Wolf Warrior 2

Wolf Warrior 2 (Chinese: 战狼2) is a 2017 Chinese action film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Wu Jing, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Celina Jade, Frank Grillo, Hans Zhang, and Wu Gang. The film is a sequel to 2015's Wolf Warrior. It was released in China on 27 July 2017.[2][7] The film tells a story of a loose cannon Chinese soldier named Leng Feng who takes on special missions around the world. In this sequel, he finds himself in an African country protecting medical aid workers from local rebels and vicious arms dealers.

Wolf Warrior 2
Theatrical release poster
Traditional戰狼2
Simplified战狼2
MandarinZhàn Láng 2
LiterallyWar Wolf 2
Directed byWu Jing
Produced by
Written byWu Jing
Dong Qun
Liu Yi
StarringWu Jing
Celina Jade
Frank Grillo
Hans Zhang
Wu Gang
Music byJoseph Trapanese
CinematographyPeter Ngor
Edited byKa-Fai Cheung
Production
companies
Deng Feng International Media
China Film Group
Bona Films
Beijing Culture[2]
Release date
  • 27 July 2017 (2017-07-27) (China)
Running time
121 minutes[3]
CountryChina
Language
  • Mandarin
  • English
BudgetCN¥200 million
(US$30.1 million)[4]
Box officeCN¥5.68 billion
(US$874 million)[5][6]

In China, Wolf Warrior 2 received general praise for its patriotic plot, special effects, action sequences and the cast's performances. It was a massive commercial success and has become the highest-grossing Chinese film ever released. The film broke numerous box office records, including the biggest single-day gross for a Chinese film as well as the fastest film to cross RMB 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion and 5 billion box office marks. It also became the fastest film to surpass US$500 million and the first film to gross more than US$600 million at the Chinese box office.[8] At a total domestic gross of CN¥5.68 billion (US$854 million),[5][6] it is the third highest-grossing film of all-time in a single market behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($936.7 million in North America) and Avengers: Endgame (858.4 million in North America), and has exceeded North America's totals from Avatar ($760 million), Black Panther ($700 million), and Titanic ($659 million).[9][10][11] The film was the seventh highest-grossing film of 2017 at US$874 million, making it the 54th highest grossing film worldwide.[5][12][6] It is the first and only Chinese film ever to be included in the list of 100 all-time highest-grossing films worldwide,[13][12] making it the highest-grossing non-English film of all time.[14] It was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards.[15]

Plot

After the events of Wolf Warrior, Leng Feng and members of his special-ops team bring his comrade's remains back to his home town and his comrade's family for his funeral, only to see it on the verge of being torn down completely. A real estate company is pulling down his house and that of his comrade's family during the funeral. The boss of the real estate company confronts them with a gun and sneers at them for presenting the remains to the family, only for the boss to be kicked to the ground. The boss calls on his henchmen to attack them but they are all swiftly disabled by Feng and the other soldiers. Police arrive shortly after and ask Feng to put down the gun he confiscated from the boss. The boss gets back up and boasts that he will "make the family wish they were dead", enraging Feng to a point that he kicks the boss in the stomach, sending him crashing onto the windshield of a police car and killing him. Feng is sent to a military prison for two years and discharged from the Chinese army.

After release from prison, Feng leaves for Africa, planning to wander for the rest of his life. While serving as a mercenary providing security on a freighter delivering relief supplies to Africa, he foils an attempted hijacking by Somalian pirates by defeating them in hand-to-hand combat underwater. The freighter arrives safely at its destination. For three years, Feng has been carrying a bullet which he found, a clue to the kidnapping of his fiancée, Lieutenant Colonel Long Xiaoyun, that happened while she was on a mission.

