Shock Wave 2 (2020)

Shock Wave 2: Directed by Herman Yau. With Andy Lau, Ching Wan Lau, Ni Ni, Kwan-Ho Tse. When a bomb went off unexpectedly during a police operation to disarm it, Poon Shing-Fung, a bomb disposal officer, got caught in the blast and thus lost one of his legs. Poon decided to leave the police service. Three years later, the police suspect Poon, who was found in a coma at the spot of a terrorist bombing attack, of being involved in several bombing attacks in the past two years. Poon can hardly remember his past and even his own identity due to Post Traumatic Amnesia. He plans to escape to find out the truth. Meanwhile, knowing the terrorist organization’s schemes of destroying Hong Kong landmarks, Poon, as the key person between the police and the terrorist organization, would possibly save or destroy lives of the innocent civilians in the city.

“The good thing about a lot of Herman Yauu0026#39;s movies is good or bad, they donu0026#39;t drag. He understands action is his strength and he doesnu0026#39;t waste much time in character development or melodrama setup. And I believe for the most part the movie delivers on the.fast paced action. Andy Lauu0026#39;s character is much deeper than his usual HK action hero setup and surprisingly, I think he did a good job with it too. Sean Lau OTOH, has very little to work with for his character and when the movie ends you can barely remember much about his character other than it just keep the plot going.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut assuming most audience are in the theatre for the action I think a few of the bomb defusing scenes do keep you on the edge of your seats. Now there are things that make no sense logically in the movie (for starter, just because you jump into a swimming pool it doesnu0026#39;t mean you can survive a jump from 10 stories high), and the plot twists also makes no sense if you come to think of it – the police chiefs who you told the audience just 10 minutes ago are too chicken to take the risk and do the right things, all of a sudden buys into a super risky proposal which they have nothing to gain from. But just forget logic and fine, you can at least enjoy the twists and the action … and the action scenes donu0026#39;t disappoint …u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e… with the exception of 1 major problem : the subway train scenes (it is not a spoiler, you see that in the first min of the movie). That is, by far, the WORST CG I have seen in a movie since maybe the late 90u0026#39;s. What the heck was that? The movie seems to have overachieve with a limited budget and the result was pretty disastrous visually. I donu0026#39;t think that is acceptable even for a TV series in 2021, never mind a blockbuster movie. I tried to overlook but it was a pretty glaring letdown.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll in all, good action flick with a weak plot that makes little sense, a few misses here and there but itu0026#39;s still a solid 7/10 to me.”