and Morgan Creek are not involved with this second film. Wesley Snipes reprised his role as Neil Shaw in a straight-to-DVD sequel released in Augby Sony Pictures Home Entertainment through Stage 6 Films. Sequels The Art of War II: Betrayal (2008) The Art of War went on to gross $40.4 million worldwide, failing to bring back its $60 million budget. The film opened at #2 behind Bring It On, earning $10,410,993 in its opening weekend in the United States. building, The Art of War is ultimately much less than the sum of its parts." Stephen Holden of The New York Times called it "ludicrous, impenetrable and headache-inducing". Emanuel Levy of Variety wrote, "Despite some effectively rousing set pieces, particularly in the long corridors of the U.N. The site's consensus says: "Excessively noisy and overly reliant on genre clichés, The Art of War wastes its star's charisma on a ridiculous, convoluted plot and poorly edited action sequences." Metacritic rated it 30/100 based on 23 reviews. Rotten Tomatoe, a review aggregator, reports that 16% of 80 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review the average rating is 3.9/10.
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TV reporter Erin Selby appears as a reporter. Jet Li was originally cast for the part eventually played by Wesley Snipes.
Shaw seeks out Julia Fang's (Matiko) help after reading a news article stating Shaw's innocence. Shaw kills the hitman, recovers the audio file, and secures weapons and equipment from Novak's hidden armory. Shaw regains consciousness and frees himself from captivity, only to find his last remaining team member, Jenna Novak (Liliana Komorowska) murdered by a Chinese hitman. In the middle of a prison transfer, FBI agent Frank Capella's (Chaykin) van is disabled by a roadside bomb, and an unconscious Shaw is captured by Triad members to be framed of the murder and disposed of. During the pursuit, Shaw's teammate Robert Bly (Biehn) corners the gunman, but perishes, and Shaw is arrested by the NYPD.
During the trade agreement banquet, Wu is gunned down, Chan is shot in the arm, and Shaw pursues a masked gunman. Shaw's boss, Eleanor Hooks (Archer) suspects Chinese ambassador Wu's (Hong) connection with the Chinese Triad, and assigns Shaw to plant a bug on Wu during a banquet held by Chan.
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Six months later, a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong turns up on the New York docks on the week as China's trade agreement with the U.S. Shortly after being discovered, Shaw fights his way out of the party, and suffers a gunshot wound to his shoulder during extraction.
aid money, in exchange for continuing negotiations with South Korea. In Hong Kong, Shaw infiltrates a Chinese New Year party held by Chinese business mogul David Chan (Tagawa) and covertly hacks an office laptop of a North Korean Defense Minister, and blackmails him with the misappropriation of U.N. Neil Shaw (Snipes) is an operative for the United Nations's covert SAD, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. 4.2 The Art of War III: Retribution (2009).