Move over Chuck Norris

Leng Feng to the rescue.
 

and yes it has some political commentary: the reason he is in Africa? It starts with a real estate company tearing down his house in China after he got back from Wolf Warrior I. He fought them, and ended up in jail so now he is working in the private sector.

In China, one reason for rioting (that the western media doesn't notice) is because people's ancestral land or houses are confiscated by bullies/corrupt businessmen who bribe local officials, to build new stuff. (one reason why Avatar was banned in China).

But the rest of it is pure one man against the world, as in Rambo or in DieHard.

the story is rescuing Chinese civilians from a civil war in Africa.

Yes, another story ignored by the US MSM: The presence of Chinese in Africa.

no, not "do gooders keeping people in their (primitive) traditional ways" (no GM food for you guys: Starve;. And no decent factories either: hoe the maize like your ancestors, instead of learning about computers and cellphones) or do gooders who protect the environment (what do you mean the elephants were ruining the crops and the lions killed your kids? That's no reason to kill the poor animals so beloved of western yuppies).

it's a lot easier to join the trolls against Trump for calling these places hell holes than recognizing that they are, and one reason is because of corruption: Local politicians steal everything in site.

As for the piracy:in the film it is off the east coast of Africa, (think Somalia) but nowadays there is also a lot of piracy off the coast of Nigeria: not only our Filipino sailers on oil tankers or supply ships are the victims, but there has been Chinese kidnapped there too, and China is friendly with Nigeria, because of all that oil there.



 

For better or for worse, they are there and building a new Africa, whereas American films tend to be about animal, or about poverty, without seeing how Africa, like Asia, is changing.




Many African countries are thriving; other not so much... and as for "hellholes": It's the corruption, stupid.

that was a 2006 article, but this 2016 article at the Guardian shows not much has changed.

The sums are not small: recently a former Nigerian state governor pleaded guilty to a £50m fraud. In 2001, it emerged that a former Nigerian dictator laundered $1.3bn through London banks. Nigeria ranks 136 out of 167 in Transparency International’s corruption index. Its current president asked Britain to return assets held by dishonest Nigerians, shrugging off David Cameron’s suggestion that his nation was “fantastically corrupt”.

Not just from Nigeria, of course: Zimbabwe similarly has been looted by their corrupt political leaders... and all this is done with the help of multinational banks, of course.(2005 article). More recent article here:Africa's wealth floods offshore as corrupt leaders, corporations use banks to hide fortunes (2015)

China, of course, is also very corrupt, but is used to working with corrupt politicians. The danger? If they prop up the corrupt governments they might end up being thrown out.

Or if a "nationalist" government takes over, they could be deported and their businesses confiscated.