The title prepares you for a martial arts bloodbath, but you gradually realize this is actually a SPOOF of the genre; I think "potato fuel" is the first clue. The "bring-the-old-team-together-for-one-more-mission" story is cliched, and the film is overlong, but it is saved by the fact that it has its tonque firmly planted in its cheek. James Ryan is a terrible actor, but his hands and feet speak more eloquently than his mouth; luckily, the GORGEOUS Anneline Kriel gets her share of action as well. I was going with ** out of 4 for this movie, until the unexpected "bullet-time" sequence at the end, 18 years before "The Matrix" (!), which adds another 1/2 star. Undemanding entertainment.
28 Reviews
very silly,but fun
disdressed128 May 2010
this is one silly,preposterous movie,but it is fun.the dialogue is laughable.it's delivered in a laughable manner.the acting is mostly abysmal,sometimes it's worse.and don't get me started on the low production values and the cheap sound effects.the plot is laughable too,of course but despite all this,or maybe because of it,you have to keep watching.and none of the negatives matter.the movie is self aware,and knows what it is,and isn't trying to be anything else.like i said,it's a lot of fun.and some of the fighting scenes are pretty decent as well.i didn't like it as much as it's prequel,Kill or be Killed,but it's still worth a watch.for me,Kill and Kill Again is a 6/10
Asking the Question: What if Afrikaners had Made 'Enter the Dragon?'
dmeister7214 April 2014
Warning: Spoilers
You all know the plot: An evil super-villain in some remote compound prepares his army of karate soldiers to dominate the world. The fate of the world thus rests in the hands of our super-ninja hero, sent in by the Gov'meant with his team of sidekicks, who must defeat the super-villain's champions in a karate match in order to save mankind.
Starring James Ryan as Steve Chase as The White Bruce Lee, and marketed as a sequel to the seemingly unrelated "Kill or Be Killed" (1976), "Kill and Kill Again" gives you just about everything you would expect from a cheesy 1980s karate showcase movie that doesn't star Chuck Norris.
Although fight scenes from the 70s and 80s, which frequently rely on traditional Shotokan karate, generally do not age well, many of the action sequences in this movie still seem competent. And James Ryan, who was not a martial artist before making these films, actually does an incredibly convincing job as a super-ninja.
Sure, you may wonder why the army of karate soldiers dress in summer camp t-shirts. Or why the super-villain keeps sending unarmed men to stop our protagonists. You may even find a super fuel made from potatoes that also makes a mind control serum as a byproduct hard to swallow. Et cetera. Et cetera.
But it is all in good fun. While considerably less serious than the vastly superior "Enter the Dragon," "Kill and Kill Again" provides a combination of 80's action and camp that is hard to beat. Movies like "Kill and Kill Again" and "Gymkata" (1985) are great throw-back flicks to enjoy on a weekend afternoon.
Starring James Ryan as Steve Chase as The White Bruce Lee, and marketed as a sequel to the seemingly unrelated "Kill or Be Killed" (1976), "Kill and Kill Again" gives you just about everything you would expect from a cheesy 1980s karate showcase movie that doesn't star Chuck Norris.
Although fight scenes from the 70s and 80s, which frequently rely on traditional Shotokan karate, generally do not age well, many of the action sequences in this movie still seem competent. And James Ryan, who was not a martial artist before making these films, actually does an incredibly convincing job as a super-ninja.
Sure, you may wonder why the army of karate soldiers dress in summer camp t-shirts. Or why the super-villain keeps sending unarmed men to stop our protagonists. You may even find a super fuel made from potatoes that also makes a mind control serum as a byproduct hard to swallow. Et cetera. Et cetera.
But it is all in good fun. While considerably less serious than the vastly superior "Enter the Dragon," "Kill and Kill Again" provides a combination of 80's action and camp that is hard to beat. Movies like "Kill and Kill Again" and "Gymkata" (1985) are great throw-back flicks to enjoy on a weekend afternoon.
DUDE, LIKE, THIS BE SOME BAD POTATO JUICE, MAN!
monstermonkeyhead12 December 2003
I can't believe I watched this entire movie, but I just couldn't stop! The main bad guy has a terrible fake beard, who has kidnapped a doctor that created a chemical from potatoes (?!) that hypnotizes people to be slaves. There's a chick with fire-engine red dyed hair. The plot seems to have been written by a 3-year-old. The 'funny' parts are just plain painful. Guys float somehow by using martial arts techniques. This reminded me of an A-Team episode on stupid pills. Although, this movie was made by morons, it was entertaining. So what does that make me? Watch out for the evil potato!
