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If you enjoy Hong Kong action flicks, then you're likely to enjoy The White Storm 2: Drug Lords. It's recommended viewing for fans of the genre.

The raison d'être for this movie is that it showcases Hong Kong's classic film style of drug gang, extensive car chase/wreck, shoot-out, action scenes at an extreme level. So many fight scenes it, at times, was difficult to tell who's bad, who's good, and who's either both or neither. Great at what it was meant to be.

All the leading actors in this movie did a great job. Unlike "The Invincible Dragon (2019)" that turned out to be a nothing-is-right big laughable joke, this movie about the Hong Kong drug cartel on the contrary, turned out to be everything-is-right serious and decent enough to be tagged as a "Pretty Good Movie" in 2019. The screenplay, the scenarios, the plots and the dialog are all quite mature, the casting, the acting, the directing, the stunt as well as the special effect, the editing, and the subtle soundtrack....all of them, one word: GOOD.

(2019) The White Storm 2: Drug Lords CRIME DRAMA/ ACTION THRILLER

Co-written and directed by Herman Yau that has the second film that is unrelated to the first "White Storm" movie except by only title. Even Louis Koo character is different who's name and perhaps persona is different that he played on the first movie. In other words, the second film can still be watched without the first one even being watched at all.

The synopsis opens with Yu Shun Tin (Andy Lau) girlfriend leaving him as a result of his gangster lifestyle. And is ordered by his boss, called Chief/ Yu Nam (Kent Cheng) to pick up a guy name Dizang and he turns out to be the same actor played by Louis Koo, who played as an undercover narc, So Kin-chow in the first "The White Storm". Louis Koo is a total different character in this one. This time he plays a gangster, Dizang aka Fung Chun Kwok who owns a few nightclubs and sells drugs, mainly coke. It appears, some of his guys have been dealing on the Chief's turf. And the Chief wants Dizang to put a stop to it, forcing Yu Shun Tin to punish him severely by removing some of his fingers, putting a strain on their long time relationship. The movie then jumps 15 years later, and Yu Shun Tin goes on his own, and is involved in a new relationship. This time it is with a speaker, Michelle Chow (Karena Kar-Yan Lam) and has become a successful investor, and is also involved in the narcotics bureau, while Dizang continues to do what he does which is to continue to produce drugs and dealing. Yu Shun Tin then receives a letter that the previous girlfriend who had left him at the opening, now tells him she has cancer is going to die that the last pregnancy she had, that the person she had a child was actually her son named Danny. And has apparently took the wrong path and is is an addict. Leading to the both of them to cross paths again, for it is just a matter of when.

As a action fan of 1990's movies I give this a pass and a slight improvement over the first movie that is full of way too many dramatic scenes that motivated me to use the mute button. There is at least 2 or 3 action sequences that I thought is worth watching- one after the 30 minute mark during the drug bust raid by the police. Actual car crashes and stunt men can clearly be seen, rolling off of cars and so forth, and the final car chase toward the end that led to an obvious CGI subway crash that would have costed a lot of money had it been an actual subway car that was used.

Sao Du 2: Tian Di Dui Jue aka The White Storm 2: Drug Lords is a Hong Kong film produced in this year 2019. As much as I've watched Hong Kong films, I find that Hong Kong films are basically for entertainment only. It doesn't have special purpose. But this one is quite different.

What I love of this film is the objective. Drugs are very dangerous and bad. Drugs destroy people and even kill people. So, everyone should stay away from drugs and also authorities should take care of drug lords. I feel like they are the biggest enemies to us like this film shows.

The film is basically fine. As the one who expected to see some action, well, I was a little bit disappointed. All they did was shoot the gun. No fighting. Moreover, it is clearly said the film is in "Action" genre right here on IMDB, but in the film, there wasn't that much action. Thus, if they made it more action, yeah, it'd be better.

I kind of don't like how it ended. It's so sad. I kind of wanted to see some happy ending. And also I feel like they are deliberately stretching the plot to make the film longer and longer. Some of the scenes are so boring and unnecessary. So, yeah, I'd say it wasn't my taste that much.

The only one thing I can't think of is the English title. Why did they give such a title? Because the English title and the contents are not the same. In the other words, it's not the right title. As for Chinese title, I feel like it's quite OK.

Overall is that this film is kind of simple but it really has great objectives. So, I'd say authorities should watch it, so that they could eliminate drug lords (and drugs) to save more people. Hence, it's a fine film.