Shock Wave 2

Shock Wave 2 follows Poon Shing Fung, a Hong Kong bomb disposal officer whose life is upended by injuries suffered in the line of duty. He turns away from the police, and when a string of bombings strikes the city, he is found unconscious at one of the scenes. Suffering from memory loss and holding only fragments of his past, he becomes a suspect and must work out what happened and who he is.

Herman Yau directs and co-writes with Erica Li and Eric Lee. The film is the ninth of the sixteen features he has directed, arriving between The White Storm 2: Drug Lords and Moscow Mission. Andy Lau stars as Poon and also produces alongside Alvin Lam; the cast includes Lau Ching-wan, Ni Ni, Tse Kwan-Ho, Ron Ng and Kenny Wong Tak-Ban, with 196 credited performers in all. It was made for a budget of 40 million US dollars and took 226 million US dollars worldwide, a return that far outstrips its cost.

The film is rated 6.5 on IMDb from around three thousand three hundred votes and 7.1 on TMDB from about one hundred eighty votes, while a critics' score of 7.2 from thirteen reviews places it slightly above the audience figures.