If I were a sultan, I would have three wives and be surrounded by triple beauty. But if I was the main character of this film named Jack Det, then I had two of them at once, and was surrounded not by double beauty, but by dangerous transers. It’s all about the plot, which becomes a show of luck for any sequel, especially for a picture with a low budget, where the story itself should catch on, rather than an embodiment restrained by visual tricks.
Former director Charles Band deftly continued the original, making it much more interesting, because if it was based on a straightforward basis with the adventures of the police future in the past (or rather the present at the time of the release of the film), then now we have the opportunity to delve into his fate, tracking the complexities of a double life between centuries. In addition to a similar design about a new villain, bringing people into a trance, subduing their will, turning them into zombie-like creatures, and the presence of well-known key positive characters, including a new hochma with the movement of the annoying boss again into the body of the other sex, Jack Det meets his dead wife from the future, being married to a new chosen one! Such a finding becomes an impulse not only for a couple or two funny scenes with an involuntary bigamist or a romantic line, but brings out a stretched intrigue up to the final. The viewer (if he liked the first part with its characters or the entire franchise is perceived as a piece of childhood) with great attention monitors the development of family relations, not knowing exactly who the choice will be, while simultaneously watching the wedged mandatory action-packed centerline with opposition to the insidious plan to enslave the world.
As the second episode in the franchise, the episode turned out a little richer on action, which is an integral part of a fantastic action movie during shootouts, fights, and chases with trans. Of course, beyond the level of b-movie, he did not step, but the genre rhythm is precisely calibrated, somewhere giving respite with dialogue and search for answers, and somewhere entertaining with catch-up and pistol clapping. And since there is a "terrible" grain, the authors will not forget to scare the sinister hospital, putting experiments on patients.
Mentioning the saved characters, it is impossible to keep silent about the actors who returned to the sequel and some new, complementing the pleasant backbone of recognizable lyceums, faithfully working at the Full Moon Studio in many of its paintings. The role of the policeman of the future is played by Tim Thomerson, making it familiarly authentic, in the image of a cool cop with a permanent cape, Helen Hunt still plays along with him, until she found fame in the popular series and Hollywood productions. Their enemy was embodied by Richard Lynch (Richard Lynch), perfectly able to depict on the screen dozens of different negative types, the good and extraordinary appearance of this only helps in every possible way. In nervous assistants, a noble lyceum of horror works - Jeffrey Combs, and the most attentive will notice a small episode with Barbara Crampton - "The Scream Queen."
In general, the sequel acts in the old coordinates of low-budget works of the producing studio, whose name says a lot, both for long-time viewers-collectors and for opponents of b-movie. Thus, the technical side by any measure will be extremely cheap, using only makeup in the demonstration of something futuristic on the screen, and the tools of the action movie are reduced to a minimum level. However, the plot itself is interesting with the development of the characters of important characters, the dynamics are well sustained, and the acting game does without falsehood or absurdity, reducing what is happening to a thrash balaghan, especially all this is commendable given the limited funds for production.
7 out of 10