Simon Yam and Wu Jing return to the SPL saga but in completely different roles than the first one 10 years ago. Wilson Yip co directs this film, leaving the majority of the filming to director Cheang Pou-soi, hence the style of the film is much different and provides multi-layers to the action scenes. The Film focuses on 3 stories-lines mashed into one story to fit everything together. First is about Tony Jaa as a prison guard who daughter is sick and needs a rare transplant. The other story is Simon Yam out Wu Jing, his nephew undercover in an operation gone bad leaving Wu Jung in a Thailand prison. The film brings in a serious subjects with human trafficking and organ selling which seems to be a theme in the last few Thailand based films.
The story line is very lengthy and melodramatic but it brings out a lot of character development in Jing and Jaa's roles. This is Jaas best role( not saying much) but he looks like he can at least act here. The action scenes are far from each other in this 2 hour film( feels like 3) but the fight scenes are really good. The first Jaa-Jing fight scene was....
and the last fight scene is vicious minus the villain being some Super-Saiyan type shyt. Overall it's worth the watch considering it being more violent than the first but they are 2 different films( except for one scene...not going to say what it is but many can guess when they see it.
The story line is very lengthy and melodramatic but it brings out a lot of character development in Jing and Jaa's roles. This is Jaas best role( not saying much) but he looks like he can at least act here. The action scenes are far from each other in this 2 hour film( feels like 3) but the fight scenes are really good. The first Jaa-Jing fight scene was....
and the last fight scene is vicious minus the villain being some Super-Saiyan type shyt. Overall it's worth the watch considering it being more violent than the first but they are 2 different films( except for one scene...not going to say what it is but many can guess when they see it.