Fistful of Vengeance

**Fistful of Vengeance** is a *Wu Assassins* sequel film directed by Roel Reiné and written by Cameron Litvack, Jessica Chou and Yalun Tu. It was released by Netflix on February 17, 2022.

## Synopsis

Super-powered assassin Kai and friends Lu Xin and Tommy track a killer from San Francisco's Chinatown to Thailand to avenge the death of a loved one. But their hunt soon entangles them with old enemies, a mysterious billionaire and an ancient mystical force bent on taking over the world. Iko Uwais (The Raid) stars with Lewis Tan (Mortal Kombat), Lawrence Kao (Max Steel) and Pearl Thusi (Queen Sono) in this fast-and-furious martial arts action film.

## Plot

Kai, Tommy, and Lu Xin have traveled to Bangkok in search of Jenny's killer. A clue left behind has led them to the Marriott, where Tommy is talking to a young lady on the roof whilst Kai and Lu Xin survey the innards of the club, where they are attacked by Jiangshi, otherwise known as Chi vampires. Meanwhile, Tommy is headed off in a van with the woman from the roof. And around his neck, is a necklace with a stone that he found in Jenny's hand as her body laid dead on the floor. As it turns out, the young woman is also a Jiangshi, leading to a fight for control inside the van, which Tommy ultimately wins after stabbing the Jiangshi in the head with a knife. Back at the club, Kai and Lu Xin question the Jiangshi about Jenny's murder, but when he refuses to answer, Kai simply kills him with a move known as the "Assassin's strike." However, everyone in the club suddenly freezes, though this isn't Kai's doing. A mysterious man begins speaking through the party goers and tells them to meet him at the Silom Temple archeological site tomorrow at 8:00 AM.

The following day, Kai, Tommy, and Lu Xin meet with Biotech billionaire, William Pan, at Silom Temple. William introduces himself and tells them about the story of Pan Gu, the first man who shaped the universe from the great nothingness, and made the heavens, the Earth, and the seas. After he became a god, he went mad with power and threatened to make the world in his own image. But the Dao, in its infinite celestial wisdom, called upon the first Wu Assassin to strike down the first man. Yin and Yang. Chaos and order. These spirits have clashed for millennia, for which William's a vessel, at least for order, whereas his twin, Ku An Qi, queen of the Bangkok underworld, continues to spread chaos. She's taking out any threats to her and consuming Chi to build her power. Last month, she went to San Francisco in search of Kai, but Jenny intervened, which led to her death. William and Ku are connected. If he opens himself up to her, she will come. In the fight, Jenny took a talisman from Ku. William has the other half. It's a piece of their Essence, and she will try to get it back. In two days, Ku is meeting the heads of the Five Triads at the Vie Hotel, solidifying her power base. Unfortunately, William doesn't possess the ability to stop her. His powers extend to the mind, whilst hers focus on the body. William is hopeful they can apprehend her, but Kai, Tommy, and Lu Xin are reluctant and distrustful of William. Despite this, Tommy agrees.

Lu Xin fears that they will be walking into a trap if they go into the hotel, but Tommy isn't concerned with his safety, only avenging Jenny. Kai proposes that he go alone, but Lu Xin and Tommy refuse, telling Kai that his powers don't make him better than them and that they're not burdens.

Kai joins Tommy by the poolside, where he reveals that Lu Xin is calling his contact. Tommy doesn't care what Kai does, he's coming no matter what, but Kai warns him that fighting angry will only get him killed. However, anger is all Tommy has. When Lu Xin reveals that his connection blocked him due to what happened at the club, Tommy says that he knows someone who might be able to help.

Zama is taking photos when she gets a message, telling her to come to the safe house.

Kai, Tommy, and Lu Xin meet with Tommy's connect, a former lover named Preeya, who kisses Tommy upon her arrival.

Zama arrives at the Interpol safe house, where they have a member of the triad in their possession. Zama tortures the triad affiliate until he gives up the location of the Five Triads meeting at the Vie Hotel.

Preeya leads Kai, Tommy, and Lu Xin to a market after learning of their mission to get inside the Vie Hotel. She warns them that Ku is dangerous, but they're aware and hand her a list of items to acquire and arrange to reconvene at a later time. Tommy reveals to Kai and Lu Xin that he met Preeya five years ago, when he was in Bangkok and someone stole his Louis V backpack. Preeya returns after having acquired every item on their list and tells them that their plan is a dangerous one, as the only way into the Vie Hotel is through the front, where there will be security. Tommy then reveals to Preeya that Jenny is dead. Feeling sympathetic, Preeya offers to help.

The following day, Kai, Tommy, Preeya, and Lu Xin arrive outside of the Vie Hotel just as Ku enters. Once she's inside, Tommy and Preeya enter the hotel as a couple and place their bag on the ramp to be scanned through the x-ray machine, which reveals multiple guns inside their bag. This results in Tommy and Preeya being apprehended by security, allowing Kai and Lu Xin to sneak in unnoticed. Meanwhile, Zama and Interpol watch the security cameras from a disguised van across the street from the hotel.

