Geoffrey Wong

Siguiendo inmediatamente los sucesos de la primera parte, el comisionado de policía Sean Lau recibe una llamada informándole del secuestro de su mujer, chantajeándole con que deje suelto a Joe Lee a cambio de la vida de su esposa.

Amidst the sweeping cityscape of cosmopolitan Hong Kong, an ex-Marine falls in love with a ballerina from China. Against mounting cultural and religious pressure, the two star-crossed lovers risk it all in pursuit of true love.

Champion competitive marksman Ken comes across an armored van robbery. He sees a policeman held hostage and shoots and kills four of the robbers. One of the robbers escapes and the policeman survives. The case is handled by Jerry Chang, whom Ken knows from having recently beaten him in a shooting match. Ken is found not guilty in court. Soon after, Ken is attacked by the escaped robber Pang Tao. Their confrontation reveals a very different background story and brings about a myriad of lies and traps and changes in relationships as Jerry and Ken try to outsmart each other.

Roast Pork joins the triad as a young man and ends up becoming a trusted lieutenant of boss Kerosene. However, his true passion is in his successful chain of restaurants, his loving wife, and his two children. So when Kerosene wants to promote his trusted right hand man to the top of the organization as a way to take on his financial debts, it's understandable why Roast Pork would want to refuse. Roast Pork comes up with an intricate scheme with his men that would take himself out of the running, but Kerosene's intervention causes it to fail. When all hopes appears to be lost, lifelong gangster Sparrow is released from jail after serving a 20-year sentence for committing a gang-related murder that earned him a guarantee for the leader spot. However, Sparrow has made his own plans to stay out of the gang, setting off a battle of wits between the two men.

Dos policías de la unidad de vigilancia descubren un plan de estafa financiera, destapando así todo un entramado de negocios sucios. Los policías no son inmunes a la tentación del dinero fácil, y no tardan en hacerse con las acciones gracias a la información privilegiada de que disponen.

La trilogía Infernal Affairs (readaptada por Martin Scorsese en "The Departed") volvió a demostrar que la ex-colonia británica, cuando quiere, sabe mover ficha y volver a convertirse en foco de atención mundial. Tras diversificar sus propuestas, Lau y Mak han vuelto a Hong Kong para rodar este elegante thriller urbano que retoma en buena parte las coordenadas de su éxito. Su título original, cuya traducción sería "Ciudad herida", se adapta como un guante a esta historia de personajes, amarga como el whisky con el que un detective intenta olvidar el suicidio de su novia, y triste como el pasado de un policía cuyo suegro ha sido brutalmente asesinado (información de cinemasitges.com). (FILMAFFINITY)