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Tomorrow: Part 2 was nowhere near as good as the first one. The acting and the
story were a step up, and I didn’t have to deal with the annoying character Kit
(Ho’s brother), who in the first film overacted his anger at his brother to the
point where I wanted him shot. Kit here is still headstrong and refuses to do
what he’s supposed to, but at least his overacting of an angered brother is
gone.
The first film
was so well done that Chow Yun-fat was catapulted to the limelight, even though
his character played a supporting role.
If you recall,
at the end of the first film, his character Mark dies. The way they bring him
back for this film is by saying that Mark had a twin who lives in New York, and
he’s just as good, if not better, with a gun. The first thing that crossed my
mind when I saw that was how much this reminded me of soap operas.
Like in the
first film, there’s a lot of gunplay in the end when the men have to take on
the main villain.
The movie is set
years after the events of the first film. Ho and Kit are now reunited as
brothers, and all is well in the family at the moment—except Ho is in jail. Ho
is serving time for his role in the crimes he committed in the first film.
Ho is then
approached to help bring down his old boss and mentor, Lung. He initially
refuses out of respect for his mentor, but when he hears that his brother Kit
is already undercover in Lung’s organization, he agrees.
When he
approaches his mentor, Lung tells him that he’s abandoned the illegal business
and is now going legitimate. The problem is that counterfeiting is happening,
and all traces lead to him and his organization.
Things get crazy
very quickly, and soon we land in New York, where Lung is trying to get control
of things. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Ho is rising up in the organization,
wanting to know more about the dealings. It’s in New York that Ken (Mark’s twin
brother) takes care of Lung until they both return to Hong Kong.
How everything
hits the fan and blows up is left for you to see when you watch this movie. For
me, see the first one and leave this one alone.
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