Kill the Wolf 2: Half Kill Half Redeem

The core of action movies is to solve the crisis by force, so good action movies not only have dazzling and exciting action scenes, but also have stories that reveal the profound side of human nature, killing and redemption should coexist, indispensable.

Evaluating "Kill the Wolf 2" as a rescue work of the action film, there is no exaggeration, "Kill the Wolf 2" is a good way to unify the action and the story, both the tradition of Hong Kong police films - righteous complex, human struggle, but also the improvement of the story pattern, Thai black prison, human trafficking, human organ trading... Compared with the police films and action movies that have been declining in recent years, "Kill the Wolf 2" wins in a rich story level, more dark and tangled human contradictions, and explosive fight scenes.

The story level comes from the hidden reality of each character, every character in it, are faced with the dilemma of self-help and redemption of others, the undercover agent played by Wu Jing is not only controlled by drug addiction, but also trapped in the Thai black prison, becoming the target of revenge by the criminal group, how to save himself, and completing the rescue of Uncle Hua who came alone to find himself, which became an unavoidable problem for him; and the Thai prison guard Achai is in an unprecedented predicament to save his daughter suffering from blood cancer, in addition to the economic difficulties, There is also a struggle from the depths of the soul – how to deal with the women who are waiting to be slaughtered? Even Gu Tianle, who does not have many scenes, also stages a struggle between brotherly flesh and blood emotions and the desire to survive in the film, so that the story adds more human considerations to the plight of so many characters.

The story has not ignored the situation of the little people because of the fierceness of the fight, and it is not abrupt that every character who has appeared in the story, even if it is like an ordinary prison guard, a hospital nurse, a private doctor, a gangster killer, all have a plot account from beginning to end, implying the cycle of impermanence of fate and the retribution of good and evil. It is precisely because the story of each character is complete that this film has a thick emotional base.

And Wu Jing, Zhang Jin, Toni Jia is undoubtedly the action film Xu Zheng Huang Bo Wang Baoqiang trio combination, the three action routines are different, the formation of the combination has its own wonderful points, has won the national martial arts competition elite gun art, the practice champion Wu Jing, the action has a strong performance nature, is the most scarce form of expression on the current big screen. The famous Thai action actor Tony Jai brings the authenticity, difficulty and thrills of Muay Thai to the audience, which is a field rarely explored in Chinese martial arts. Zhang Jin, who has had a wonderful performance in "A Generation of Grandmasters", is even more amazing in this film, and its smooth action performance even has some retro meaning, but unfortunately, Zhang Jin does not have a "heroic face", and can only be used as a villain, in the film, the dragon and tiger jump over the river and the sea.

The collection of so many elements has also made "Broken Wolf 2" a "Tai 囧" in action movies, from the confrontation between police and bandits in Hong Kong to the life and death proposition of Thailand's black hell, looking for the fate of redemption in a violent and bloody fight.