I feel so sorry with my rice

The story and the film as a whole are not as good as the first movie, but there are parts in this sequel that are border line brilliant and awesome. One of the first things I will never forget is Chow Yun-Fat mocking a "mafioso" in New York by going into a full on Robert De Niro impression... in English!

I read that John Woo and the producer (Hark Tsui) couldn't agree during the movie about which direction the story should take, and it clearly shows. The story is missing the focus the first one had, but the ending of the movie makes up for it. The final action set piece is epic and better then anything that was in the first movie.

just an epic showdown scene in the end! bodycount of over 200 and the mandatory "john woo dual guns unlimited ammo effect"!

The final siege can be argued as the greatest moment in action cinema of the last 30 years. And Chow Yun Fat is the coolest motherfucker around.

John Woo's least favorite HK movie (He has said it in numerous occasion), and obvious cash grab from the first movie (bringing back Chow Yun Fat to play Mark's twin brother is pretty blatant). Though it also produced one of the coolest and bloodiest shoot out in movie history. The one shootout that made Chow Yun Fat an international movie star and one of the coolest man ever. Also one of the early films that spurred the HK Mafia films movement during the late 80s to early 90s.

I can't quite get passed the hooky revenge plot this time around. And while the violence didn't bother me, it's certainly excessive and gratuitous. I will give John Woo credit for one thing: He made it impossible for anyone to make another sequel out of this (though Tsui Hark made a prequel 2 years later with Chow Yun Fat).

This film contains the worst and best of Woo. The story is confusing, falls enough times in the ridiculous, especially trying to load the drama, the music is cheesy and often tiresome. But anyone would sell his grandmother to make action sequences like him.
The final round is superb.
It's cool how Woo honors many American films about crime here and a few years after the road is the opposite.
I love the spanish title for this one : Honor, lead and blood

Enoyable stuff, some pretty great action sequences again by Mr. Woo, but I just don't like how he puts together the story. There is no flow from scene to scene, and it feels rather jumpy. That said, I was entertained for large amounts of this film. Chow Yun-Fat really comes to form as the twin-brother of the character he played in the first one. The final shootout is immense, and it feels like where in the first one Woo was more keen on balancing character development and relationships with action, he in this one goes all out on the action, making it slightly more entertaining, but lacking in weight.

Chow Yun Fat is resurrected in the form of his previous character's twin brother for this sequel. Pretty much a rehash of the first but still thoroughly enjoyable stuff.

just an epic showdown scene in the end! bodycount of over 200 and the mandatory "john woo dual guns unlimited ammo effect"!

The story and the film as a whole are not as good as the first movie, but there are parts in this sequel that are border line brilliant and awesome. One of the first things I will never forget is Chow Yun-Fat mocking a "mafioso" in New York by going into a full on Robert De Niro impression... in English!

I read that John Woo and the producer (Hark Tsui) couldn't agree during the movie about which direction the story should take, and it clearly shows. The story is missing the focus the first one had, but the ending of the movie makes up for it. The final action set piece is epic and better then anything that was in the first movie.