A non-related sequel to what wasn't the best production of his anyway, the Daniel Lee directed Jet Li vehicle still delivered some nifty Hong Kong sensibilities, much thanks to action director Yuen Woo-Ping. It is Tsui and Woo-Ping who continues to roll the ball in the English language re-thread. It's a different beast and it's a poorer beast. Taking an American favourite past time, in this case wrestling, and spicing it up with mutations and Hong Kong style wire-fu, Black Mask 2: City Of Masks could speak to an outrageousness Tsui Hark can bring at the best of times but the whole package is done without any finesse whatsoever. Are we supposed to be impressed by split screen dialogue and CGI created inner body turmoil? Not even the B-movie market audience should be and pushing aside all dopey humour, poor writing and characters for a moment, if the film would've delivered via Yuen Woo-Ping's contribution, some could've been forgiven. Turns out to be not the case though and not only is it uninspired, the choreography is highly indistinct considering whose name is on the credits. Then there's another theory to flash in regards to all this. Watching just the action scenes, concentrating fully on Woo-Ping's work will reveal some positives of the creative kind but then again, in a movie so covered up in silliness, your mind isn't switched off that easy despite when trying to concentrate on what possibly is the best aspect of the film. Black Mask 2: City Of Masks stars Andy On, Teresa Herrera (as the ditsy female sidekick), Tobin Bell (Saw), Jon Polito, Scott Adkins, Traci Lords, Terence Yin and the late Blacky Ko appears in a useless extended cameo. When dubbed into Cantonese for Hong Kong release, the film suddenly turned high profile with Andy Lau taking on the lead role, Cecilia Cheung as the little boy (!) and Jordan Chan voiced Scott Adkins Lang.