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Best of the Best 2 (1992)

Director: Robert Radler

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From Time Out Film Guide

Three years ago, Roberts, Rhee and a surprisingly mercenary supporting cast enacted the Olympian efforts of the US karate team against the mighty Koreans; but this effort, less sequel than cast reunion, jettisons the comparatively ascetic demands of the sports movie formula for the more demonstratively decadent pleasures of action-melodrama. Newton invites a select group of high-rollers to the Las Vegas Colosseum's nightly no-rules blood bout, where our horizontally-challenged pair vow to avenge the death of their team-mate (Penn). Radler's contemporary gladiator movie is little more than a crude pastiche: no matter that its prime role models come from sci-fi (Rollerball, The Running Man), at least it musters the courage of its shameless contrivance.

Author: TCh 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: Robert Radler

Producer: Phillip Rhee, Peter Strauss

Cast: Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Wayne Newton, Ralph Moeller, Meg Foster, Edan Gross, Chris Penn full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure

Duration: 100 mins


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