Bloodfist II

Plot synopsis:
The film opens with Jake Raye as he fights Mickey Sheehan in a pro-kickboxing bout. The movie opens as they enter the fifth Round of the Lightweight Championship Match. Jake delivers Mickey a lightning fast kick to the throat in the middle of the sixth round, instantly killing him. Seeing what he had done, he decides to give up kickboxing once and for all.
A year later, a friend and manager Vinny Petrello (Kickboxing and UFC champion Maurice Smith) asks him for a favor to travel to Manila and bail him out of trouble with a guy named Su. Although Jake's evening with a prostitute (Liza David) is interrupted, he agrees to help his friend in need. Jake Raye travels to Manila, and meets up with local fighters John Jones (James Warring), Sal Taylor (Timothy D. Baker), Manny Rivera (Manny Samson), and Tobo Casenerra (Monsour Del Rosario). He also meets up with Dieter (Robert Marius), the head of the Dojo. Thugs attack Jake, and is helped by a woman named Mariella (Rina Reyes) into an abandoned safehouse. Mariella betrays him, and the thugs enter the safehouse. Dieter drugs Raye, and puts him on the ship with the other fighters. Raye is re-acquained with his friend Bobby Rose (Rick Hill) and meets another fighter named Ernesto (Steve Rodgers). It is revealed that Su (Joe Mari Avellana) is the one who bring the fighters to his island home called Paradise, and it is also revealed that Vinny is helping Su get the fighters there to battle in gladiator matches.
The fighters briefly rebel giving Jake Raye time to escape. Soon Raye has a change of heart and decides to free the other fighters. He makes it back to the house undetected by Su, and is helped once more by Mariella. Mariella and Raye uncover a plot for Su to give anabolic steroids to each of his fighters before the match.
Jake Raye takes out some guards before he is discovered by Dieter and knocked unconscious by Vinny, pretending to be in trouble. Jake is taken to the challenger’s box of the arena, where Su, Vinny, and his guests are awaiting the matching. Both John and Ernest die in the arena while battling their opponents while Manny is killed trying to escape. (Ernest does win his fight, but Su orders Vinny to kill him either due to his unorthodox fighting i.e. low blows and eye gouging however it should be noted the fights were not fair to begin With and they were fighting for survival or his embarrassment of su's fighter) the help of Mariella, the remaining surviving fighters (Bobby, Sal, Tobo, and Jake) Jake fights and kills Vinny while the others defeat the guards and the elite fighters. Bobby shoots Dieter while escaping, and the film ends after Jake defeats Su with a swift kick off the balcony. The five people begin to walk off Paradise forever.

Tags: violence

Review:
The Dragon Returns!.
Jake Raye(Don "The Dragon" Wilson) is back in action, only this time the action is more extreme.
In "Bloodfist II", Jake and several other fighters go down to the Phillipines, where a friend of Jake's calls him out to help him.
It turned out to be a booby-trap for all of them.
Jake's friend seem to got himself way over his head.
Working with the wrong people and getting greedy from those people.
Jake and his friends fight for their lives when their opponents take a steroid which makes them impervious to pain, but some of the fighters didn't do too well.
They kill off whoever doesn't last in the fight whether it was Jake's friends or the opponents.
Looks like those who took the steroid, didn't have a clue that they were pawns as well.
Jake friend took the same steroid and he paid the price for betraying him and his friends.
The steroid may have given him immunity to pain, but it didn't make him indestructible when he took a roundhouse to the neck.
Once the old saying goes, Once a pawn, always a pawn, forever a pawn!
That steroid had only one purpose, and look what happens.
That movie was a lot of fun, and the plot of the movie was great, I liked that.
Rating 3 out of 5 stars..
This movie is one of the best movies that Don "the dragon" Wilson has made!!
its really good to watch and what makes it more better is the fact that there are some great fighters in this movie, i really like this movie it has a lot of mysteries in it!!.
It's rated pretty low....
...And perhaps deservedly so?
OK, so any movie, especially a martial arts movie starring "B"-movie Kickboxing phenomenon Don "The Dragon" Wilson, with backing by Roger Corman, is bound to not be good, right?
Yeah, pretty much.
I'll admit to watching and video-recording the first two "Bloodfist" movies that feature "The Dragon" as American Kickboxing champ Jake Raye, who's kicking the bad guys' butts in the Phillippines.
In both movies, Raye has to fight in brutal martial arts tournaments and also get out of some sort of convoluted mess of a plot.
But in "Bloodfist II," Raye returns to Manila, this time to help out a friend named Vinny Petrello (former UFC champ Maurice Smith) who is in some sort of trouble.
It turns out to be a trap, and Raye is kidnapped along with six other martial artists (whose styles range from Greco-Roman Wrestling to Judo to Shotokan Karate) and forced to fight a group of chemically enhanced brutes in a series of Roman-style, to-the-death gladiator fights arranged by Su (Joe Mari Avellana).
