Lawless Kingdom (2013)

Four detectives, each with supernatural powers, dedicate their unique and special skills to solving crimes and apprehending powerful criminals.

Director:

Gordon Chan

Writers:

Gordon Chan, Koon-Nam Lui

Stars:

Chao Deng, Yifei Liu, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong

Cast

Credited cast:
Chao Deng	...	Leng Lingqi (Coldblood) (as Deng Chao)
Yifei Liu	...	Shong Yayu (Emotionless) (as Liu Yi Fei)
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong	...	Zhuge Zhenwo (as Anthony Wong)
Collin Chou	...	Tie Yourda (Iron Hands)
Ronald Cheng	...	Cui Lueshang (Life Snatcher)
Ken Lo
Xiubo Wu
Yiyan Jiang
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bingkun Cao	...	Cheng Xiang
Yuki Li	...	Feng Ming
Awayne Liu	...	Jiang Lei
Angela Qiu	...	Dragonfly
Emma Wu	...	Ding Dong

Storyline

Four detectives (Emotionless, Iron Hands, Life Snatcher, and Coldblood), each uniquely skilled with their own individual superpowers, are sent to investigate a murder outside the city. During the investigation, they unexpectedly stumble across clues to an unsolved murder from 12 years previous that hits close to home for one of them. Suddenly, the investigation becomes all too personal, and the detectives must put their lives on the line to solve this crime!

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Plot Keywords:

3 dimensional | supernatural power | detective | flying | martial arts | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some bloody violence

Details

Country:

China Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin Cantonese

Release Date:

1 September 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Lawless Kingdom

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

118 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by The Four 3 (2014)

User Reviews

Somewhat confusing and not up to par with part 1...

I tremendously enjoyed the 2012 movie "The Four" (aka "Si da ming bu"), so I was thrilled to get to sit down and watch "Lawless Kingdom" (aka "Si da ming bu 2"), the sequel to the entertaining 2012 movie.

It turned out that the sequel wasn't quite as good, and the reason for this was because of a very confusing character gallery. There is a heap of characters in the storyline, most of which you hardly get to form any relations to, and hardly even remember their names. And it just seemed a bit too chaotic and confusing to me. So that was definitely an anchor dragging the movie down.

The action and fighting sequences in this movie were good though, but mind you that you need to be a fan of the wire-fu martial arts movies to properly enjoy this, because they perform physical feats that are hardly nowhere near possible to perform.

They do have a good ensemble of casted actors and actresses, and it is great to see people return to reprise their characters from the 2012 "The Four" movie.

I sat through this entire movie, but I was only mildly entertained in comparison to the predecessor movie. A shame really, because it definitely had potential. And this second movie in the trilogy turned out to be as bland and mediocre as the third movie also is. Sad to say...