This sequel film is the perfect example of when companies ruin good films by forcing a terrible sequel that tries to wedge itself inbetween the stories of the first film. They basically ruined the ending they originally had & to top it off they swapped out Ryu Jun-Yeol who played Seo Young Rak in the 1st film & god knows why but the new guy playing him decided to take the character into a different direction contradicting his original character. So in the 1st film u had this stoic, cold, calculating, almost like hes emotionless type of Villain n yet able to still portray himself looking innocent & trustable... & now in the 2nd film you got the new guy acting as if hes now got all these emotional expressions suddenly & worst of all hes now showing fear smh. In the first film u would never see fear in the 1st actors face because he knew he was playing a sociopathic emotionless Villain, now we got a watered down sappy version of him lol. They really fumbled this one... but even with so much criticism n bad things about the film you could always still find some good things; such as the guy playing Brian is now putting in another top notch performance to portray a very injured, psychotic villain. I mean every screen time he gets hes putting in the work to show every line he delivers that his character is experiencing searing n blistering pain & its such a good performance that it leaves u in such high praise of his talent to act.
Lastly you got the new villain Big Knife played by Han Hyo-Joo & she matches her predecessors energy & talent in portraying a narcissistic meth addict badass gangster. She channeled the passion & finesse of the last actor to play Jin Ha Rim (played by Ju Hyuk Kim) & they make such a perfect match for their respective roles. The new guy playing Jin Ha Rim did not pull it off well, he went from in 1st film being such a maniacal, jittery, spontaneosly crazy serial killer like druggie gangster to now in 2nd film some cool calm assasin like killer lol.
I would have rated this a 4/10 but the 2 villains performance at least held up well so 5/10.