Now with the rising popularity of mixed martial arts all over the world and my own personal interest in this sport, it would make sense that a movie like "Bloodfist II" would get some more attention, since it deals with fighters of different styles coming together to show whose style is the best.
(But didn't they do that in 1988 with Jean-Claude Van Damme's movie "Bloodsport"?) Yet, this entry, by director Andy Blumenthal, has pitiful acting, lousy dialogue, Jake's poorly timed relationship with Su's daughter Mariella (Rina Reyes) and just about everything else, except the fights, with the actual tournament not starting until the third act of the picture.
The illegal underground martial arts tournament story has been done to death already.
How about fighters competing in a legal martial arts tournament for once?
And lastly, there's Wilson.
He's far from a great actor, but his performance is pretty much limited to his Kickboxing skills, which shows that his title as "The Dragon" seems rightful.
Too bad, he could've been a great cult movie martial arts star if his career and "B"-movie choices had panned out a little better.4/10.
To break a promise....
I swore that I would never watch any Bloodfist sequels after being appalled at what I saw with episode # 1, however somebody said that I'm a lot like another reviewer who has been reviewing low budget junkers such as I, his name is Gridoon.
I looked at his reviews and it turned it out he had reviewed Heatseeker, Kickboxer 4, Cyborg and a bunch of others that I had seen.
Not to be one upped, I dare challenged to watch all Bloodfist movies, just to prove I was no meter maid in the stakes of bad movies.
In other words I rented and saw all Bloodfist movies in two days.
The film itself stars Wilson as a you guessed it, a kickboxer who is abducted and forced to fight a bunch of super fighters enhanced by a steroid.
The sequel is of course an obvious rip off of Enter The Dragon, but the fighting here was better and from what I have seen remains one of the better entries of the series.
Take that however you want take it.
Wilson though is dependably terrible.* * out of 4-(Fair).
Much better than part 1.
This sequel saved the franchise for part 1 was poorly made even by it's standards but the sequel had a much better story, fights and the important chemistry between the actors.The action is full pack and u don't get bored like in the first film.In fact all bloodfist sequels are better than part 1 so i urge you to avoid part 1 and start your collection from part 2.Don the dragon Wilson is great as always and together with matthias hues john barrett lorenzo lamas sasa mitchel van damme michael worth to name a few starred in many great American martial arts movies like the bloodfist series, kickboxer series and movies like bounty tracker, final impact, shootfighter and American kickboxer 1 to also name a few gems..
Relentless side-scrolling beat 'em up.
BLOODFIST II is a shambolic production: clearly made on the ultra-cheap, consisting of non-actors who couldn't look more wooden if they tried, with a threadbare story that shamelessly rips off ENTER THE DRAGON at every opportunity from the island tournament to the chunky henchmen and urbane criminal overlord.
And yet it's still ten times better than the truly execrable BLOODFIST, which remains one of the worst films I've ever watched.The reason this sequel is better is purely because it has more action – and a lot more action, at that.
In fact, there's a fight scene regular as clockwork every five minutes or so, and sometimes even more frequently.
Sadly, the fights aren't up to much; the choreography is about as boring as it could be, and the opponents display no discernible talent, merely running towards the hero and falling down when they get kicked in the face.
But at least there's stuff happening, unlike in the first movie.Sadly, the numerous faults are still too major to make this even remotely resemble anything approaching a good movie.
Don "The Dragon" Wilson is a humourless and extraordinarily wooden leading man, my least favourite of all the martial arts stars, and he goes through the motions here.
The supporting cast are even worse and some of the performances are downright appalling.
The plot is dull and tired and far too simplistic, and in the end this is nothing more than moving wallpaper, or a film version of the old side-scrolling beat 'em ups where exchangeable thugs are mown down by a one-dimensional hero character..
Don "The Dragon" Wilson returns as Jake Raye a kickboxer who is forced out of retirement to face altered warriors in this Enter The Dragon knock off.
Bloodfist II maybe a definite improvement over it's awful predecessor, but it still isn't all that good, however some decent fightscenes as well as a fast pace makes this less painful.
Don "The Dragon" Wilson may be the only martial arts action star to date that has killed the same bad guy twice, while playing the same character..
THIS MOVIE KICKS A**E!!!.
THIS MOVIE KICKS A**E!!!.
this movie is the better of the eight bloodfists movies it is about a guy called jake raye, and he gets a phone call from his old mate vinnie to fight for su, thats the drug lord, but vinnie wants jake dead so he tricks him by saying that they have been friends for years, meanwhile, jakes friends all get roped into going to this island where su drugs up his fighters because so wants jake and his friends to fight against su's people!!.
Epic martial arts action..
Champion kickboxer Jake Raye quits the sport in anger after his opponent is killed in the ring.
Two years later, Raye is called by his friend Vinny in Manila, who is trying to leave the country without being killed.