Everyone Kung Fu Fights in New Babylonia
Bogmeister18 October 2007
MASTER PLAN: eliminate free will and create a new kung fu race! The follow-up to "Kill or Be Killed" of the previous year again follows the pattern of the famous "Enter the Dragon" picture, meaning a small group of elite fighters enters the private kingdom of a slightly-insane master villain, who has his own private army and seems preoccupied with the ancient city of Babylon. This one's a little more tongue-in-cheek than "Kill or Be Killed" but is also slightly more entertaining, as a result. This features the return of Steve Chase (the lithe, acrobatic Ryan), South Africa's answer to Bruce Lee, as the best martial arts combatant in the world (he's given some award at the start of the film). In the previous movie, Chase was just caught up in the weird plans of the villain, whereas here, he's on assignment as a special agent (but, for a lot of money, not a salary). Chase is approached for a special mission, a la a kung fu version of the James Bond style, and then gathers a quartet of specialized fighters, all of whom he knows from some previous missions. A female fighter also tags along, claiming to be the daughter of the scientist who is held captive by the villain. So what we have here, besides the "Enter the Dragon" and Bond parallel, is another "Magnificent Seven" or "Dirty Dozen" kung fu take-off, albeit with only half-a-dozen special fighters.
Much of the entertainment stems from the odd group that Chase puts together. One guy is known as 'The Fly' (a real-life martial arts master, apparently) who, besides the obvious abilities, is actually able to levitate (unless it's some trick - Chase copies him at one point). Another just seems like overweight comic relief, but can throw a punch when he has to. Then there's Gorilla, played by Gampu, whom I remember from way back to the incredible "The Naked Prey" from the mid-sixties. It's not a bad cast for this type of picture. Even more comedy is provided, however, by the villain, which does go a bit overboard. His paramour or moll, a severely-fake redhead, calls him a bunch of pet names, like 'popsickle,' and he keeps telling her to stop it, to no avail. This does not impress or awe the audience. Plotwise, it's out of a silly comic book: the villain plans to use a drug which enslaves the populace to his will - and he actually sounds like he's doing the world a favor when he explains this. As the heroic group approaches his stronghold, he sends groups of fighters against them which get quickly pulverized. Then the heroes infiltrate his domain. At one point, they're under suspicion by the guards and talk to each other about their plan to break free within the obvious hearing distance of the armed guards! It culminates in the standard arena-type fights - guess who prevail? Yes, it's dumb, inconsequential, but kind of fun. Heroes:6 Villain:4 Femme Fatales:5 Henchmen:6 Fights:7 Stunts/Chases:5 Gadgets:2 Auto:3 Locations:5 Pace:6 overall:5
Much of the entertainment stems from the odd group that Chase puts together. One guy is known as 'The Fly' (a real-life martial arts master, apparently) who, besides the obvious abilities, is actually able to levitate (unless it's some trick - Chase copies him at one point). Another just seems like overweight comic relief, but can throw a punch when he has to. Then there's Gorilla, played by Gampu, whom I remember from way back to the incredible "The Naked Prey" from the mid-sixties. It's not a bad cast for this type of picture. Even more comedy is provided, however, by the villain, which does go a bit overboard. His paramour or moll, a severely-fake redhead, calls him a bunch of pet names, like 'popsickle,' and he keeps telling her to stop it, to no avail. This does not impress or awe the audience. Plotwise, it's out of a silly comic book: the villain plans to use a drug which enslaves the populace to his will - and he actually sounds like he's doing the world a favor when he explains this. As the heroic group approaches his stronghold, he sends groups of fighters against them which get quickly pulverized. Then the heroes infiltrate his domain. At one point, they're under suspicion by the guards and talk to each other about their plan to break free within the obvious hearing distance of the armed guards! It culminates in the standard arena-type fights - guess who prevail? Yes, it's dumb, inconsequential, but kind of fun. Heroes:6 Villain:4 Femme Fatales:5 Henchmen:6 Fights:7 Stunts/Chases:5 Gadgets:2 Auto:3 Locations:5 Pace:6 overall:5
East meets West in the Transvaal
Chase_Witherspoon21 December 2023
Follows the exploits of cuban-heeled martial artist and uber-cool cat 'Steve Chase' (Ryan) as he assembles a posse of karate experts (and Flynn as comic relief) to rescue Kriel's father whose been abducted by a tyrannical cult leader (Mayer) building his own isolated drug dependent anti-society.
