Cold War 2 (film)
| Cold War 2 | |
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Official film poster
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| Traditional | 寒戰II |
| Simplified | 寒战II |
| Mandarin | Hán Zhàn Èr |
| Cantonese | Hon4 Zin3 Ji6 |
| Directed by | Longman Leung Sunny Luk |
| Produced by |
William Kong Ivy Ho Jiang Ping Zhao Haicheng Fan Kim-hung |
| Written by | Jack Ng Longman Leung Sunny Luk |
| Starring |
Aaron Kwok Tony Leung Chow Yun-fat Charlie Young Janice Man Eddie Peng Aarif Rahman Tony Yang Chang Kuo-chu Wu Yue Fan Zhibo Ma Yili Bibi Zhou |
| Music by | Peter Kam |
| Cinematography | Jason Kwan |
| Edited by | Jordan Goldman Ron Chan |
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Production
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Irresistible Films
Edko Films EDKO (Beijing) Distribution Shanghai Tencent Penguin Pictures China Film Co. Homeland Pictures |
| Distributed by | Edko Films |
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Release date
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Running time
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110 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong China |
| Language |
Cantonese English |
| Box office | US$115 million |
Cold War 2 is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese crime thriller film written and directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. The film is a sequel to the 2012 box office hit, Cold War, and stars returning cast members Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng, Aarif Rahman, Ma Yili and Alex Tsui, joined by new cast members Chow Yun-fat, Janice Man, Tony Yang and Bibi Zhou. Cold War 2 was released on 8 July 2016 in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D.
The Hong Kong Police Force holds a funeral for two superintendents killed during the previous film. Shortly after, the commissioner Sean Lau (Aaron Kwok) receives a call from one of the culprits behind the theft of the police van. He is told that his wife has been kidnapped and that he must release Joe Lee (Eddie Peng) for her to survive. Lau overrides standard procedure to transfer Joe out of prison, and is told by the kidnapper to bring Joe to the metro station. There, Joe is able to escape with the aid of several accomplices, one of whom sets off a bomb. The culprits leave Lau's wife alive at the station.
Lau's actions are criticized by the media and by numerous politicians, leading to a public inquiry. Fearing that the police have been infiltrated, Lau privately requests Billy Cheung (Aarif Rahman), an ICAC agent, to form a separate squad independent of the police, so they can track down the culprits. Meanwhile, MB Lee (Tony Leung Ka-fai), a deputy police commissioner who is about to retire, who is also the father of Joe, is confronted by his fugitive son along with Peter Choi (Chang Kuo-chu), a former commissioner who is now manipulating politics behind the scenes. Choi is revealed as the mastermind behind the troubles of the previous film, and his current goal is to remove Lau, who is not a member of his ring, and to place his own followers into positions of power during the next election. Choi has formed a militant band consisting of former police officers who were expelled or faked their own deaths. He promises Lee not only the position of commissioner, but also of security secretary later on, upon which Lee gives into temptation.
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