![]() Wolf Warrior II (2017) – Leng Feng vs Big Daddy.“Wolf Warrior” was one of the biggest Chinese box office hits of 2015, but two years later, Leng Feng would return for China’s all-time biggest smash-hit, “Wolf Warrior II”. With an hour and a half of explosions and ballistic action preceding it, Wu and Scott give the audience a superb climax with a down-and-dirty knife fight leaving viewers eager to see them meet again for a rematch. However, nothing worthwhile in life ever comes without lots of effort, and Wu Jing would effectively create a Chinese Rambo in the form of the hero of “Wolf Warrior”, Chinese super-soldier Leng Feng. As the main creative force behind the film, Wu Jing poured his heart and soul into “Wolf Warrior” at every turn, something any viewer can easily infer (he spends the entire last third of the film soaked to the bone with his own sweat). However, considering that it would pit Wu Jing against the great Scott Adkins, it was certainly worth the wait. Wolf Warrior (2015) – Leng Feng vs Tom CatĢ015’s “Wolf Warrior” is, first and foremost, a military action movie with a side order of martial arts, which doesn’t really kick in until the end of the film.“Drunken Monkey” would also mark Lau’s final film as director until his passing in 2013, and between that and the immense insanity of this film’s closing battle, it makes Wu Jing’s one and only collaboration with Lau something we should all be that much more grateful for. Together, Lau and Wu Jing would deliver one awesome and downright crazy finale in the last fight of “Drunken Monkey”, doing some serious justice to the wildest kung fu discipline of in existence. ![]() However, the film would see him shoot right up to working with Hong Kong’s A-listers, with the film being directed by one of the greatest martial arts filmmakers of all time, Lau Kar-leung, who would also appear alongside Wu Jing in a comparatively less common appearance in front of the camera. Wu Jing was still relatively new to the big screen back in the early 2000’s, having mostly worked in television up to that point, with “Drunken Monkey” being his third movie. (“Tai Chi Boxer” sparked off both Wu Jing and Darren Shahlavi’s careers and after Darren’s untimely passing in 2015, holds as a great specimen of the tenacity and energy he gave each and every time he stepped in front of the camera.) ![]() ![]() Still, that pain proved worth it for the finale of “Tai Chi Boxer”, which is curiously reminiscent of the end fight of “ Once Upon A Time in China” in the way our hero and villain sail across the room on ropes in between exchanging blows on one another. Darren and Wu Jing give it their all and then some in the film’s dynamite final battle, which took sixteen days to film and saw Darren accidentally punching Wu Jing in the face due to the latter’s near-sightedness. However, what really makes it a true relic for martial arts fans was that it also marked the first big break for the late Darren Shahlavi, who had previously been working as a bouncer in Hong Kong before beginning his career in action films. A rough sequel to 1993’s “ Tai Chi Master”, it would also notably serve as Woo-ping’s final film as director until 2010’s “ True Legend”. Wu Jing kicked off his career with 1996’s “Tai Chi Boxer” under the direction of the legendary Yuen Woo-ping. ![]()
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