Feng and some locals are partying on a beach one day when they are attacked by rebel forces aiming to overthrow the government of the African nation. Shortly after the arrival of the Rebels and mercenaries who overrun the government troops, the Chinese fleet arrives to evacuate Chinese nationals caught up in the civil war. While on board, a Chinese shop owner that he helped rescue tells him that the bullet he is carrying belongs to European mercenaries who are helping the rebels. After overhearing guards talking about needing someone to rescue workers at a factory and a VIP, Dr. Chen, who is developing the vaccine for Lamanla, a deadly endemic disease, Feng volunteers. However, he is on his own as no other personnel can follow him while they are on foreign soil without permission from the Chinese military's higher authorities. He travels to the hospital, 60 kilometres away from the dock and enters its building just as Dr Chen is accidentally killed by the mercenaries led by Big Daddy, a ruthless American leader of mercenaries called the Dyon Corps. With his dying breaths, Dr Chen tells him to take his daughter, an African girl named Pasha. Feng and Pasha, along with a female volunteer doctor Rachel Smith, escape the grip of the mercenaries. While escaping, he cuts his hand in a pile of Lamanla infected bodies but shakes it off and moves on. They continue their mission of saving the Chinese as Feng also goes to save his godson's mother, who's working in the Hanbound factory.

Upon arriving at the Hanbound factory, Feng is confronted by security and the factory's owner's son, Zhou Yifan, a cocky fuerdai who is also an army fanatic. Big Daddy's mercenaries attack the factory to capture Pasha, thinking she is the one who has the cure for Lamanla. At the factory, Feng tells everyone that the Chinese fleet will be sending a helicopter to rescue them. The women and children will evacuate via helicopter and everyone else will walk to the fleet. Feng, with his old pal and Yifan protect the factory crew members from the red scarf members and deadly mercenaries. Feng is about to be overrun when Big Daddy, the other mercenaries and rebels are ordered to fall back. The rebel leader tells Big Daddy that no Chinese can die because he needs China when he is in power, since China is part of the United Nations Security Council. Big Daddy kills him and takes over as leader. He orders everyone to go back to the factory to retrieve Pasha and kill Feng. In the factory, Feng chooses to leave as the factory workers learn of his infection with Lamanla. He is injected with a serum for the virus and learns from Rachel that Dr Chen has manufactured a cure using infected patients that survived and developed immunity; Pasha, who is in fact one of Dr. Chen's patients rather than his daughter, is the only surviving subject with immunity.

Big Daddy and the others arrive at the factory to capture Pasha and kill Feng. They round up the workers and wait for the Chinese helicopter to arrive. Feng arrives with Rachel and Pasha to rescue everyone trapped in the factory. The workers are saved, and the helicopter arrives. Pasha and Rachel leave via helicopter, but it is shot down. The battle continues with everyone taking cover and Feng and his allies fighting hordes of Dyon Corps mercenaries and rebels. Seeing the massive casualties taking place, the Chinese fleet fire missiles, taking out the tanks. Meanwhile, in the battle while confronting Big Daddy, Feng learns that the bullet which killed Xiaoyun belonged to Big Daddy and, driven by rage over her death, kills Big Daddy in a brutal fight and saves all the crew members by taking them to the UN camps.

In the mid-credits scene, Feng is allowed by his commander to return to his military squadron, but is shown a video that Xiaoyun is still alive.

Cast
Wu Jing and Celina Jade on the set of Wolf Warrior 2
  • Wu Jing[2] as Leng Feng, a former Chinese special forces soldier.
  • Celina Jade[2] as Dr. Rachel Prescott Smith, a doctor who assists in Africa.
  • Frank Grillo[2] as Big Daddy, head of a group of mercenaries called Dyon Corps.
  • Hans Zhang[2] as Zhuo Yifan, a fuerdai and army fan. His father owns a factory in Africa and he is literally the boss.
  • Wu Gang as He Jianguo, a retired scout who serves as a security supervisor of a Chinese factory in Africa.
  • Yu Nan as Lieutenant Colonel Long Xiaoyun (guest appearance)
  • Yu Qian as Qian Bida, a profiteer who gets caught in a rebel crossfire battle in an African port town.
  • Ding Haifeng as captain in the People's Liberation Army Navy.
  • Shi Zhaoqi as Shi Qingsong
  • Chunyu Shanshan as Lin Zhixiong
  • Oleg Prudius[16] as Great Bear, a Russian Dyon Corps mercenary who serves as muscle and a heavy machine gunner.
  • Heidi Moneymaker as Athena, a sharpshooter and most agile of the Dyon Corps mercenaries.
  • Aaron Ly as Ghost, the driver and the most silent of the Dyon Corps mercenaries.
  • Aaron Toney as Roach, a Dyon Corps mercenary and Big Daddy's second in command.