Ku enters the meeting room and slaughters the Five Triads leaders. Elsewhere, Tommy and Preeya are being interrogated by security, who discover nothing more than a bag full of water guns. Preeya then uses the device in her bag to scramble the security cameras within the hotel, allowing Kai and Lu Xin to sneak upstairs on the elevator. However, Ku has already made her way back downstairs, where she kills the undercover Interpol agent and seizes control of the hotel staff to make them her own personal army.

Kai and Lu Xin take out the guards, only to discover that the Triad leaders have been completely massacred. Before they can get any answers, Zama arrives with her weapon drawn and tell them to put their hands on their head. As it turns out, Lu Xin and Zama are familiar with one another. In fact, they met in London and were in relationship. He was pushing some Aston Martins, and she was his broker, who turned out to be an Interpol agent. Zama calls in for back up, but her team is unresponsive. She holds them at gunpoint until Tommy sneaks up from behind and holds a knife to her throat. Suddenly, they are joined by the hotel staff, as well as Ku's henchmen, resulting in an all out brawl, forcing Kai, Tommy, Preeya, Zama, and Lu Xin fight off their attackers.

After breaking away from the others, Kai comes face to face with Zan, who was offered a deal by Ku: the Wu Assassin in exchange for power. Kai and Zan begin to trade blows. Meanwhile, Tommy and Zama have split up from Lu Xin and Preeya, who find themselves the target of multiple gunmen while fleeing the parking garage. Tommy and Zama on the other hand, take the elevator and fight their way out but find themselves trapped inside after the front doors have been welded shut. Fortunately, Lu Xin and Preeya arrive and ram through the doors with the car. Moments later, they are joined by Kai, who is knocked off a building and into the water below.

Zama leads them to the van, where her fellow agents have apparently been killed, as nothing remains but some blood. They get in the van and drive away, but they're being followed by Ku, who orders her people to take them out. They try to escape, but they are boxed in, and the truck is shot up, forcing them to return fire, taking out several of their attackers. However, they are forced to crawl out the truck and hide when the van is flipped over and set ablaze, but the pursuit continues, and so Kai, Tommy, Preeya, Zama, and Lu Xin fight their way out and then run down to the canal, where they take a boat to Chao Phraya, Preeya's home. Standing at the entrance is a magical protection barrier that prevents the unwanted from entering. Preeya then introduces them to her Uncle Chatree.

Kai prepares dinner and asks Chatree what he knows about Pan Gu, though he is hesitant to give up an answer. He does however assure Kai that in Chao Phraya, they are well protected. He then places a bracelet on Kai's wrist that restrains his arm until Chatree releases it.

That night, Kai, Tommy, Preeya, Zama, and Lu Xin sit down with Chatree, who tells them that William Pan and Ku An are opposite forces but they are not in opposition to each other. They are two halves of a whole that have been working in harmony through all their births, lives, deaths, rebirths, towards one goal, reforming back to Pan Gu, the first man. And using their power, they will remake the world in their image. And with the Dao broken, they have the opportunity by harnessing the Chi of the Wu Assassin. The two of them each have a piece of their own Essence. Forged from the stone of the temple where they were split. If they can infuse the pieces with Kai's Chi, they will be able to connect the halves. Tommy then reveals that they have one half and tries to destroy it, but instead it blows a hole in the table, as it can't be destroyed.

Lu Xin follows an overwhelmed Zama back to her room, where she is struggling to wrap her head around the supernatural world. When Lu Xin found out about the supernatural, he shot a Russian gangster in the face and poured himself a drink. He then shares a drink with Zama, which leads to the two of them having sex.

Chatree is not worried about them losing. Because if that should happen, Pan Gu would remake the world and they'd simply be "the forgotten dreams of a butterfly." Pan Gu seeks to control all, and he will not allow anyone to stop him, especially not Kai, who Chatree suspects didn't come to Chao Phraya for safe haven, rather to leave and face Pan Gu on his own after everyone went to bed.

Preeya reveals to Tommy that the last time she was in Chao Phraya was ten years ago. Her family had a farm by the river. There was a bad flood one day. Water came suddenly, and just like that, she lost her mom, dad, and sister. There's nothing she can do to bring her family back, but she thought she could bring Tommy some peace for Jen, which is why she's helping. At least there's something he can do to avenge her. Tommy then kisses Preeya and heads up to his room, with her following behind, but she gets a message from an unknown number saying that they can bring her family back. So, she heads back downstairs and is shown a vision by William and Ku of Preeya reunited with her family, which they make real. Preeya embraces her sister. For this to become real, all they need from her is Kai's Chi. Preeya accepts the deal and removes the protection seal barrier before stealing the talismans from around Tommy's neck.

Ku leads her men into Chao Phraya to attack, whilst Preeya uses the talisman to take some of Kai's Chi, which she then gives to Ku. Meanwhile, Tommy, Zama, and Lu Xin all awaken from their sleep to defend Chao Phraya, though they are greatly outnumbered. They go searching for Preeya, but Kai reveals that Preeya betrayed them.

