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Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch

Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch (追龙II：贼王) is a 2019 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Wong Jing and Jason Kwan, based on the 1990s kidnapping spree of the criminal Cheung Tze-keung. Tony Leung Ka-fai plays Logan Long, a gang leader who abducts the adult children of Hong Kong's wealthy elite, while Louis Koo plays Sky He, an undercover police officer and explosives expert sent to infiltrate the gang. The film was released on June 7, 2019, with a running time of 100 minutes.¹

Key fact	Detail
Original title	追龙II：贼王 (Chui lung II: Chak wong)¹^•²
Directors / writers	Wong Jing and Jason Kwan; written by Kin-Hung Chan, Koon-Nam Lui, and Wong Jing¹^•³
Release	June 7, 2019; 100 minutes; Cantonese and Mandarin; Not Rated¹
Main cast	Tony Leung Ka-fai (Logan Long), Louis Koo (Sky He), Lam Ka-tung (Doc), Simon Yam (Inspector Lee), Sabrina Qiu, Michael Wong²^•³
Real-life basis	The kidnappings of Hong Kong tycoons' family members by Cheung Tze-keung, known as the "Big Spender", in the 1990s⁴
Setting	Pre-handover Hong Kong and Macau in 1996⁵
Reception	78% Tomatometer (9 reviews) and 56% Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes; 5.9/10 on IMDb from 880 votes; US gross $194.6K⁶^•²

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Story and characters

The plot follows Logan Long (Tony Leung Ka-fai), a kidnapper who took advantage of the legal uncertainty in the years before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to run a kidnapping ring targeting the city's elite for large ransoms, often using improvised bombs to threaten his victims.⁷ Because of a lack of evidence, Long walks free despite being known to the police, allowing him to continue his crimes.⁸

Inspector Lee (Simon Yam) sends Sky He (Louis Koo), a reluctant undercover officer with explosives expertise, into Long's gang after learning that the kidnapper needs a new bomb-maker.⁷ Sky's infiltration is helped by Doc (Lam Ka-tung), Long's second-in-command, who appears to be playing both sides.⁷ The gang's next target is the casino tycoon Stanford Ho (Michael Wong), the richest man in Hong Kong, while Long suspects there is a mole in his team.⁷ Other gang members include Long's spoiled younger brother Farrell (Ye Xiangming) and his girlfriend and gang seductress Bunny (Sabrina Qiu).⁴

The film builds toward a final half-hour combining a bomb-defusing sequence, a mansion shootout, and a highway car chase.⁷ In the ending, Sky leads Long across the border into mainland China, where mainland police arrest him; the film closes with Long being taken from his prison cell and executed by a firing squad.⁵^•⁴

Relationship to Chasing the Dragon (2017)

Despite its title, the film is a sequel in name only. It shares no stars, characters, or storyline with the 2017 film Chasing the Dragon, which starred Donnie Yen and Andy Lau in a 1960s-set story about the drug lord Crippled Ho; the two films are connected only by their directors, their true-crime subject matter, and a few clips and quotes at the beginning of the sequel.⁵^•⁹^•⁴ The sequel opens with clips from the first film, tweaked to look like archival footage, with a voice-over likening the drug lord of the first film to the kidnapper Logan Long.¹⁰ Asian Film Strike describes the film as the second entry in Wong Jing's planned Chasing the Dragon trilogy of films based on real-life Hong Kong crimes.⁷

Real-life basis and political reading

The film is based on Cheung Tze-keung, a Hong Kong criminal famous for a lavish lifestyle funded by ransoms from kidnapping family members of local tycoons; he was most known for kidnapping the son of Hong Kong's wealthiest man. A version of him had earlier been portrayed by Jordan Chan Siu-chun in the 2016 film Trivisa.⁴^•¹¹ Reviewers noted that the filmmakers took substantial dramatic liberties with the actual events.⁸^•⁷

Political undertones. Cinema Escapist's review reads the film as a statement on Hong Kong–mainland relations: the Hong Kong police run the operation, but mainland police provide the intelligence that places Sky in Long's inner circle, and it is mainland police who arrest Long, who is then executed on the mainland. The reviewer argued this dynamic would please mainland audiences while provoking localist sentiment in Hong Kong, particularly amid the then-controversial extradition bill.⁴ Seattle Screen Scene similarly observed that the ending, in which the fugitive is delivered to the mainland military, could be read as a paean to mainland efficiency.⁵ Unlike the first film, which cast its criminal protagonist as a local hero and blamed crime on British colonial rule, the sequel offers little sympathy for Logan Long, portraying him as ostentatious, selfish, and cold-blooded.⁴

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 78% Tomatometer from 9 reviews and a 56% Popcornmeter from fewer than 50 ratings.⁶ Critics were mixed. Richard Kuipers of Variety wrote that for shootouts, explosions, and tough talk, the film "has plenty to please action fans"; Elizabeth Kerr of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a goofier, more focused step up from its predecessor"; and Cary Darling of the Houston Chronicle gave it 2.5 out of 5, calling it "an efficiently made and routine police action-drama".⁶ Edmund Lee of the South China Morning Post gave it 2.5 out of 5, calling it a perfunctory thriller that would disappoint anyone who valued the care of the first film.¹¹ On IMDb the film rates 5.9 out of 10 from 880 votes.² Its United States gross was $194.6K.⁶

Reviewers frequently singled out Tony Leung Ka-fai's performance as the film's strongest element. John Tan of The New Paper wrote that Leung's Logan "brings an admirable amount of camp, making him the most entertaining character in the film", and Asian Film Strike described the performance as "pure charisma, a whirlwind of cackling excess and bug-eyed mischief".⁶^•⁷

Production and distribution

The film was produced by Wong Jing, with production companies Bona Film Group and Sil-Metropole Organisation, and was distributed internationally by Well Go USA.⁶ It received two nominations, at the Guangzhou Student Film Festival and the Movie Heroes Awards in China.³

References

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026