Lady Dragon 2 (1993)
8/10
Cheesy film with a great villain and some hilariously twisted scenes
17 May 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I think this movie might make it as a cult classic if more people knew about it. The reason I say that is because Billy Drago's character Diego is one of the most demented and unintentionally(?) hilarious movie villains I've ever seen.

The plot centers around a bunch of diamonds that Diego and his men stole from some mobsters. They plant the goods in a couple's luggage to get them through customs, with the intent of invading their home at night to retrieve them. The couple happen to be a women kick-boxing champion "The Golden Angel"(played by Cynthia Rothrock) and her husband, a soccer superstar named Sonny.

Sonny wants to use the diamonds to help "his people" so he plays dumb when Diego comes looking for them. Diego knows better. He gives "soccer man" a career-ending stab in the knee and rapes his wife.

Another visit by Diego and his men ends up in a house-trashing, wheelchair-spinning round of soccer-man tormenting which reminded me a bit of a scene from Clockwork Orange. For his refusal to give Diego the diamonds, soccer-man gets a bullet to the head, after which one of Diego's men poses for a picture with his corpse! LOL

The rest of the movie is a cat-and-mouse game as the Golden Angel seeks revenge and Diego continues to torment her for the diamonds.

One scene had me laughing long afterward....the Golden Angel hears a noise downstairs and confronts the intruder with her shotgun...only to discover that it's her husband's corpse, which Diego and his sidekick have exhumed and left sitting in his wheelchair for her to find...with maggots crawling on him and a soccer ball in his lap.

That scene alone is enough to make this movie worth watching.
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