Comedy-action sequel to '76 'Kill or Be Killed' is part 'Enter the Dragon', part 'Magnificent Seven' (albeit only six), and even channels the Rev Jim Jones in a 'Guyana Cult of the Damned' style as our karate commandos travel the rugged wilderness trying to locate the reclusive community of New Babylon under the mind-control of the insecure despot Marduk and his pink-haired flamingo first lady (Wilson aka the pink lady).
It doesn't quite hit a consistent beat and is probably 15 minutes overlong, but the cast is likeable including veteran Ken Gampu as an ox-like brawler nicknamed 'Gorilla' not technically a martial artist, yet still manages to dispatch the villains in less orthodox ways, whilst former 'Miss World' Kriel is an attractive contrast to all the chest-thumping testosterone and contributes her own brand of partial round-house kicks to compete with the boys.
Nicely choreographed with cheesy dialogue, lots of sweat and handlebar moustaches, and nothing salacious to upset the censors, KaKA showcases all the motifs made for 80's video success, and the catchy title sells more than it's worth time and time again, much like it's inherent cheesiness, it just gets better with age.
Comedy-action sequel to '76 'Kill or Be Killed' is part 'Enter the Dragon', part 'Magnificent Seven' (albeit only six), and even channels the Rev Jim Jones in a 'Guyana Cult of the Damned' style as our karate commandos travel the rugged wilderness trying to locate the reclusive community of New Babylon under the mind-control of the insecure despot Marduk and his pink-haired flamingo first lady (Wilson aka the pink lady).
It doesn't quite hit a consistent beat and is probably 15 minutes overlong, but the cast is likeable including veteran Ken Gampu as an ox-like brawler nicknamed 'Gorilla' not technically a martial artist, yet still manages to dispatch the villains in less orthodox ways, whilst former 'Miss World' Kriel is an attractive contrast to all the chest-thumping testosterone and contributes her own brand of partial round-house kicks to compete with the boys.
Nicely choreographed with cheesy dialogue, lots of sweat and handlebar moustaches, and nothing salacious to upset the censors, KaKA showcases all the motifs made for 80's video success, and the catchy title sells more than it's worth time and time again, much like it's inherent cheesiness, it just gets better with age.
Kill and Kill Again (1981)
fntstcplnt28 December 2019
Directed by Ivan Hall. Starring James Ryan, Michael Mayer, Anneline Kriel, Jon Ramsbottom, Ken Gampu, Norman Robinson, Marloe Scott Wilson, Bill Flynn, Stan Schmidt, Michelle Feher. (PG)
Sorta-sequel to "Kill or Be Killed" has slightly better production values (less intolerable, that is), slightly less insane plot (potato juice mind control, sure, but not a single Hitler fantasy to be found), and an incredible tagline ("He's not one of the best. He is the best!"). Despite not having a lovable dwarf henchman like the first production--Chico, you are missed--this outing makes do with a main baddie (Mayer) who wears a fake beard and puts up with a constant string of pet names given to him by his right hand (wo)man, a Pink cosplayer called Minerva (Wilson). Ryan again plays a guy named Steve (Steve Chase, to be exact, though he was previously Steve Hunt), gets involved in a bunch of amateurish martial arts fights, has a love interest (Kriel) but makes no effort to actually exhibit romantic interest, eventually wins the day (spoiler alert?). Entirely awful, but amusingly so, at least. One of Roger Ebert's guilty pleasure movies.
17/100
Sorta-sequel to "Kill or Be Killed" has slightly better production values (less intolerable, that is), slightly less insane plot (potato juice mind control, sure, but not a single Hitler fantasy to be found), and an incredible tagline ("He's not one of the best. He is the best!"). Despite not having a lovable dwarf henchman like the first production--Chico, you are missed--this outing makes do with a main baddie (Mayer) who wears a fake beard and puts up with a constant string of pet names given to him by his right hand (wo)man, a Pink cosplayer called Minerva (Wilson). Ryan again plays a guy named Steve (Steve Chase, to be exact, though he was previously Steve Hunt), gets involved in a bunch of amateurish martial arts fights, has a love interest (Kriel) but makes no effort to actually exhibit romantic interest, eventually wins the day (spoiler alert?). Entirely awful, but amusingly so, at least. One of Roger Ebert's guilty pleasure movies.
17/100
Fun flick!
Hey_Sweden1 September 2012
As far as martial arts cinema goes, "Kill and Kill Again" may be on the cheaper and cheesier side of things, but it is these very elements that make it oh so amusing. Fans of the genre will find enough things to make it a hoot to watch: a simple story, entertaining heroes and villains, negligible acting, beautiful South African scenery, and enough action to keep it watchable at all times.
