Viy 2: Journey to China (2019)
4/10
Starring
Jason Flemyng
Helen Yao
Jackie Chan
Directed by Oleg Stepchenko
VIY 2 is the sequel to VIY
(2014). Both are Russian fantasy adventure movies, and this
has more action and less comedy than the
first. The action in this does not make up for the lack of
comedy and thrill. While the
first movie had Jonathan Green (the lead) going about Europe,
this has him getting into Asia, most especially China. Viy is a
Russian movie based off Nikolai Gogol's horror story of the same
name.
I liked the
first VIY (2014), mostly because the story was simple and
less complex. All you have to do to enjoy it is to just listen and
follow the story. Here, they added a lot of mystery and did not
bother trying to explain or reveal them
VIY 2 is not a good movie other than the finally battle where good
had to take on evil, everything else about the movie falls below par.
Although liked the
first I enjoyed seeing how many things which looked mystic
were revealed to be basic. But there was still some mystic things
about how these men managed to do the things they did.
This movie has so many subplots all tangled up into one, that
Jonathan Green’s story was just a subplot in the main plot. The
movie so much digressed from the
first concerning the plot, that the writers did not bother
trying to tie lose ends.
The movie starts with us getting to know some mystic tale about a
dragon in China whose eye lashes were the main ingredients for some
mystic tea. Some set of people called White Wizards were caring for
the dragon and they were responsible for cutting its lashes. Then
some evil ones came and took over, because of greed.
With that tale explained in the begining of the movie we then see
Jonathan captured because he was able to recognize an impostor. He
was set free later on to continue his journey of drawing his maps and
he was paid to go draw the map of Asia. He agreed to, but for one
condition that he will take a young man with him. The man according
to him cared for him when he was imprisoned, so both were free and
sent on their way. While some men were told to waylay them and kill
them, because Jonathan knows more than he should.
The young man with Jonathan proved to be a master of martial arts and
saved Jonathan. Now they are heading to China.
We soon gather that the young man was someone special, who needs to
get to his home in China to save his people from the the evil men
whom is believed to control the dragon.
We have Jackie Chan play a role in this movie and his part and that
of Arnold Schwarzenegger were that of supporting cast. What they
brought to this movie is irrelevant to the main plot, and the movie
would have gone on smother if they were not in it to complicate
things further.
If you have seen VIY
(2014) and you are curious of what happened to Jonathan, well
allow your curiosity let your mind think up a better continuation,
because this will not do.
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