Production

Background

The Wolf Warrior 2 continues the storyline of Wolf Warrior. However, as the plot went on, the background of the story is transferred from the Chinese border to the overseas, which helps develop international perspectives.[17] The film was shot on locations in Africa and China between June 2016 and November 2016.[2] For the film's African scenes, it mostly was shot on location in Soweto and Alexandria.[18] The tank battle was filmed in Zhaochuan Ironworks (坤源集团赵川铁厂), Zhaochuan Town of Xuanhua District, Zhangjiakou city, in Hebei province.[19]

A promotional poster showed Leng Feng giving the middle finger with the slogan "Anyone who offends China, no matter how remote, must be exterminated."[20]

Pre-production

On 16 April 2013, the first draft of Wolf Warrior 2 was completed. In fact, Wu Jing began to write the script as early as four years ago.[21]

Filming

On 19 June 2016, Wolf Warrior 2 started up in Beijing. Wu Jing spent six months preparing for start up this film.[22]

On 23 August 2016, there was one scene that Wu Jing drove a tank alone, rushed through six tanks and crushed a car in the end. In just ten seconds, the car turned into a pile of scrap iron. This is the first time that a domestic actor personally drove a tank into and crushed a car. A car is approximately one tons while a tank is around thirty-five tons.[22]

On 2 November 2016, Wolf Warrior 2 was completed after five months of filming.[22]

Release

The film was released in China on 27 July 2017 in MX4D, 4DX, 3D and China Film Giant Screen.[7] An IMAX version was released on 18 August 2017 and has gone out in IMAX 2D.[23] The film was released in Sri Lanka through Madhu Entertainment with English subtitles.[24] It was also released in South Africa with English Subtitles through Ster-Kinekor on 10 November 2017.[25]

Reception

Box office

Wolf Warrior 2 became a huge commercial success at the Chinese box office, and also in countries such as Australia and Malaysia where there were reports of sold out tickets in Chinese language cinemas.[26][27][28] The film was noted for showing incredible staying power at the box office despite being a tent pole movie, earning seven times its prequel[29] and five times distributors' initial estimates.[30] It topped the international box office for all major films on three separate occasions – in its first three weekends.[31][32][33][34] Its unprecedented success has been attributed to various reasons such as its patriotic subject, nationalistic themes, and its bona-fide action sequences and stunts that have been said to be a breakthrough for Chinese films. The film was also released during the annual summer "blackout period" in which foreign movies are not released, and it only had to compete with other domestic movies.[35][36] It became the highest-grossing film in China after just twelve days of release, overtaking The Mermaid which held the record for eighteen months. However, the records that the film broke were not just limited to its domestic market. It also became the biggest film released in a single territory in 2017, breaking Beauty and the Beast's record of US$504 million and the biggest summer release of the year in a single territory, ahead of Wonder Woman (US$400 million).[23] As a result, it became the tenth film to earn over US$500 million in a single territory and the sixth film to make over US$600 million, and the third film to pass the US$700 million threshold following Avatar and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.[37] It is also the fastest film to reach the CN¥2 billion , CN¥3 billion , CN¥4 billion and CN¥5 billion marks in China, doing so on its eighth, eleventh, seventeenth and twenty-third day respectively and became the first film to earn more than CN¥200 million (est. US$30 million) for twelve consecutive days globally (tied with Star Wars: The Force Awakens[38]). It has so far grossed a total of CN¥5 billion (US$716.5 million), which includes online ticketing fees, or around US$768.5 million with online surcharges[39][40][41][42] and is among the top 100 highest-grossing films of all time, unadjusted for inflation.[43][44] Due to the film's rising popularity and strong holds, analysts believe the film could end up making CN¥5 billion (US$747 million) to CN¥6 billion (US$895 million) at the Chinese box office alone.[23][45][46][47]