Kai faces off with two large warriors with glowing sigils inscribed in their hands. He does his best to fend them off, but he is out-powered, that is until one of the men split off to take on Zama, evening the odds for Kai, who manages to gain the upper hand and defeat his attacker. Just down below, Lu Xin fights the other powered warrior, who was initially going after Zama. Much like Kai, Lu Xin is outmatched and overpowered, even more so, when his hands are nailed to a tree. Fortunately, Chatree comes to his aid, stabbing the man as Lu Xin drives two nails through his head. Kai, Zama, and Lu Xin convene with Tommy and drive off, as Chatree dies trying to hold off the attackers.

They escape Chao Phraya on the main road, but Kai, Tommy, and Lu Xin are at odds. More now than ever before. Lu Xin blames Tommy for trusting Preeya and Kai for planning to take on Pan Gu by himself. Zama intervenes and talks some sense into the bickering trio. She reminds them that they're supposed to be brothers saving the world. She advises Tommy to get over his anger, Kai to get over his guilt, and for Lu Xin to get over his ego.

William and Ku are at the sight where the first Wu Assassin tore them apart. Zan is alongside them and intends to kill Kai. With the talisman in hand, Preeya asks how many more people have to die before she gets her family back, as her uncle is dead too. Ku takes the talisman and William tells her she will be reunited with her family soon enough.

Kai, Tommy, Zama, and Lu Xin arrive at the site where Pan Gu was defeated. They immediately find themselves under fire from Zan, armed with a sniper rifle. Lu Xin faces off with the Beast whilst Kai takes on Zan, and Tommy and Zama search for Pan Gu.

Tommy and Zama face off with Ku, who initially has control, but they manage to get control of the fight long enough for Zama to snap her neck. They then run into Preeya, who apologizes for betraying them, explaining that they promised she could see her family again. Tommy forgives her, but there isn't much time for making up, as Ku makes her way back to her feet, explaining that mastery over the body has its perks. Ku resumes her assault, but Tommy, Zama, and Preeya kill her permanently after driving her own spear down her throat.

Lu Xin continues to trade blows with the Beast, and he even gains the upper hand for a moment, but going against a super powered opponent is his downfall, and Lu Xin is rendered unconscious.

Zan promised herself she'd erase anything related to when she was a pawn for Kai's father. That started with Jenny, and it ends when she kills Kai, attacking him with two blades, but he dodges Zan's attacks before disarming her and snapping her neck, thus killing Zan.

After defeating Zan, Kai is attacked by William, who uses his talisman to drain Kai's Chi and reassemble the two halves thus, returning Pan Gu to his natural form. Kai then checks on Lu Xin, who is taken over and controlled by Pan Gu, who in turn forces the two of them to fight. Fortunately, Kai is able to get through to him, and Lu Xin regains control. Pan Gu attempts to retreat into a sinkhole, but Kai follows him down, whilst also hanging on to a rope tossed down to him by Lu Xin, who then follows Kai into the sinkhole, where he and Kai kill Pan Gu and are pulled back up to the surface by Tommy, Preeya, and Zama.

Some time later, Kai, Tommy, Preeya, Zama, and Lu Cin are vacationing on a beach, where they toast to family, as well as Jenny.

## Cast

### Starring

* Iko Uwais as Kai Jin
* Lewis Tan as Lu Xin Lee
* Lawrence Kao as Tommy Wah
* Pearl Thusi as Zama Zulu
* Francesca Corney as Preeya
* JuJu Chan Szeto as Zan Hui
* Jason Tobin as William Pan

### Also Starring

* Rhatha Phongam as Ku An Qi
* Simon Kook
* Sumret Muengput
* Selina Woramon Wiesmann
* Sahajak Boonthanakit as Chatree
* Charlie Ruedpokanon
* Jean-Jacques Velicitat
* Joseph Angelo Pirrera
* Supoj Khaowwong "Jim"
* Alexander Sean Winters as Interpol Tech
* Nikola Mitic
* Ungsaya Jeerapakorn
* Perk Rattanathitinunt
* Supadej Wongwatanaphan
* Katarina Greguskova
* Wallop Thearathong
* Skulgan Phiphobmongkol
* Suttinan Sukkawatanapirom
* Kevin Lea Davies
* Samrit Warin

## Production

* On February 26, 2021, it was announced by Netflix that *Wu Assassins* would be continuing with a standalone movie.
* Roel Reiné, who directed multiple episodes of the first season of the series, directed the film. Cameron Litvack, Jessica Chou, and Yalun Tu, all of whom were writers on the first season, wrote the film as well.
* *Wu Assassins* cast members Iko Uwais, Lewis Tan, Lawrence Kao and JuJu Chan returned, along with new cast Pearl Thusi, Rhatha Phongam, Francesca Corney and Jason Tobin.
* The film was shot in Thailand with production services provided by Living Films.

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Fistful of Vengeance - Official Trailer - Netflix
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 ‘Wu Assassins’ Standalone Movie Set At Netflix - Deadline
2. ↑ Fistful of Vengeance Synopsis - Netflix Media Center