![]() ![]() ![]() They flee to the factory, where they are quickly surrounded by the rebel army and targeted by a multiethnic band of vicious mercenaries led by Frank Grillo. He doesn’t save that doctor, but he does rescue a much prettier one, along with a young girl. After making his way through war-torn streets to the safety of the Chinese Embassy with an old Chinese man and his young African godson, Wu is sent back into the country to rescue Chinese factory workers (and the boy’s mother) and also to rescue a Chinese doctor, who may have a cure for the fatal disease. He’s working on a boat based in a fictional country in Africa which is in the middle of a civil war and also suffering from an outbreak of a fictional disease. The sequel finds Leng kicked out of the army (for the crime of attacking a scummy landlord) and depressed (because his girlfriend, the leader of the Wolf Warriors, has gone missing and is presumed dead). The film is an unabashed propaganda piece about the skills, technology, and valor of the PLA, but it’s got a lot of cool jungle action and it moves along quickly. During a training exercise, he and his squadmates are attacked by a multiethnic band of vicious mercenaries led by Scott Adkins who was hired by a drug lord seeking revenge on Leng for murdering his brother, and also as the cover for a scheme to steal a virus that only kills Chinese people. In the first one, he played Leng Feng, a badass soldier who gets recruited into the Wolf Warrior brigade of the People’s Liberation Army, an elite special forces unit. He both stars and directs, as he did with Wolf Warriors, released in 2015. ![]() Wu is probably the greatest Chinese martial arts star of his generation, best known here in the US for his starring role in SPL 2: A Time for Consequences, which was the best action film to play here last year. Somewhat surprisingly, Wu Jing’s Wolf Warrior 2 is smashing box office records across China, on pace to overtake last year’s The Mermaid as the number one Chinese film of all-time. ![]()
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