Five years after the first "Tiger Claws" movie and the world was enrichened with the 1996 movie "Tiger Claws II". And with this being a sequel to a rather cheesy movie, I have to admit that my expectations weren't high at all to what writers Andreas Kyprianou and J. Stephen Maunder had to offer with "Tiger Claws II".
Yet, I still opted to sit down and watch the movie, as I hadn't already seen it and also because the movie did have Bolo Yeung on the cast list after all.
And I have to say that "Tiger Claws II" was a step backwards, so it did actually manage to live up to what most sequels tend to offer. And sure, why would the 1996 action movie "Tiger Claws II" be any different?
The first movie had a vague script, but for the sequel? Forget about it. It's gone. The movie felt like an illegitimate lovechild of "Bloodsport" and "Mortal Kombat". And yeah, while that definitely sounds like an interesting mix, trust me, it wasn't. Nay, "Tiger Claws II" was just cringeworthy to watch. The storyline written by Andreas Kyprianou and J. Stephen Maunder was just ridiculously bad.
I can't claim to be fan of neither Jalal Merhi or Cynthia Rothrock. And truth be told, I watched this mostly because of Bolo Yeung. But watching him go a whole movie without much dialogue was just stretching it a bit too thin.
If you enjoy poorly made sets that are so campy it hurts, watching martial artists go through a ridiculous obstacle course in order to qualify for a tournament, and then watch a watered-down rip-off of the "Bloodsport" fights, and then also have have a man in questionable make-up made to look old do magic with his hands and watch two people step through a teleporter, then "Tiger Claws II" is your kind of movie. Yeah, I kid you not, this is essentially what "Tiger Claws II" had to offer.
And the title of the movie was sort of fading away into oblivion as the Tiger Claw style wasn't really being used throughout the course of this cheesy action movie.
The acting in "Tiger Claws II" was every bit as non-existing as the storyline. Just a friendly heads up reminder.
My rating of the 1996 "Tiger Claws II" from director J- Stephen Maunder lands on a three out of ten stars.
