JC's Scatter-Brained T
SPL 2 is a masterclass in storytelling.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
10/15/23
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Whitney S
What's not love? I cried, people got their ass kicked. It was fun and had meaning. Quit picking every detail apart people.
Rated 5/5 Stars •
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
09/19/23
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carlos t
Minha opinião: Um filme que não é continuação do SPL 1. Mas tras novamente um elenco de peso; Tonny, Wu Jing, Zhang Jin, Simon, Louis, Ken,..... Com este elenco de peso é claro que veremos muita porradaria. Um filme clássico asiático, a guerra da policia com a máfia. Onde temos um policial infiltrado na máfia que é Wu e seu tio que é Chefe da policia Simon. O sobrinho acaba viciando em ópio. Ele é pego por um gangster como dinheiro de troca por seu irmão, que ele precisa do coração dele para sobreviver. Assim Wu é enviado para uma prisão na Tailandia, onde esta o chefe da prisão Zhang e guardas Tony e Ken. E nesta prisão existem várias pessoas presas que são usadas para o trafico de órgão. E a filha Tony precisa fazer urgentemente um transplante de medula para sobreviver, e sem saber o doador é Wu. E assim esta armado todo filme, com várias reviravolta. Acreidto que o filme tem muita informação para ser administrada em um filme de 1:30 hs. Ou aumentaria o tempo ou diminuiria o conteúdo. Pois acaba fazendo o filme correr e mudar toda hora, os vários assuntos. Acabou virando pato. Mas não tira o brilho do filme.
Roteiro: Meio bagunçado.
Vale apena assistir? Sim
Nota: 6,5
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
03/30/23
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Audience Member
Awesome movie… a bit confusing at first but I think that was the point. Once it got going, total roller coaster with so many twists and turns.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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Liam D
The movie is fast paced and sometimes somber but the action sequences are top notch and Tony Jaa (Master Z: Ip Man Legacy, Ong Bak: Muay Thai Warrior) and Zhang Jin (Escape Plan: The Extractors, Pacific Rim: Uprising) do a great job
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
08/10/21
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This movie is a really hard one to assess - On one hand, it has a lot of very interesting plot threads, outstanding performances, solid technical merits, an outstanding musical score and three top-tier martial-artist leads -- on the other hand, it has a muddled plotline, poor pacing, murky backstory elements, inconsistent physics, and worst of all, a massive lack of catharsis when the heroes win the day. The original SPL felt like one of Hong Kong's first true foray's into making a Hollywood movie as well as Hollywood in terms of visual and audio appeal, while SPL2 seems to instead be relying on the same tricks that low-budget cinema always used to cover up production or budgetary gaps, only not necessary. Like, it went from Blockbuster to Anti-Blockbuster in only 1 subsequent entry, and that's really odd. I do know that this is from the Director of 'Dog Bite Dog', which I sorta loved for being daring and uncompromising, and this movie is both of those as well, but it's trying to juggle these with a more traditionally told Story/Plot. Hollywood tries to make uncompromising and experimental big-budget cinema, but usually it does not work very well, and for the same reasons that I feel this movie fails as well. The end fight scene, however, is where the movie's problems officially max out (pun intended), when Wu Jing & Tony Jaa, quite possibly the two greatest martial arts stars in the world, take on Max Zhang's villain together, but fail to ever land a single blow for most of the fight, as he literally cheats, adopting impossible gravity physics (like almost Crouching Tiger level) in a movie that is otherwise completely grounded in tangible reality; it's like watching two normal people fight a Matrix character in real life. But I don't want to harp on the movie too long, as the movie is actually ultimately worth watching - it's just somehow entered a nearly untouchable level of notoriety, and I don't really understand why, as just as much about this movie fails as it does succeed.
Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/23/23
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