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Review
by Kozo: |
Quickie sequel to the hit Young
and Dangerous focuses this time on Chicken (Jordan Chan
Siu-Chun), whose old boss and hot girlfriend (Chingmy Yau)
from Taiwan try to make an inroads into Macau. However, they
intend to do so at the cost of Chicken’s old gang, the Hung
Hing Group run by reinstated (and ever benevolent) boss Simon
Yam. Complicating things are a rivalry between Nam (Dior Cheng)
and fellow Hung Hing member and nose-picker Tai Fei (Anthony
Wong), who sides with the Taiwanese against his Hung Hing
brothers.
Featuring more young triad angst
and action, this sequel stands up to and even surpasses the
original. However, that might signify more of an HK movie
malaise than an actual stamp of quality. True, the film succeeds
on more levels because it has less comic book posturing and
concentrates more on actual realities of gang life. It ends
rather anticlimactically, though. As the scheming bad girl
from Taiwan, Chingmy Yau is pretty good, but that isn’t her
real voice we’re hearing. Kozo (1996) |
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