Ying hung boon sik II (1987)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

John Woo

Writers:

Hark Tsui (story)
John Woo (writer)

Release Date:

17 December 1987 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

Plot Keywords:

Brother | Police | Mafia | Boss | Twins

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Dean Shek	...	Lung Si
Lung Ti	...	Sung Tse-Ho (also archive footage) (as Ti Lung)
Leslie Cheung	...	Sung Tse-Kit (also archive footage)
Yun-Fat Chow	...	Ken / Mark Lee / Mark 'Gor' (also archive footage) (as Chow Yun Fat)
Emily Chu	...	Jackie Sung
Fui-On Shing	...	Ko's Right-Hand Man
Kenneth Tsang	...	Ken
Regina Kent	...	Peggy Lung
Sing Chau Wai
Marco Wo
Ken Boyle	...	Bearded Crime Boss
Ming Yan Lung	...	Chong
Sammy Lee
Chindy Lau
Shan Kwan	...	Ko Ying Pui

Also Known As:

A Better Tomorrow II (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
Better Tomorrow: Rapid Fire II (Philippines: English title)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin | Cantonese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:R (Ontario) | Malaysia:18PL | France:-12 | South Korea:15 (2008) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) (re-rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | Hong Kong:IIB | New Zealand:R18 | Singapore:M18 | Singapore:NC-16 (cut) | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | UK:18 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:18 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | USA:R | Japan:R-15 | Ireland:18

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Cinema City Film Productions

Trivia:

Some of the incidental music consists of incidental music from the film 52 Pick-Up (1986).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During one of the action scenes at Ken's house you can clearly see that the sparks that are supposed to show the effects of bullets hitting a wall, are actually coming out of a pipe attached to the wall.

Quotes:

Ken: [To Ko and Sung, after a bloodbath] We're dying; can we leave now?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Soundtrack:

Forward To The Days In The Future

The final showdown steals the movie

This sequel to the 1986 predecessor is fantastic. Although Woo wasn't too happy about making a sequel and he didn't really care much about the film whilst making it, I think it totally worked and I think it's a lot better than the original. This time, the twin brother of Mark, (a character played by Chow Yun-Fat from the first A BETTER TOMORROW) Ken (Chow Yun Fat), must team up with undercover cop, Kit (Leslie Cheung), and his brother Ho (Ti Lung) and a good friend named Lung (Dean Shek) to avenge the death of Lung's daughter who was murdered by a Triads. Like the first film, it's got a hard storyline to follow, however, it has some fine acting that makes you care for the characters and it has some awesome action scenes (most notably, the final shootout). But if you liked the first A BETTER TOMORROW, then you'll enjoy this one even more.