Kill ‘Em All 2
Kill ‘Em All 2
Kill ’Em All 2 is set seven years after the original events of Kill ’Em All and having the time lapse make sense since the two films came out seven years apart. Philip (Jean-Claude Van Damme, The Last Mercenary, Hard Target) is now with the daughter Vanessa (Jacqueline Fernandez, Mrs. Serial Killer, Tell It Like a Woman) who has hidden away in Southern Italy with him after seven long years since the last news came out of them. They registered at a hotel in Southern Italy apparently unused of moving and getting on their feet for some time.
As such, it isn’t much of a surprise when they are within the movie’s opening minutes, set upon by some thugs employed by Vlad Petrovic (Andrei Lenart, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Crossing Over) who is looking to avenge the death of his brother Dimitri, who we learnt in the previous Mind Kill, was killed by Philip. As a result, there were hounded by foes now, with Vlad and his followers who needed to be killed staring them in the face, but that would take them, all of them, to kill ‘em all.
I have never seen this original version so to say I do not know how this TV series is adapted as I have lost track of it. And that may Rest their ruination through a new mostly cast of Kill ‘Em All 2 new director of Valeri Milev Re-Kill Bullets of Justice and the writer Jim Agnew Giallo The Capture.
How they would describe quite an ordinary belt driven tv show genre motion picture where a couple of supporting characters also made it back such as the agents Holman Peter Stormare The Ritual Killer and Sanders Maria Conchita Alonso Fear City Predator 2 from the first film. In the case, Alonso does more than a float around in a muscle gown and looks like she was doing a steam cameo with a little shot in her house. Besides, actress Talia Asseraf Night Caller Skincare also appears but in a different role which could be hard for the fans of the original to accept.
And when I say they have delivered a standard plot, I mean it, quite frankly. Contrary to what Kill ‘Em All 2 offers, you’ll be two steps ahead of the antagonists right from the start. Ho hum, more of the same with a few double and triple crosses scattered about.
The story moves from vengeance to several characters trying to kill each other over a specially designed flash drive worth millions. This culminates in … well… the usual: using high-tech equipment to crack into bank safes and secure mansions or villas, car racing and beating up whatever number of rivals a low budget allows, which isn’t too impressive anyway.
Thank God, while badly cast and rather uninteresting with some exception of imaginative and brutal cutting implements, the fights in Kill Em all 2 occur often enough and are of an adequate quality. Stunt coordinator Simone Belli (Once Upon a Time in London, Ferrari) manages to get assistance from a surprising fit and quick Van Damme who still can pull out decent moves despite the pained look on his face in some scenes.
Cinematographer Angelo Stramaglia (Hard Night Falling, Almost Dead) and Aldo Shllaku (The Comeback Trail, The Price We Pay) manage to keep Kill ‘Em All 2 All adjourning to the climax with some world war 2 left over weapons and references from the Charles Bronson movie The Evil That Men Do.
In the end, Kill ‘Em All 2 doesn’t even try to be more. A plain DTV action flick, and nothing more. But it also makes no claim that it is anything more. Of course even the cast understood this, and half the fun here is in watching Lenart and Stormare eat the scenery.
And Vam Damme kicks ass so I guess the fans will be pleased. But that’s all that is to be offered in here. It’s not to the level of the other recent Van Damme’s release Darkness of Man but it is still decent than what Steven Segal made in his last two decades. Too bad that’s all there is, because Milev has shown some good promise in the past but here, none of that is on show.
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- Genre: Action
- Country: United States
- Director: Valeri Milev
- Cast: Peter Stormare, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Maria Conchita Alonso
