a story with innocent people getting beat up by random gangs.' In the end, every protagonist dies, no explanations are given, and no one needs to see the sequel to learn what happens after Ying's death. Why? Because everyone else follows her path. It goes downhill from there.
The first film is worth your time. This film makes you wish you just stayed with the first film.