A follow-up to the earlier "Kill or Be Killed", it stars James Ryan as Steve Chase, a martial artist hired by a woman named Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel) to rescue her scientist father Dr. Horatio Kane (John Ramsbottom) - a possible relation to a certain C.S.I. detective? - who's been kidnapped by a maniacal arch-villain, Marduk (Michael Mayer) who intends to control the populace of the Earth and have them do his bidding, thanks to a drug the scientist's discovered. So Steve reconnects with some old buddies - The Fly (Stan Schmidt), Gorilla (Ken Gampu), Hotdog (Bill Flynn), and Gypsy Billy (Norman Robinson) - to form a rescue team.
There are enough inspired details in "Kill and Kill Again" to make it very agreeable: the fact that Mayer is clearly wearing a fake beard, his female partner in crime Minerva (Marloe Scott Wilson) who uses terms of endearment to address him in front of underlings, the early scenes of The Fly and Steve meeting (gotta dig the levitation), Gorilla acquiring the costume of a baddie and having it rip on him as he realizes it's not his size, and of course all of the various fight scenes. Things are so blatantly comedic at times that one has to believe that screenwriter John Crowther and director Ivan Hall weren't ever taking any of this too seriously.
This is precisely why this is a fun flick, and Hall keeps the action and the laughs coming. The movie doesn't take long to start delivering the goods, and the actors here look like they're having a good time. Schmidt and Robinson also serve as the martial arts choreographers, and while Ryan isn't a very expressive performer, he's still reasonably likable and has enough of a presence to make him a suitable hero for this sort of thing. It doesn't hurt that some of the female cast members, including Kriel, are quite attractive.
Overall, this is an acceptable diversion leading to a fairly rousing finale and ending on an endearingly silly final note.
Seven out of 10.
A follow-up to the earlier "Kill or Be Killed", it stars James Ryan as Steve Chase, a martial artist hired by a woman named Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel) to rescue her scientist father Dr. Horatio Kane (John Ramsbottom) - a possible relation to a certain C.S.I. detective? - who's been kidnapped by a maniacal arch-villain, Marduk (Michael Mayer) who intends to control the populace of the Earth and have them do his bidding, thanks to a drug the scientist's discovered. So Steve reconnects with some old buddies - The Fly (Stan Schmidt), Gorilla (Ken Gampu), Hotdog (Bill Flynn), and Gypsy Billy (Norman Robinson) - to form a rescue team.
There are enough inspired details in "Kill and Kill Again" to make it very agreeable: the fact that Mayer is clearly wearing a fake beard, his female partner in crime Minerva (Marloe Scott Wilson) who uses terms of endearment to address him in front of underlings, the early scenes of The Fly and Steve meeting (gotta dig the levitation), Gorilla acquiring the costume of a baddie and having it rip on him as he realizes it's not his size, and of course all of the various fight scenes. Things are so blatantly comedic at times that one has to believe that screenwriter John Crowther and director Ivan Hall weren't ever taking any of this too seriously.
This is precisely why this is a fun flick, and Hall keeps the action and the laughs coming. The movie doesn't take long to start delivering the goods, and the actors here look like they're having a good time. Schmidt and Robinson also serve as the martial arts choreographers, and while Ryan isn't a very expressive performer, he's still reasonably likable and has enough of a presence to make him a suitable hero for this sort of thing. It doesn't hurt that some of the female cast members, including Kriel, are quite attractive.
Overall, this is an acceptable diversion leading to a fairly rousing finale and ending on an endearingly silly final note.
Seven out of 10.
James Ryan doesn't do too much killing...
Aaron137517 August 2020
This film is played off as a sequel to the film, Karate Killer aka Kill or Be Killed, but other than James Ryan in the lead the films have absolutely nothing in common besides recruitment scenes. This one is a bit more polished and better done than Karate Killer and has a better plot as well. Though in the end it is a bit goofy in places as it is most definitely not a film to be taken seriously.
The story has Steve Chase (James Ryan) accepting an award at a hotel and doing so in most spectacular fashion. He is then recruited to rescue a scientist who creates fuel from potatoes that also seems to double as a mind control drug. Seems a man calling himself Marmduke and his super henchman Optimus have enslaved an entire town using this potato fuel mind control stuff! Steve recruits some of his old buddies who are all tough dudes and they embark on a quest to rescue the old man whose daughter accompanies the group and stop the evil plans of the madman!
The movie does not take itself seriously at all and I am surprised it is not considered a comedy action. James Ryan does a pretty good job in the lead role and I just have to wonder why he would look so aged in Space Mutiny which would only be filmed 6 years later. He looks like he could be his father in that film!
