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From Vegas to Macau II (赌城风云2)

From Vegas to Macau II (赌城风云II; also released in mainland China as The Man From Macau II, 澳门风云2) is a 2015 Hong Kong action comedy film directed and written by Wong Jing, starring Chow Yun-fat, Nick Cheung, Carina Lau, Shawn Yue, Angela Wang, and Michelle Hu. It is the sequel to From Vegas to Macau (2014) and was produced as a Hong Kong-China co-production for the Lunar New Year holiday market.1

Key factDetail
Release19 February 2015 (Hong Kong and mainland China); Taiwan release 26 February 20152 • 3
Director and writerWong Jing; produced by Andrew Lau1
Running time and rating110 minutes; Category IIB in Hong Kong; action/comedy2
Main castChow Yun-fat, Nick Cheung, Carina Lau, Shawn Yue, Angela Wang, Michelle Hu1
Hong Kong box officeHK$28,407,293 (19 February to 1 April 2015)4
Mainland titleThe Man From Macau II (澳门风云2), a title chosen to soften the gambling associations5
LanguagesCantonese and Mandarin6

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Plot

After helping Interpol destroy the international money-laundering syndicate DOA in the first film, the Macau gambler Ken, known as "Magic Hands" (Chow Yun-fat), has retired to enjoy life. DOA's chief accountant Mark (Nick Cheung) steals 15 billion US dollars from the syndicate's accounts and flees to Thailand with his young daughter Yan (Angela Wang). Ken's protégé Vincent (Shawn Yue) has joined Interpol and asks his master to help arrest DOA's real mastermind, Ms. Aoi (Jin Qiaoqiao). The two travel to Thailand to find Mark and bring him in as a state witness, while Aoi sends killers after both Mark and Ken, who survives an attack on his yacht and agrees to cooperate with the police.7 • 8

In Bangkok, an Interpol mole complicates the pursuit. Ken, Mark, and Yan slip their pursuers, become entangled with Thai gangsters, and reunite with Ken's old flame Molly (Carina Lau) before returning to Macau for a final showdown aboard DOA's secret airborne casino, the Dragon's Palace, housed in an A380 aircraft.1 • 9

Production and cast

Wong Jing wrote and directed the film, with Andrew Lau as producer and cinematographer alongside Cho Man-keung; the score is by Chan Kwong-wing and Chen Yu-peng, and the action direction is by Lee Tat-chiu.1 Production companies included Mega-Vision Project Workshop, Bona Film Group, Sun Entertainment Culture, Shaw Brothers Pictures, and Media Asia Film Production.1 The mainland release was supervised by Liu Weiqiang (Andrew Lau) and co-credited to Wong Jing and Zhang Min as directors.10

The sequel replaced the first film's Nicholas Tse, Chapman To, and Jing Tian with Nick Cheung and Carina Lau, with Shawn Yue joining as Ken's godson. Andy Lau appears as Michael "Little Knife" Chan, his character from the God of Gamblers films, and David Chiang, Kimmy Tong, Michelle Hu, and Yuan Quan fill supporting roles.1 • 6 Much of the action moves from Macau to Thailand, with location shooting in Bangkok's waterways and markets, and the film adds a shape-shifting robot butler named Stupid Qiang to the cast of comic devices.1 • 11

Release and box office

The film opened in Hong Kong and mainland China on 19 February 2015, timed for the Lunar New Year holiday, and ran in Hong Kong cinemas until 1 April 2015, earning HK$28,407,293.2 • 4 That total placed it second among Hong Kong films released in the first half of 2015, behind Little Big Master.4 In Taiwan it opened on 26 February 2015.3 As with its predecessor, the mainland release used the title The Man From Macau II and a Chinese title translating as "Storm in Macau II" to soften the gambling associations for Chinese regulators.5

Reception

James Marsh, a film critic writing for Screen Daily, judged the sequel a step down in quality from the first film, saying its loosely strung set pieces and colloquial humor would limit its international appeal even as the cast and locations suited the Lunar New Year audience.1 A Hong Kong review found it more watchable than the first installment, crediting the new pairing of Chow Yun-fat and Nick Cheung and the Thai location shooting, while noting that the story felt rushed and that the film lacked a commanding villain.11 On Douban, the film holds a user rating of 5.6 from about 180,000 voters, between the 5.8 of the first film and the 4.5 of From Vegas to Macau III (2016).12

References

  1. Film Review: 'From Vegas to Macau II', James Marsh, Screen Daily
  2. 香港電影業資料彙編 2015, Hong Kong Film Development Council
  3. 《賭城風雲II》主題曲〈財神到〉官方影片, 威視電影 (YouTube)
  4. 2015 年上半年度香港電影市道整體情況, 香港票房有限公司 / 香港影業協會
  5. Film Review: 'From Vegas to Macau II', The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo Entertainment
  6. From Vegas to Macau II, JustWatch
  7. 賭城風雲2, Disney+ (Taiwan)
  8. 《賭城風雲II》賀歲喜劇30秒預告 (YouTube)
  9. From Vegas to Macau II, Filmaffinity
  10. 澳门风云2, 百度百科
  11. 《賭城風雲2》觀後感, 有誌戲 (blog review)
  12. 王晶 - 赌神系列, 豆瓣电影

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

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