The film follows these integrated events 17 years after the first movie events. This time, the film explores the life of Choi Sung Hoon's son, Lee Han Dong's son, who grew up in an abusive family, while his life turns into a bad path when he falls into life from minor crimes and then ends up in prison. It's a new stage in this young man's life where he meets Doon-seok with Dong-soo '; Song Hoon's son is in prison, but he keeps his relationship with Dong-soo a secret and their lives turn to a different turn.
While it's not much worse than its predecessor, Friend 2: The Legacy has none of the bromantic charm that made Friend, South Korean writer-director Kyung-Taek Kwak's 2001 gangster drama, the highest-grossing film in Korean history.
For pure genre lovers, all of this will be pure catnip, and for others, once you accept all the derivativeness and noisome clichés, it may deliver real, if somewhat primitive, migraine-inducing entertainment.
