After his gym is destroyed by thugs, a broke David Sloane (Mitchell) must get back into the ring. Sasha Mitchell (as brother of Kurt and Eric from part 1) was a good replacement for Jean-Claude Van Damme here. Mitchell is a competent actor with decent charisma.
Dennis Chan returns as Thailand teacher, Xian and Michel Qissi is back as Tong Po to establish that this is indeed a direct sequel. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (who's always in these things) and Peter Boyle add much need gravitas.
The movie is at its best during the first two acts before going off the rails in the third act. The fight that David's friend Brian (Vince Murdocco) has simply isn't believable (for obvious reasons.) The police would be there in minutes.
The film could have done with a breather (days passing) and some quality training sequences, before the final showdown (which is shot too close up) but the screenwriter wrote themselves into a corner.
Watchable (but for MA fans only.)
Amazingly, David S. Goyer wrote the screenplay, the writer of The Dark Knight trilogy (2005 – 2012) and the Blade films (1998 – 2004.)
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DIRECTED BY: Albert Pyun. RUNNING TIME: 89 minutes. USA.
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