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Less a sequel - it has the nevertheless manager, writer and star as the first movie, but new characters and an unrelated storyline - than an exact more inventive follow-up. This era Ng plays a forceful gambler and congenital coward; unluckily payment him, his need to present a macho front wins him a starring role in a affray to shelter control of Mongkok from a marauding Mainland China crowd. His bathetic exploits (mostly with a gay prostitute friend getting in the way) are intercut with the lives of a cold-but-tender triad foot-soldier (Roy Cheung) and an out-of-his-depth cop (Cheung Tat-Ming) whose pregnant wife goes shopping in the wrong place at the wrong ever. Funny, emotive and really quite exciting, this was one of the best Hong Kong movies of its year.
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