Terrorists again for Christmas or we demand the release of Mustafa Ishman and Ahmed Rashish. When watching, I remembered another project called “Evil Dead” directed by Sam Raimi. No, the genres of the films are different and the only similarity is that there and there the plot of the first series is almost completely, with minor changes, retold in the second part, well, in the third film, the hero was transferred to a completely different time or place. So, in our case, the character of the android albino, took people hostage in two parts at once, and in the third series, the action was transferred far into space. In Evil Dead 2. Ash returned to the house in the woods, and in the third series he goes back in time.
The full title of the film on VHS used to be Shadow Hunter 2: Night Siege.
Like the first, the second part, released in 1994, is similar to many other similar films about the capture of someone or something. The action here takes place on Christmas Eve (“Die Hard”), where terrorists not only kill, almost all, hostages, but also blow up a plane with passengers on board (“Die Hard 2”) to demonstrate force. Plus, they threaten to target a nuclear warhead at Washington (“Peacemaker” with Dolph Lungren).
The continuation of the story about the android albino, which is worth a billion dollars, looks no worse than the first part. Produced by Denny and Avi Lerner, creators of The Expendables 1 and 2. Apparently, they were the ones who made a lot of explosions in the picture. Frank Zagarino played the android again, and the director was the former, a certain John Ayres, who then shot another of the last two films about this character. The lesser-known Martin Cove was replaced by a completely unfamiliar Brian Geness, who fights very well. He, apparently, indeed, as his character tells at the very end of the picture, participated in the World Kickboxing Championships in 1978. Meg Foster was also changed to Beth Toussaint, who, in the manner of Sarah Conor, so fiercely defended her son that she stuck a tube 108 diameter cyborg in the stomach.
In the film, everything seems to be fine for this category of militants, although it is unclear: the cyborg, in addition to the inflated naked torso, shows little, cannot forge a voice, you have to record the original speech on a dictaphone to open the door, and shoots not very accurately. In this connection, apparently, to compensate for the shortcomings, he has to scream furiously, and shoot right and left indiscriminately. For some reason, they also forgot about the voice of his movements. In the first series, he even when acting made mechanical sounds, but here he did it only once and calmed down. But in the third series of the project, all this was corrected: made him makeup, showing his inner steel skeleton and forced to move, a little sharper than Robocop himself.
At an early age in this film, I remember the main character played by Brian Geness, who acted as a drinker with a flask of alcohol, which saved his life. In the picture, by the way, he famously waved his legs and arms. I was also pleased with his fight at the end of the film, where he fought with his bare hands with our android albino, which is an undoubted plus, because in the first, third and fourth series of the project there were no fights at all. In general, the film is recommended for those who like action movies not with shooting, but where the emphasis is on hand-to-hand combat. If you like shootings, you better watch the first series, the more the plot with the hostage-taking is almost identical.
After watching this movie recently, I was shocked at how cruel it was. If in the first part, the blood was somehow not shown, as well as the murder of hostages, then the creators tried to fame, killed almost everyone and with special cruelty, and even on Christmas. What is interesting in childhood, this cruelty was not noticed, but the MPAA rating with the letter R is absolutely fair, there is no nudity, but there are enough brutal murders.
Due to the fact that the film was viewed in childhood, the rating is very inflated:
6 out of 10