It opened in China on Thursday 27 July 2017, across 19,000+ screens, occupying 42% of the nation's total screens and earned CN¥212 million (US$31.4 million) on its opening day. Including previews, the total stood at CN¥313 million (US$46.4 million). After four hours of advanced screenings Thursday evening brought in CN¥100 million ($US14.9 million) in ticket sales, phenomenal word-of-mouth quickly grew and made its way to the social media.[48] This resulted in the film posting an opening of CN¥975 million (US$144.5 million) – or CN¥921 million (US$136.7 million) without online ticketing fees – through Sunday,[49][50] and US$125 million from Friday to Sunday. The latter figure is the biggest three day opening, ahead of The Mermaid which opened to US$122.3 million in the same number of days.[51] This made it the top film released that weekend worldwide, even ahead of Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.[32] As a result of excellent reviews and strong word-of-mouth, the film's Sunday take rose 15% from Saturday's, a rare feat in a country where the biggest films are usually the most front-loaded. Also, its Sunday-Monday drop was just 35% and the screen count rose from 19,000+ to 24,000 (52%).[50]

On Monday, it made CN¥279 million (US$41.5 million), a fall of just 35% from its Sunday take and registered the biggest Monday ever in a single territory ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (US$40.1 million). This pushed the film past the CN¥1 billion threshold with a total of CN¥1.265 billion (US$187.8 million).[52][53] This was followed by the biggest Tuesday with CN¥282 million (US$42 milliin), also ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (US$37 million)[54][55] and the fifth biggest Wednesday with CN¥278 million (US$41.4 million).[56][57] By Thursday, the film had earned past CN¥2 billion , the fastest film to do so in the least amount of time.[58]

In just ten days, the film grossed CN¥2.73 billion (US$406 million) to become the biggest release of 2017 there, surpassing The Fate of the Furious (CN¥2.6 billion ) and the second highest-grossing film ever, behind only The Mermaid (CN¥3.39 billion ).[51] The film's demand was so strong that it made more in its second weekend than the first. Earning a total of CN¥1.092 billion (US$162.2 million), an increase of 30% from the previous weekend, it also set a new record for the biggest ever second weekend in a single territory, surpassing the previous record holder Star Wars: The Force Awakens (US$149 million). The 30% weekend-to-weekend hike is among the top ten smallest second weekend drop, and the smallest for a non-Hollywood production. The same weekend it passed the CN¥3 billion threshold with a total of CN¥3.159 billion (US$470.4 million) becoming the second Chinese film to reach the mark after The Mermaid.[59][60][61][62] On 7 August 2017, it became the biggest ever Chinese film released just after twelve days of release. Similarly, The Mermaid overtook Monster Hunt in February 2016 after twelve days.[23] The film began to shed a considerable number of theatres by its third weekend mainly to make room for new releases such as Guilty of Mind, The Adventurers and Legend of the Naga Pearls,[40] resulting in the film falling by 49% earning another CN¥523 million (US$78.5 million), though still maintaining the top spot.[41] Twenty five days after the film's release, it surpassed Avatar to become the second highest-grossing film in a single-territory and is behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It topped the box office charts in China for four consecutive weekends,[63][64] or a record breaking thirty consecutive days. It was eventually overtaken by French film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets on its thirty-first day. At that time, Valerian played 78,000 times while Wolf Warrior 2 was still screened 32,500 times.[65][66] The film sold 159 million tickets at the Chinese box office.[67][68]

Critical response

In China, Wolf Warrior 2 received praise for its patriotic plot, special effects, action sequences and the cast's performances.[69] On Douban, the film scored 7.6 versus the previous film's 6.8.; on Mtime, it scored 7.5 versus 7.[51][70] Film critic Zhang Chuan argues that "the movie is a decent Chinese film in visual effects, story telling, and action scenes", and that it is "comparable to its Hollywood counterparts" in terms of these aspects.[71] Wenhui Daily considered the film to be a milestone in the history of Chinese cinema with "stories, connotations, and structures".[72] Due to its patriotic themes and positive portrayal of the Chinese military, it also received high praise from China's state-owned and military-affiliated media. However, the reception is not uniformly positive.[73] Yin Shanshan, a lecturer at the Central Academy of Drama, a top drama school in China, criticized the film as excessively violent and "psychopathic, worthless, without values or logic" on her Sina Weibo account.[74][75][76]

