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Wolf Warrior 2 is a 2017 Chinese main melody Film directedby starring action star Wu Jing, who also starred in the lead role. Now it is China’s top grossing film and the 54th highest grossing film world wide. With a total domestic gross of CN¥5.68billion(USD$874million), the film having exceeded North America's totals from Avatar , Titanic and Jurassic World, become the second highest-grossing film of all-time in a single market only behind Star Wars: The ,Force Awakens . The film is a sequel to 2015's Wolf Warrior which tells a story of a loose cannon Chinese s oldier named Leng Feng who adventures journey to rescue com patriot s and local friends in a war-torn region of Africa occupied by insurgents and mercenaries. In 1987, China first proposed the concept of “main melody film”. The conference pointed out that “The realistic themes reflecting the spirit of the era and the revolutionary historical themes that express the splendid achievements of the party and army are the main melody works, which should carry forward the national spirit. Government must take effective measures to prosper these two theme films”. China's main melody film has formed its own unique narrative system and operating mechanism and has always been the subject of Chinese film research. as an important means of mainstream ideology and values, the main melody films have been responsible for the communication of socialized ideology and the national image. At the same time, it also needs to have artistic aesthetics. Wolf Warrior 2 received general praise for its patriotic plot, special effects, action sequences and the cast's performances, also received high praise from China's state-owned and military-affiliated media. It becomes a valuable research topics and cultural phenomenon because it has enabled western countries to recognize the type and characteristics of Chinese main melody film. Therefore, this article will analyze the cultural characteristics and artistic expression of Wolf Warrior 2 based on the text analysis and visual language theory, combined with film expression methods such as story, narrative techniques, photographing techniques and CG effect to evident how it combines the narrative modes of Hollywood-type movies with Chinese local themes to conveys the current mainstream values of China in the combination of disasters, wars, and kung Fu.