So not a great film, but it was not all bad and had some interesting moments. You had your marshal arts on display, but not so much that it bogged down the film's plot of the evil madman with designs to control the world though one wonders how exactly he was going to contaminate the water supplies of the world while seemingly just kind of stuck in the middle of nowhere.
The story has Steve Chase (James Ryan) accepting an award at a hotel and doing so in most spectacular fashion. He is then recruited to rescue a scientist who creates fuel from potatoes that also seems to double as a mind control drug. Seems a man calling himself Marmduke and his super henchman Optimus have enslaved an entire town using this potato fuel mind control stuff! Steve recruits some of his old buddies who are all tough dudes and they embark on a quest to rescue the old man whose daughter accompanies the group and stop the evil plans of the madman!
The movie does not take itself seriously at all and I am surprised it is not considered a comedy action. James Ryan does a pretty good job in the lead role and I just have to wonder why he would look so aged in Space Mutiny which would only be filmed 6 years later. He looks like he could be his father in that film!
So not a great film, but it was not all bad and had some interesting moments. You had your marshal arts on display, but not so much that it bogged down the film's plot of the evil madman with designs to control the world though one wonders how exactly he was going to contaminate the water supplies of the world while seemingly just kind of stuck in the middle of nowhere.
Producer Montoro Finally Made A Watchable Film!
Heres_Johny8 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Before watching Kill And Kill Again, the sequel to Kill Or Be Killed (which I haven't seen), I'd suffered through three productions by Edward Montoro: Day Of The Animals, Grizzly, and Mutant. Each film left me with that unpleasant feeling in the pit of my stomach that started cropping up sometime in my late twenties: the knowledge that I'm definitely going to die one day, that feeling that life is short, and the suspicion that – partially because of movies like the three aforementioned – I've all but wasted my allotted span hitherto.
So it's not difficult to imagine my mindset when Kill And Kill Again's opening credits rolled, and there was Montoro's name plastered across the screen. I'd already paid good money for the thing, which represents work and arguably falls into that time-wasted category. Then again, if I watched what I was sure would be an atrocious movie, that would be another couple hours of my inevitable race to the grave spent on yet another horrendous Montoro film. Do I cut my losses now, or truly shame myself by letting Montoro fool me a fourth time? Obviously I chose to watch it. Buried beneath my existential nihilism is, in fact, an optimist. My findings? You heard it here first: Kill And Kill Again is kung-fu gold.
Well, OK, silver. But for Monotoro it might as well be platinum.
It's obvious he missed his calling: after watching three of the worst horrors ever shot on film, I watched Kill And Kill Again, an eighties kung-fu flick, and realized Montoro as a producer missed his calling. Don't get me wrong, 'derivative' still (as always) applies, and I can't judge whether Montoro's was intentionally satirical – maybe my modern sensibilities mistook an actually genuine attempt at a serious kung-fu movie for a tongue-in-cheek romp – but maybe, just maybe, Montoro (without a miraculous accident) actually turned out exactly the sort of film he wanted to make, and it was actually good.
James Ryan stars as Steve Chase, a world-renowned martial artist who (presumably in the first film) is no stranger to getting dragged into contests of a nature that's decidedly more lethal than your average cage-match. Model/beauty-queen Anneline Kriel plays Kandy Kane – I swear this isn't a skin-flick – who drags Chase on a quest to save her father, who's been abducted by the evil genius Marduk. Together they assemble an A-Team style crew of the usual typecast-oddballs and token-whatever's, who set out to karate-chop and roundhouse-kick their way to Dr. Kane.
Marduk – who's as comically villainous as you'd expect with a comic-book name like that – kidnapped Dr. Kane to work on his latest mastermind scheme for world domination. He's cooked up a potato-based obedience serum, and needs Dr. Kane to perfect it. Seriously, he's taking over the world with potatoes, and if that isn't intentional comedy I don't know what to call it. Marduk's got an entire campus full of brainwashed youths already on the drug, who he's raising as his personal karate army. Once Marduk's plan ripens (heh, get it, because potatoes?) he'll enthrall the entire world, assuming Chase, Kane and their sidekicks don't stop him.
Nothing about this movie, when viewed superficially, should have been enjoyable. It's got a white South African, James Ryan, all but parodying Bruce Lee (I could never figure out whether I was supposed to believe Ryan was actually Asian). The voice-acting sounds like a racist's interpretation of Native American mannerisms. Sexism is blatant, even for an eighties movie, although I'll give Montoro this: Kandy Kane is a far more active heroine than any of his others female leads. She'd critical to the plot, in fact, and gets in a few badass moments herself.
