I have just completed a 25-episode series in the last weekend and within a few days I have completed yet another series, and it has more number of episodes; 30. I started on this new series on Tuesday and I finished it today. It took me only 5 days and an average of 6 episodes a day (one episode is about 40 minutes long). This is easily done in this period when everyone is stuck at home most of the time. And thank goodness, finally, I am no longer that occupied with work after 2 months busy handling my job assignments. Hence, I have more free time to binge-watch.
The series is called ‘Flying Tiger 2’ (飞虎之雷霆极战). It is a sequel to the original series released in 2018. I didn’t watch the first one but it doesn’t matter as the story in this sequel is independent and not related to the former. The story revolves on a special police unit formed to tackle unprecedented or special cases. The series starred Michael Miu, Bosco Wong, Ron Ng, Kenneth Ma, Oscar Leung, Yoyo Mung, Dominic Lam, Kelly Cheung, Joel Chan, Lee Pace, etc.
The whole drama only centers on one large terrorism case involving multiple nations. Storyline do gets a bit complicated near the end with many subplots surfacing and more connections between many characters. I couldn’t follow through in details but I do feel that is necessary to add more depth and a little more complexity to the story since the whole 30-episode only revolves on one case. On the other hand, I’m also impressed with quite a number of exhilarating action scenes; properly executed chasing and gunfight scenes.
It’s also nice to see 3 of the former 5 very popular young TVB actors back in 2000s collaborating again. Kenneth, Bosco and Ron are here (missing ones are Raymond Lam and Sammul Chan…Raymond did sing the ending theme song for the series though). It’s near impossible to get all 5 of them back to collaborate in one series/project but at least now we get to see 3 of them in one series. They are all in their 40s already, and their acting have certainly improve and mature over the years. Michael Miu is now typecast in senior police officer roles for many years. He is perfectly fine for such roles (and he matches such roles very well too) as his bland acting is sufficient to carry on these type of characters which are usually only needed to be very composed, firm and deliver lines in serious manner. Yoyo Mung…I couldn’t see a single tear from her eyes when she acted in those emotional scenes (when both of her parents died). That explains very much on her acting.
The male cast members are great but the female lineups are lacklustre. I knew those female characters are not central to the story but at least look for a slightly more famous actresses to pair up with the boys. Overall, this series is pretty good. A big-budget production (involves also a Hollywood actor in a major supporting role…a rare occasion for Hong Kong series) that has decent story, action scenes and good performance and chemistry by the male leads. Out of 10 points, I rate ‘Flying Tiger 2’ a total of 7.8.
(Images in this post are from various online sources)