Raye heads over to escort him to safety but is overpowered & drugged.
Coming to, he discovers that he & several other champion fighters have been chained together & taken to an island where they are expected to fight in professional gambler Su's gladiatorial contest.
Raye manages to escape, but sneaking into the mansion in order to free his friends finds that Vinny has been assisting Su in developing a super steroid that is undetectable & gives its user super strength & immunity to pain.
Raye must help his fellow fighters in taking on the small army of thugs & drugged-up killers in order to leave the island alive.After the original Bloodfist made back its money & then some in its limited theatrical release, producer Roger Corman decided to greenlight this, the first of eight sequels.
Don "The Dragon" Wilson returns as the hero (although this is the only sequel where he plays the same character twice) & a couple of his co-stars in the original Bloodfist return as well.The film is an improvement over the original, but not by much.
Indeed, Bloodfist II has better fights & more action than the original.
Here, the script has been developed to make a story that despite being nothing more than a thread to connect all the fights together still has considerably better drawn characters than the original ever did.The fights in this film are considerably better than those in the original.
Here, the martial arts champions starring in the film must take on an army of drugged-up killers & an almost unlimited number of stick-wielding thugs in a climax that is so full of wall-to-wall martial arts action that you'll be almost overwhelmed by the sight of it all.While saying that, Bloodfist II is still not a particularly decent film.
It is better than the original, but remains decidedly average.
If you like the sight of muscular men beating the crap out of each other, then this will be a good choice.The acting is better than the first film, but still has its fair share of bad actors.
Among the ones improving their thespian skills is hero Don "The Dragon" Wilson.
He has improved considerably since the original but still has a long way to go.
Richard Hill makes one of his early appearances as the Army Ranger combat instructor & Joe Mari Avellana returns as the sinister gambler & steroid maker Su (making him the only actor to be beaten by the same nemesis (Wilson) in two films)..
Twice The Punchfighting and Twice The Silliness!.
Jake Raye is back, and in kickboxing-related trouble once again!
Since the last Bloodfist film, Jake became a legit kickboxer, in state-sanctioned bouts with boxing gloves, etc., and put his punchfighting past behind him.
When he accidentally kills his opponent in the ring, he vows never to fight again.
After about two years have passed, Jake has hit the skids.
His apartment is in disarray and he's not in shape.
One day, he gets a call from his friend, a Black man inexplicably named Vinny Petrello (Smith), who lures him back to Manila once again.
Once back on his old stomping grounds, Jake and a bunch of other fighters are kidnapped and spirited away by boat to the private island home of sinister kickboxing fan Su (Avellana).
He forces the men to take part in an "illegal high stakes tournament" - death fights, or as Su calls them, "gladiator fights".
But Su's men have an unfair advantage.
He pumps them full of a special steroid that makes them impervious to pain.
So the good fighters don't know what they're up against.
Luckily, the plucky Jake Raye and love interest Mariella (Reyes) get to the bottom of it.
Will Jake live to see another sequel?
For those that don't know, only the first two Bloodfist films are truly sequels.
The Dragon plays Jake Raye in the first two films only.
The other 897 Bloodfist movies are basically separate entities but renamed under the Bloodfist banner because presumably Roger Corman felt fans would rather see an eighth sequel to something, whether it's truly a sequel or not, than a new movie with an original title.
Interesting logic.Nevertheless, the first half of Bloodfist 2 is very similar to the original film - the same locales are used and some of the situations seem oddly familiar.
But once the fighters are on the boat to Su's house, things change.
The movie somehow becomes dumber, yet more fast paced, even though a huge block of time is spent in one room as the fighters fight.
Yet it never becomes a slog.
That was pretty impressive.
It was here that the film developed its own, more original personality.
And of course, the film ends with a big, final brawl.Avellana is back as the bad guy, but not the same one from the first movie.
And the rankings of the fighters/actors are back in the credits, but the movie outdoes itself in introducing these men to the audience, as Su names them all, and their titles/rankings in the movie as well.
In the order Su introduces them, they are: John Jones (Warring), Manny Rivera (Samson), Bobby Rose (Hill), Ernest Santana (Rogers), Tobo Castanerra (Del Rosario), and Sal Taylor (Baker), the last of which sports a spiffy shirt throughout the entirety of his screen time.
Additionally, Ned Hourani and Cris Aguilar return from the first movie, but in different roles.
Don The Dragon gives his delightfully wooden delivery we all know and love.Bloodfist 2 is more of a typical punchfighter, but the action and humor elements are ramped up more, and the plot is tamped down to a minimum.
Since all Bloodfist movies apparently had to be 85 minutes, the filmmakers decided to try a new structure, at least for the second half of the film.If you watched the first Bloodfist movie and wished it had MORE punchfighting, as well as more silliness, this, the only true sequel, is the movie for you.NOTE: in the end credits, Wes Craven and Stephen Tobolowsky are listed as "advisors".
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