Internationally, the film received more mixed responses. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 69% approval rating based on 13 reviews, with a rating average of 5.79/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 44 out of 100, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Much of the negative criticism was directed towards the plot and screenplay, alleging similarities to Blood Diamond, Tears of the Sun, and Rambo: First Blood Part II. In reviewing the film, The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The star's charisma is enhanced by his athletic prowess, which makes the hand-to-hand combat particularly arresting, especially a brutal brawl between him and Grillo that provides a fitting climax. The breathless pacing thankfully doesn't allow much time for viewers to ponder the plot holes or worry about character development, although the two-hour running time results in overkill fatigue."[77] Stanley Rosen, a professor at the University of Southern California who studies Chinese society and cinema, said to New York Times, "It's a very individualist personal quest, which is much more of a Hollywood thing. They’re definitely downplaying the Communist Party in favor of patriotism and defending Chinese people and Chinese interests all over the world."[78] Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com severely criticized the film for "its characters' sense of patriotism is built on the back of racist assumptions that would, in a European or American narrative, be rightfully criticized for being part of an ugly 'white savior' power fantasy", and stating that the film "lectures you, pummels you, then expects you to cheer."[79]

Rob Hunter of the Film School Rejects, in his positive review of the film, wrote: "Wolf Warrior 2 still suffers some of the same issues that dogged the first film, but the improvements elsewhere make for a noticeably better and more entertaining action movie. It's a fun movie blending lots of action, some humor, and "feelings" for friends and family, and if the next one improves at this same rate Wolf Warrior 3 is going to be something even more special."[80] In a less enthusiastic review, Noel Murray of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the "blandly generic" film features digital effects that "look fake," but praised its stunts and pointed out "it's fascinating to see a film so closely mimic big-budget Hollywood war pictures, but from an opposing socio-political perspective."[81] The Guardian described the movie as "the undisputed torchbearer for this new generation of [Chinese] patriotic action dramas."[82]

Evan Osnos points out how "Wolf Warrior II captures a new, muscular iteration of China’s self-narrative, much as Rambo’s heroics expressed the swagger of the Reagan era."[83] Jonathan Papish from China Film Insider described the tone of Chinese nationalism in the movie as being “definitely a product of Xi’s reign and the idea of [China's] rejuvenation”.[82]

Accolades
Awards Category Recipient Result Ref.
12th Asian Film Awards2017 Highest-Grossing Asian Film AwardN/AWon[84]
37th Hong Kong Film AwardsBest Film from Mainland and TaiwanN/ANominated[85]
9th China Film Director's Guild Awards Best Film N/A Nominated [86]
Best Director Wu Jing Nominated
Best Actor Shortlisted
44th Saturn Awards Best International Film N/A Nominated [87]
23rd Huading Awards Best Film N/A Nominated [88]
Best Director Wu Jing Won
Best Actor Won
Best Supporting Actor Wu Gang Won
Best Screenwriter Wu Jing, Liu Yi, Dong Qun Nominated
Best Producer Guan Hailong, Zhang Miao Won
34th Hundred Flowers Awards Best Picture Wolf Warrior 2 Nominated [89][90]
Best Director Wu Jing Nominated
Best Writing Wu Jing, Dong Qun, Liu Yi Nominated
Best Actor Wu Jing Won
Best Supporting Actor Wu Gang Nominated
Hans Zhang Nominated

Sequel

A sequel, Wolf Warrior 3 (Chinese: 战狼3), has been confirmed at the end of the mid-credits scene of Wolf Warrior 2. This was later confirmed by Wu Jing.[91]

Influence

Since its release the movie has been used for nationalist sentiments, most prominently by associating a group of Chinese diplomats and their approach as Wolf Warrior Diplomats by Chinese media.[92][93]

See also

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