In 1986, directed by Wu Yusen and produced by Xu Ke, "The True Colors of Heroes" was released and won the hong Kong film box office in the same year.
The success of the film made the producer, New Art City Pictures, smile and decide to prepare a sequel immediately.
At first, Wu Yusen was reluctant to shoot this movie, in his opinion, the story of "The True Colors of Heroes" was already very complete, and there was no need to continue.
But later, under The Repeated Actions of Xu Ke, he still agreed to the request of the film company, so "Hero Nature 2" came out.
The story tells that Inspector Hu (Liu Zhaoming) suspected that Long Si (Shi Tian) was printing counterfeit money under the cover of the shipyard, so he sent Ah Hao (Dillon) and his brother Ajie (Zhang Guorong) to go undercover together.
In fact, Long Si has been washing his hands for many years, but his deputy Gao Yingpei (Guan Shan) has been secretly tricking the ghost. In order to re-operate the counterfeit banknote business and make high profits from it, Gao Yingpei did not hesitate to frame Long Si to force him to flee to New York, USA, and then sent assassins to ambush Long Si and kill his daughter Xiao Hui (Jian Huizhen), and Long Si was also mentally disturbed by a huge mental stimulation, but fortunately was saved by Xiao Mark's twin brother Ah Ken (Zhou Runfa).
After some investigation, Ah Hao and Ajay believe that Gao Yingpei is the one behind the counterfeit money business, and in the process of trying to get close to Gao Yingpei, the old and treacherous other wants to test Ah Hao to kill Ajay, so Ah Hao has to shoot at his brother in pain, so as to gain Gao Yingpei's trust.
At this time, Long Si, who had regained his sanity during the gun battle, decided to seek revenge on Gao Yingpei with AhKen, and after returning to Hong Kong, they and Ah Hao and A jie finally confirmed that Gao Yingjie's residence was the base camp for printing counterfeit money, but Ajie was also unfortunately killed.
At the end of the film, Dragon Fourth, who is saddled with a deep vengeance in the blood sea, Ah Hao and Ah Ken prepare enough firepower to enter Gao Yingjie's villa, vowing to fight a life-and-death battle with each other.
As Wu Yusen said, this barely filmed "Hero Essence 2" has indeed become a dog-tailed sable work. Although the whole story is not too much of a problem, but many details are not rigorous, such as the acquaintance process between Dragon Four and Aken, the movie did not talk about it at all, and the reason why Dragon Fourth went crazy is also very far-fetched, and the motivation of Ajie's behavior to perform the task despite his wife who is in labor is also confusing, so that the whole film lacks a certain sense of truth, and everywhere is filled with flowing "love" and formal action scenes.
Strictly speaking, the violent aesthetic color that Wu Yusen poured into this film is even worse than the first episode, and the final gun battlefield at the end of the film is also larger than the first episode, especially the scene where the three people break into Gao Yingpei's villa and sweep through thousands of troops is extremely imposing, but the setting of Dragon Fourth, Ah Ken and Ah Hao who was shot several times and did not die is also obviously set with the "protagonist aura", which is very unscientific.
The original protagonists of "The True Colors of Heroes" were Dillon and Zhang Guorong, but the most popular in the end was the little mark brother played by Zhou Runfa, who also won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in one fell swoop.
Therefore, when starting to shoot this sequel, Zhou Runfa is naturally indispensable, but what if Little Mark has died in the first episode? Of course, this is not difficult for the supervising producer Xu Ke, who wrote the role of Xiao Mark's twin brother Ah Ken, so that the core character of the film, Zhou Runfa, can be "resurrected" in this "Hero 2".
It is not uncommon for the same actor to play multiple roles in the same series, but in order to find Chow Yun Fat 2, "Hero Essence 2" rigidly engaged in the role of a twin brother, which obviously does not make sense: Did Ah Hao never know that Little Mark had a brother?
The most intolerable thing is that the film in order to constantly provoke the audience's memories of little mark brother, but also draw the story of little mark brother into a comic and become part of the movie plot, sometimes self-tribute is too much, it becomes a pretense.
Although "Hero 2" is not the movie that Wu Yusen really wants to make, there are still many remarkable places in the film, such as a scene in which the killers under Ah Ken and Gao Yingpei draw their guns and shoot each other, which has a very good taste of martial arts films, and from here it is enough to see that Wu Yusen is indeed a teacher.
In addition, Ajay named his newborn daughter a paragraph before his death, whether it is Zhang Guorong's performance or the rendering of the tragic atmosphere is very tear-inducing, as long as it is a father, the audience can definitely experience this emotion.
Unfortunately, "Hero 2", which was originally filmed for more than three hours, was deleted for more than 20 minutes due to the length of time, and the opponent scenes of Zhang Guorong and Zhou Runfa were deleted the most, which made the overall effect affected to a certain extent.
Later, according to Wu Yusen, the "Hero True Colors 2" he conceived in his mind was originally a prequel to the first episode, but it was opposed by Xu Ke, and the main narrative line was finally selected on Long Si, played by Shi Tian.
The shift in plot focus and the forced substitution of important characters in the first part are also a major factor in the reputation of this film that is not as good as the first part.
However, with the Yu Wei of the previous episode and the box office appeal of Chow Yun Fat, the film still earned more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars after its release, ranking sixth in the year.
However, during the filming, Wu Yusen also had a huge creative difference with Xu Ke, so later, Wu Yusen directly withdrew from "The True Colors of Heroes", and the third episode was taken over by Xu Ke himself, Xu Ke originally wanted to make "Heroes 3" the biggest part of the entire series pattern and vision, but it still lacked heat in handling action scenes, and the result became the closing work of the series.
Overall, the "Hero's True Colors" series is only the first part of the real boutique, "Heroes' True Colors 2" Although the completion of the story is there, but it is only superficially exquisite, commercialism completely overshadows the authorship and artistry, I don't know what everyone thinks about this film?