It has another noteworthy Louis Febre score, plenty of blow-ups and shooting, and is still of a good quality all around. That said, the film does have its faults. But she is mistakenly arrested by the police after foiling a supermarket robbery. Plus his international criminal organization seems like a boy scout camp, and his minions even dress that way. Coby has blood on him. John Savage is the real star of the show; his surprisingly intelligent performance as Kluge managing to give him the chance to rise above his co-stars.
It's the ultimate in chick fighting. Lamas is now long haired and mooches around in the background. Gone is director Joseph Merhi, to be replaced by Lorenzo Lamas who can barely act let alone direct a sufficiently exciting action flick. All Kinmont wants to do is raise her daughter, her daughter whose father is John Savage the terrorist who they think has the chip. John Ryan was last seen as the baddie from American Cyborg: Steel Warrior 1993 , and his name in the film, Straker, is one we've seen before last seen being used by Richard Norton in Raiders of the Sun, 1992.
Lab Tech Alexa is one of the best, but her handiwork is done for terrorists. However, in a separate operation, mercenary soldier Franz Kluge John Savage and his second-in-command, warrior woman Lana Lori Fetrick , steal the computer chip needed to activate the module. The pace is quite slow, even during the action set-pieces. Lori Fetrick is mainly known to American Gladiators fans as Ice, and her presence here shows this film as pure 90's. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. If any of this sounds like your cup of tea and it certainly is mine! Elsewhere, the plot is a mess of explosions, grubby fight scenes, and general inanity.
Perhaps to capitalize on the success of the first film, C. Set in an antique house amidst the haunted saltwater marshes of Cape Cod, like the Sixth Sense, the film marries Hitchcock and the paranormal in a tightly plotted thriller. Lana is soon revealed as a traitor, and Alexa fights and kills her. Reportedly, their marriage went sour, and so, on the evidence of this sequel, has this potentially robust film series. Another group beat him to it. Alexa's first fight in a grocery store is a standout action sequence. Lorenzo Lamas's fans will see him do his martial arts thing and Kinmont is pretty good herself.
This is an action movie where the girls rule, with Kinmont impressing as a beautiful and resourceful undercover agent, while ex-hubby Lamas takes a back seat. As far as acting goes, Lamas is more competent as an actor than he is as a director. They face an evil and terrifying menace as the strangers appear. The fights here are by comparison poor indeed, and nothing feels very exciting, just ho hum. While he is working on Alexa, his boss is working on Graver.
Ralph Straker as John Ryan. Graver and Alexa, in love once again, are reunited. Emma is a struggling romance writer. She looks like Jenna Jameson but with much more ripped arms. They even have two fights against each other, and even though Fetrick has an obvious strength advantage, Kinmont holds her own pretty well. Simpson starring actioner filled with hard-hitting fight scenes - but this undistinguished sequel is a big step down.
John Savage, once a respected mainstream actor, is amateurish, and Lamas's brand of bare-chested machismo has already worn painfully thin. The plot is the usual sub-Bondian nonsense, with John Savage phoning in his performance as a routine bad guy, but the budget seems higher than average and the result is some well-staged mayhem. The one thing that this film really has going for it is female bodybuilder Lori Fetrick and Kinmont going at it. And who can you really trust? Sex and murder, lust and deadly vengeance make this a night that the romance writer and her new friend will never forget. Thankfully, Lamas is kind enough in this case to share the spotlight with two women, Kathleen Kinmont the heroine and Lori Fetrick the villainess , who both have superb bodies: sweaty, muscular and fit.
To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. The villains are an uninteresting bunch, aside from warrior woman Lori Fetrick, who gets to engage in some frenetic and hard-hitting bouts with Kinmont. Not to mention the fact that the film transplants most of the plot elements of the original here without giving us anything new. . Alexa is too tough to turn on her own, so Graver must find the key to unlock her conviction. Will Graver and Alexa be able to work together again to defeat the bad guys? Cast Cast overview, first billed only:. Sure, this movie didn't really need to be made, as it covers very similar ground to the first film while not being as good - but this movie is a lot funnier than the first one.
Kathleen Kinmont is back as the tough heroine, once more coerced by the government into fighting some nefarious bad guys in her quest for justice. Chief Robin as Pam Dixon. What we're left with is the kind of film you end up forgetting about roughly five minutes after it finishes. This time around, the main baddie is Franz Kluge Savage , and his henchmen are Straker Ryan and Lana Fetrick. He doesn't have it, but he sure wants it. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await.