Kung-fu movies have a reputation for being cheesy and over the top; it's an inverse relationship between the realism of the kung-fu, and the awesomeness of the movie, and Kill And Kill Again wisely doesn't deviate. There's an obvious bit of realism beneath the choreography, but their ultimate goal was entertainment rather than believability. It's got everything we've all come to expect from these sorts of martial-arts movies: spinning kicks, backflipping as a valid means of daily transportation, parkour inspired wall-flips, and outright absurdism when it comes to how many (supposedly well-trained) combatants our heroes can fend off and defeat all on their lonesome.
As a matter of fact, Kill And Kill Again broke new cinematic ground, which isn't something I thought I'd ever say about a Montoro production. My jaw literally dropped a couple inches when I saw it. You'll recall the slow-mo spinning-bullet shots in The Matrix, I'm sure; turns out KAKA was the very first instance of that now iconic shot. Even more impressively, they accomplished it all without the modern technology The Matrix and other imitators relied on. A dolly, a camera, some plexiglass and clever lighting were basically all they used for the setup.
Innovation? Montoro? My core beliefs are thoroughly shaken.
Kill And Kill Again is, slow-mo bullet sequence aside, nothing new. It isn't plowing deep into fresh narrative territory; the minimal character development isn't masking any biting social commentary; the cinematography's impressive, but it's an action movie, so I expect nothing less.
But it's fun. It's enjoyable. You can laugh at the over-the-top kung-fu (or karate, whatever it's supposed be). You can dig the eighties nostalgia which is ultimately the genre's hallmark. You can turn your brain off, kick back, and prepare to be entertained with the comfortable knowledge that Kill And Kill Again won't require an iota of your upper-level cognitive function to fully enjoy what it has to offer.
And, like me, you can say you finally watched an enjoyable Montoro film.
So it's not difficult to imagine my mindset when Kill And Kill Again's opening credits rolled, and there was Montoro's name plastered across the screen. I'd already paid good money for the thing, which represents work and arguably falls into that time-wasted category. Then again, if I watched what I was sure would be an atrocious movie, that would be another couple hours of my inevitable race to the grave spent on yet another horrendous Montoro film. Do I cut my losses now, or truly shame myself by letting Montoro fool me a fourth time? Obviously I chose to watch it. Buried beneath my existential nihilism is, in fact, an optimist. My findings? You heard it here first: Kill And Kill Again is kung-fu gold.
Well, OK, silver. But for Monotoro it might as well be platinum.
It's obvious he missed his calling: after watching three of the worst horrors ever shot on film, I watched Kill And Kill Again, an eighties kung-fu flick, and realized Montoro as a producer missed his calling. Don't get me wrong, 'derivative' still (as always) applies, and I can't judge whether Montoro's was intentionally satirical – maybe my modern sensibilities mistook an actually genuine attempt at a serious kung-fu movie for a tongue-in-cheek romp – but maybe, just maybe, Montoro (without a miraculous accident) actually turned out exactly the sort of film he wanted to make, and it was actually good.
James Ryan stars as Steve Chase, a world-renowned martial artist who (presumably in the first film) is no stranger to getting dragged into contests of a nature that's decidedly more lethal than your average cage-match. Model/beauty-queen Anneline Kriel plays Kandy Kane – I swear this isn't a skin-flick – who drags Chase on a quest to save her father, who's been abducted by the evil genius Marduk. Together they assemble an A-Team style crew of the usual typecast-oddballs and token-whatever's, who set out to karate-chop and roundhouse-kick their way to Dr. Kane.
Marduk – who's as comically villainous as you'd expect with a comic-book name like that – kidnapped Dr. Kane to work on his latest mastermind scheme for world domination. He's cooked up a potato-based obedience serum, and needs Dr. Kane to perfect it. Seriously, he's taking over the world with potatoes, and if that isn't intentional comedy I don't know what to call it. Marduk's got an entire campus full of brainwashed youths already on the drug, who he's raising as his personal karate army. Once Marduk's plan ripens (heh, get it, because potatoes?) he'll enthrall the entire world, assuming Chase, Kane and their sidekicks don't stop him.
Nothing about this movie, when viewed superficially, should have been enjoyable. It's got a white South African, James Ryan, all but parodying Bruce Lee (I could never figure out whether I was supposed to believe Ryan was actually Asian). The voice-acting sounds like a racist's interpretation of Native American mannerisms. Sexism is blatant, even for an eighties movie, although I'll give Montoro this: Kandy Kane is a far more active heroine than any of his others female leads. She'd critical to the plot, in fact, and gets in a few badass moments herself.
