Shootfighter II

After seeing Shootfighter 1, and the buckets of blood they shed, I was ready for another rousing jaunt of open handed heart massage, and chiropractics in a cage. But nooooooo, this was like the Barney version of the first movie, with that lamer from the Karate kid. At least Bolo Yeung still kicks booty, although he needs to do more movies like Bloodsport and Caddyshack.

Shootfighter 2 is better than the first movie. This is mainly because of the fight scenes, who are pretty good. They're nowhere near as brutal as the scenes in the first movie were, but they're in fact better all the way through. Also, it's more focus on Bolo Yeung in this movie than in the previous. He still isn't the lead, but I really liked his performance in this one. Of course, this is not an A-grade movie and it has it's unintentionally funny situations. Some of the fights (and fighters) are for example just comical, but that's just a proof that the movie doesn't take itself that seriously. A good and entertaining movie.

A bad bad movie... terrible plot, hinges on Bolo Yeung's charater, but he speaks maybe 20 words in the entire movie and only has one fight scene - still in great shape considering he was also in the kung fu classic "Enter The Dragon" Interesting to see William Zabka ("Johnny" from The Karate Kid) in another martial-arts role.

Now, this is my kind of movie, 80's/90's cheesey martial arts film with not very good acting, bad lines but some decent fight scenes.

I won't go too much into the story (revenge etc etc) to avoid spoilers.

I love films like King of the kickboxers, shootfighter 1, China o Brien etc so I know what I'm getting heading into this sort of movie.

The first issue as stated by others is the lack of blood, the first movie was decent with the amount of blood and gore etc

The second issue and by far and away the worst for me is Joe Son, from what I hear he's not a nice guy for real but he is a terrible actor and I absolutely despised him, needed something more along the lines of Tong Po to add a bit of fear but this Son guy was just a joke.

Ok. No law states that anyone appearing in a Martial Arts flick, must be endowed with copious amounts of acting talent. Most of those who appreciate these films, watch for the fight sequences, and how well they are done. I, myself, love a great actioner. The storyline with Bolo Yeung, and characters "Ruben" and "Nick", is easy enough to digest. As I mentioned, this is not Shakespeare. Yet, this "movie" has no excitement, whatsoever. The actors try, but the fighting sequences were as exciting as watching dust settle on a lampshade.

This, plus ho-hum production values, equals one movie that could replace SLEEP-EZE as America's main relief from insomnia.