I wrote this on another forum the other day:
Finally got my hands on a "Black Scorpion II: Aftershock"-DVD and re-watched the flick yesterday.
Damn, seems like quite some time went by since I last watched it.
If you compare it with the first movie....it's a rather big disapointment in comparison.
But let's start at the beginning, the dvd is in the player and the DVD menu appears like that:
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I thought I inserted the wrong DVD...it only says "Black Scorpion".....not "Black Scorpion 2" or "Black Scorpion 2: Aftershock".
And that is clearly the costume from the first movie (in the scene where she is riding on Michael).
WTF?
What happened here?
Oddly enough the 1st print DVD from the first movie doesn't have a DVD menu at all...no kidding.
But this one has the exact same menu as the 2nd print DVD of the first movie that came out years later.....
I don't get it....ok, a rather strange aspect, but if you hit "play movie" the 2nd movie starts..... :-)
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The 2nd movie often drifts into clownish comedy and not only because the Joker rip-off aka Gangster Pranksta is there.
The action is shot pretty bad.
And the main problem of the movie is.....there is way too less Black Scorpion in it!
She basically has only 4 short(er) scenes incl. only one with Rick (as the detective is named in the 2nd one).
As Darcy she is mostly completely unsexy ....only in an odd day dream scene she is dressed really hot.
And that picture says a lot about the weirdness of the movie:
Yeah, Rick that is not where her slip should be put on......
Especially embarrassing as she enters the room and sees him like that......
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The movie has two really good scenes:
- Gangster Prankster attempts to force Black Scorpion to unmask:
"Take off your mask!.....or I burn it off!"
- Black Scorpion unmasks in front of Aftershock to convince her to give up (hell of a RISK!)
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What is really odd....Black Scorpions kills in this movie without batting an eye.
She arrests Gangster Prankster on one occasion and kills him in the next encounter (she had the choice)
She just kills the criminal couple in a car chase at the beginning....WTF?
Totally out of control....
Funny enough the crazy guy is played by the same actor who became Detective Steve Rafferty in the TV series afterwards:
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Ok, one more good thing can I say, the DVD cover is really good:
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My Black Scorpion ranking:
-TV show
-1st movie
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-2nd movie
Yeah, there is a 3rd movie as well, but that doesn't count for me as it is just a mix-up from the TV show.
But I still have to get it for the collection.....