Kung-fu movies have a reputation for being cheesy and over the top; it's an inverse relationship between the realism of the kung-fu, and the awesomeness of the movie, and Kill And Kill Again wisely doesn't deviate. There's an obvious bit of realism beneath the choreography, but their ultimate goal was entertainment rather than believability. It's got everything we've all come to expect from these sorts of martial-arts movies: spinning kicks, backflipping as a valid means of daily transportation, parkour inspired wall-flips, and outright absurdism when it comes to how many (supposedly well-trained) combatants our heroes can fend off and defeat all on their lonesome.
As a matter of fact, Kill And Kill Again broke new cinematic ground, which isn't something I thought I'd ever say about a Montoro production. My jaw literally dropped a couple inches when I saw it. You'll recall the slow-mo spinning-bullet shots in The Matrix, I'm sure; turns out KAKA was the very first instance of that now iconic shot. Even more impressively, they accomplished it all without the modern technology The Matrix and other imitators relied on. A dolly, a camera, some plexiglass and clever lighting were basically all they used for the setup.
Innovation? Montoro? My core beliefs are thoroughly shaken.
Kill And Kill Again is, slow-mo bullet sequence aside, nothing new. It isn't plowing deep into fresh narrative territory; the minimal character development isn't masking any biting social commentary; the cinematography's impressive, but it's an action movie, so I expect nothing less.
But it's fun. It's enjoyable. You can laugh at the over-the-top kung-fu (or karate, whatever it's supposed be). You can dig the eighties nostalgia which is ultimately the genre's hallmark. You can turn your brain off, kick back, and prepare to be entertained with the comfortable knowledge that Kill And Kill Again won't require an iota of your upper-level cognitive function to fully enjoy what it has to offer.
And, like me, you can say you finally watched an enjoyable Montoro film.
Kill or Be Killed was better than this!
GOWBTW27 December 2005
I had no knowledge of a sequel to the movie "Kill or Be Killed". This movie was OK, but it was rather corny than entertaining. The hero of the movie was always at his best, and this bald guy was nothing more than comedy relief. Thus he was rather helpful than hurtful, every movie should have some sort of comedy relief to it. The plot was not bad, and the action was still intact. Steve Chase(James Ryan) needed all the help he could muster. Boy, did he ever! The characters of the movie were great, the villains were a little better in this movie than the first, however it could use a slight improvement though. The only thing this movie has was a humorous ending, it helped relieve the stress from all the action of butt-kicking. Depite of it all, it wasn't all too bad, I wished this movie was better made and better advertised. It would had surpassed the first movie, but it wasn't and to me I wished this movie was advertised like the first. What a pity! The decision is yours to make it a keeper or not. Rating 2 out of 5 stars.
Lots of fun
alex632215 June 2004
When you watch a kung fu movie, are you expecting an intelligent plot, fine acting, and high production values? I hope not, because this movie has a very SILLY plot, lame acting, and it was made for about $100. But it's a lot of fun. The villain has a mind-control serum and a fake beard. Steve Chase assembles his team, Seven Samurai-style, to save the world. The rest of the movie is hilariously cheesy. I used to watch this flick on HBO in the middle of the night when I was a kid, around 1980. It was on all the time. When I founjd it on sale on DVD, I took a chance (these things don't always age so well, ya know?). But it's still GREAT. When it's deadly serious, I laugh, and when the characters crack a joke, it falls flat. KILL AND KILL AGAIN is the Plan 9 of martial arts movies. All humans must see it at least once! Marduk commands it!
Despite the over-inflated running time, we'd still recommend it, because it's just so nutty.
tarbosh2200028 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Steve Chase (Ryan) is still 'The Best' when he returns for this sequel to Kill or Be Killed (1976). This time around, a rich baddie named Wellington Forsyth III has taken over the town of Ironville, South Africa. He's renamed himself Marduk, renamed the town New Babylonia, and he's using some sort of potato extract to turn thousands of people into mindless slaves.
All this comes to the attention of Steve Chase when he's approached by a woman named Kandy Kane (Kriel of Reason to Die fame), and she informs him that her father Horatio Kane (Ramsbottom), a renowned scientist and not David Caruso, has been kidnapped by Marduk and forced to help create the serum used to zombify the population.
Chase's next move is to assemble a team in classic fashion, rounding up his buddies Gypsy Billy (Robinson), Hotdog (Flynn), Gorilla (Gampu), and The Fly (Schmidt). Together, the team invades the compound and attempts to extract Dr. Horatio Kane, but they're going to have to face Marduk's mind controlled Martial Artists. The top man of which is Optimus (Dorie). Will Steve Chase live to kill again...AGAIN?
