Wolf Warrior 2

Netflix in Australia must be clamouring for an audience with this garbage, would never have watched it otherwise. Bad CGI, bad acting and Frank Grillo is top billing even though he's only slightly in it and even then he just seems like he's there for a paycheck. (The crap an actor will do for $$$$) As well as China having huge pride in ridding the world of its endangered animals, it's human rights violations including illegal organ harvesting and its ability to convince the world they are peaceful I say no, stick your cheap movie where it belongs.

I am not a big action movie fan, so didn't pay much attention to it when it just released. Ten days later the movie becomes a phenomenon and appears everywhere including the headline of business news section.I wouldn't ignore the great influence any more and followed the trend,even the tickets are still hard to get. The movie doesn't disappoint me. I brought my eye drop but didn't have time to use it for 2 hours. Tight plot with terrific action sceneries, the movie leaves no time for bathroom or chitchat. The smooth underwater fight, gun battles and tank drift made the heroism somehow becomes quite realistic. I guess that's the charm of it, which also causes controversy. Some people blame it for heroism and nationalism, while they love Hollywood movies for those"ism"s. Because it's way more realistic than superpowers and exaggerated heroics. Yes it's too real. The story was based on real historical event. I don't hate the propaganda part of the movie. Chinese love nationalism if it can be processed in a decent way. It's true that Jing Wu, the leading man, director and producer of the movie, mortgaged his houses for the film, because he didn't accept the investors' request to use pale pretty "actors" who can't act. His success is going to inspire the market capital flow to the valuable projects instead of pretty faces. That's a good sign for Chinese audience. It's a terrific action movie. Even the haters can't find big flaw other than "propaganda". The roles are charming with some level of depth. My favorite scene is the last fight which I cannot say lol

As a big fan of action movies, I have to say the plot is very similar to TEARS OF THE SUN, but much worse storyline and stupid. I cannot tell whether it's a plagiarism or not. It is good in action scenes, but the nationalism elements are too strong which makes it embarrassed.