Putrid potboiler glorifying gangsterism with comic book characters, PT 2

Rating: Null/10 (20 July 2005)

I thought nothing could get worse than part 1, but part 2 managed to do it. It continues the super slick presentation of part 1, the glorification of what is evil in the world, and don't give that garbage about how evil is equivocal. These people kill people and have no sense of humanity beyond themselves and their own selfish world. This director is twisted, in his world love is a selfish design, and there's no room for sacrifice. Why do people like Kiddo? She's the least evil of the evil. And are we really supposed to believe that core of martial art training is to provide assassins? But what really makes this one worse than part 1 is the outstandingly awful over-acting of David Carradine, a lousy attempt to present himself as a wise sage of some sort. It seems that with Carradine, less is better. The less he's seen, the better. The less he says, the better. He needs to stop playing Caine from Kung Fu. But at least Caine was a considerate human. And what was that crud about a truth serum he invented? What a contrivance. This two film series is a big contrivance.