Election 2

Election 2 (黑社會2：以和為貴, 2006) is a Hong Kong crime thriller by Johnnie To that you can watch online on iFILM. Triad chairman Lok, played by Simon Yam, wants a second term — which the brotherhood's rules flatly forbid — and he's prepared to remove whoever stands in the way.

The real prize here is access to mainland China's markets, and that's where the more business-minded Jimmy comes in. Tony Leung Ka-fai plays him as someone the elders trust precisely because he keeps violence at arm's length. The machinery of succession pulls him in anyway. To shoots the negotiations, the beatings and the backroom deals with the same flat, procedural clarity — no heroism, no glamour, just the mechanics of institutional corruption.

Where the first film examined how criminal power gets handed over, this one asks what it does to the person reaching for it. The tagline says it: even a man who knows better ends up serving the same logic. Smart, brutal Hong Kong cinema. Stream Election 2 online on iFILM.