This sequel to the first film brings back that movie's central surviving character, as played by Chang Chen, for a new plot involving yet more conspiracy, battlefield showdowns, and disparate plotting. It's very much of the quality of the first film but it does feel just as overlong as that movie and too padded when it comes to supporting characters. The action doesn't have the edge of that of the first movie and the whole thing feels a little bit too drawn out and overreliant on CGI at times, but for a mainland Chinese movie it could be worse.
Review of Brotherhood of Blades 2
