Black Mask 2: City Of Masks

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	Tobin Bell	Moloch
	Jon Polito	King
	Teresa Herrera	Marco
	Tyler Mane	Thorn
	Andrew Bryniarski	Iguana
	Scott Adkins	Dr. Lang
	Rob Van Dam	Claw
	Sean Marquette	Raymond
	Oris Erhuero	Wolf
	Robert Allen Mukes	Snake
	Michael Bailey Smith	Ross
	Traci Lords	Chameleon
	Andy On	Black Mask
	Silvio Simac	Troy
	Blackie Shou-Liang Ko	Sergeant
	Terence Yin	Dr. David
	Marcus Fox	Thai policeman

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Director	Tsui Hark
Writer	Tsui Hark, Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud, Dirk Blackman, Charles Cain
Producer	Wai-Chung Chan, Tiffany Chen, Tsui Hark
Musician	J.M. Logan
Photography	Yongheng Huang, William Yim

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My quick rating - 3.5/10. Let me explain. Almost so ridiculous it was worth keeping. Almost. I can only assume they handed some 2nd grade kids some crayons and had them draw out some ideas for their favorite things. These images were handed to the writers to work a story around it. What they ended up with was a sequel to a pretty good Jet Li flick that has nearly zero to do with the first. Let me sum this up. A wrestling promotion is combining DNA from animals with their human wrestlers ( another Rob Van Dam sighting) to make their characters far more believable. Well, the evil leader of the organization Tobin Bell has taken this a bit too far and starts turning them into hybrid animal/human monsters. Mr. Li was smart enough to steer far away from this abomination of a flick but somehow they roped the highly underrated Scott Adkins to being a heavy for the bad guys. So our black mask this time Andy On is on the case to try and stop them but instead ends up injected with DNA from something (they never really explain what animal) and now not only needs to stop them from blowing off a mutation bomb to alter the world into these creatures, but also save himself. The fighting sequences in this movie are just as over the top as the plot. They completely blow off even using wire effects and just allow people to basically fly among other laws of physics ignored. I did find myself laughing far more often than I should be since it was just so damn stupid. And that leads me back to the first line. Almost. Oh, and just an additional name that had a role in this movie....Traci Lords. Yes, she plays the chameleon and might have actually been the best character of the whole mess. If you are a fan of cheesy flix, you may have to put this on your list to see it.

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