Reviewed by morrison-dylan-fan 3 / 10 The second tycoon.įinding the first Casino Tycoon (1992-also reviewed) to be a breezy Action flick with tasty overripe Melodrama,I was pleased to find the second movie in the series on Netflix UK,leading to me visiting the casino again. I was bored with this movie, I kid you not. My rating of "Casino Tycoon II" is a mere, and somewhat generous, three out of ten stars. While this 1992 Hong Kong movie definitely had an impressive cast ensemble, with the likes of Andy Lau, Chingmy Yau and Shiu Hung Hui on the cast list, it just failed to be entertaining given the lousy and pointless storyline and script. And I actually can say that I have no intention of returning to watch the rest of "Casino Tycoon II". I had been tempted to turn it off a couple of times before then, but stuck with it, because this was Andy Lau after all.īut a storyline that was just mundane and pointless, and virtually nothing overly interesting or particularly action-filled happened in that time, so I was bored senseless. Actually I managed to endure 1 hour and 4 minutes of the ordeal, then I simply had enough and got up to turn off the movie. This movei from writer and director Jing Wong was boring, so very, very boring. Well, apparently not everything that Andy Lau stars in turns to gold. But still, it was a Hong Kong movie and had Andy Lau in the lead, so of course I ended up sitting down to watch it. Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 3 / 10 A swing and a miss in the Hong Kong cinema.įirst of all, I don't think I've actually seen the first movie here, so I had no idea what to expect from the 1992 movie "Casino Tycoon II" (aka "Do sing daai hang II: Ji juen mo dik"). Perhaps Wong Jing should have left the story alone after all. There's also a little too much melodrama with all the offspring and love interests too. But you don't really feel that Lau is ever in danger and the laidback approach works against it. The bad guys are clear cut and the various assassination attempts at well staged, with a gruesome attack in the second half being a highlight. You can't fault the actors, but the film doesn't have much in the way of drive or intrigue. It opens on a broadly comic note featuring Dennis Chan as a small-time scammer before moving into a slow-moving character piece. Wong Jing returns to write and direct, but I found this by far the weaker film of the two, lacking the momentum and grittiness that made the first film so good. Andy Lau is by now the boss of the casino and seems to hold infinite power, but various foes are stacked against him and his personal relationships continue to cause problems. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 5 / 10 A somewhat half-hearted sequelĬASINO TYCOON II is a direct sequel to the first movie, set some 20 years later and picking up some plot strands along the way.
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