Kill and Kill Again is a mixture of Martial Arts and broad comedy, but it's more watchable than similar fare such as Catch the Heat (1987) and Hot Potato (1976). There's a lot of comic-bookiness and plenty of outright silliness on display which is entertaining, but not 101 minutes worth of entertaining. If KAKA (that's the abbreviation for Kill and Kill Again) had been about 80 minutes, it could be a new classic. We love a good "assemble a team" movie and we're always up for some off-kilter 80's fun. But the running time is too long. A lot of the talking parrot jokes and other groan-inducing comedy could've been cut. But, on the whole, it's still worth watching, even if it's just to see how influential it is...
Stephen J. Cannell must have seen this movie and it "inspired" him to create the A-Team, which premiered in 1983. Gorilla is like B. A. Baracus, even down to the character trait of being afraid of airplanes. Hotdog wears a similar hat and has a similar demeanor to Howling Mad Murdock. Chase is like Dirk Benedict's Face, etc. At one point, right before they're going to storm the compound, they suggest doing it in teams, with Chase saying, "We're the B Team". We could go on, but there are other comparisons to be made.
What are the odds that the CSI Miami writers would have come up with the name Horatio Kane all on their own? And the creators of Transformers must have liked the name Optimus. Marduk clearly inspired Adam West's Professor Marduk from Maxim Xul (1991), and Marduk's girlfriend Minerva (Wilson) has a short, pink haircut that must have inspired the singer Pink (or P!nk as she sometimes prefers it). A movie highlight comes with a 'Bullet Time' effect that must have inspired the Matrix series, not to mention the Sniper series. So while certain people may make fun of Kill and Kill Again, clearly we're still seeing its influence in the culture.
Kill and Kill Again continues the tradition of projecting the opening credits on people's body parts that was started in the previous film, usually James Ryan's. Ryan is very suave, has a classic 80's mullet, and looks slightly like Billy Drago. While his "Kill" duo may remind viewers of Day of the Panther and Fists of Blood (both 1988), the Jason Blade duo, it's also worth noting that Ryan appeared in Code Name Vengeance (1987), Rage to Kill (1988) and The Last Samurai (1990).
The whole Marduk/mind control plot seems inspired by the Jim Jones incident that occurred in Guyana. But Jim Jones didn't have an odd-looking pasted-on beard. So far as we know. It may also remind you of the 'leader' episode of The Simpsons. He even forces half of his assembled flock to be shirtless men, in what may be the largest shirts vs. Skins match of all time. Each of the 'assemble a team' moments comes with its own fight scene, and of course there's a barfight as well. The whole thing is perfect for drive-ins.
Speaking of the barfight scene, the film was cut in the UK by 73 seconds on its initial release, and it was probably this scene. Why? Because James Ryan dares to use nunchuks. The BBFC hates nunchuks. There are also Raphael-style sais in another scene. Could this have influenced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well?
In the end, we can see that director Ivan Hall improved a lot since Vengeance Cops (1971). Kill and Kill Again is a fun and ridiculous ride, but the ride is too long. Despite the over-inflated running time, we'd still recommend it, because it's just so nutty.
All this comes to the attention of Steve Chase when he's approached by a woman named Kandy Kane (Kriel of Reason to Die fame), and she informs him that her father Horatio Kane (Ramsbottom), a renowned scientist and not David Caruso, has been kidnapped by Marduk and forced to help create the serum used to zombify the population.
Chase's next move is to assemble a team in classic fashion, rounding up his buddies Gypsy Billy (Robinson), Hotdog (Flynn), Gorilla (Gampu), and The Fly (Schmidt). Together, the team invades the compound and attempts to extract Dr. Horatio Kane, but they're going to have to face Marduk's mind controlled Martial Artists. The top man of which is Optimus (Dorie). Will Steve Chase live to kill again...AGAIN?
Kill and Kill Again is a mixture of Martial Arts and broad comedy, but it's more watchable than similar fare such as Catch the Heat (1987) and Hot Potato (1976). There's a lot of comic-bookiness and plenty of outright silliness on display which is entertaining, but not 101 minutes worth of entertaining. If KAKA (that's the abbreviation for Kill and Kill Again) had been about 80 minutes, it could be a new classic. We love a good "assemble a team" movie and we're always up for some off-kilter 80's fun. But the running time is too long. A lot of the talking parrot jokes and other groan-inducing comedy could've been cut. But, on the whole, it's still worth watching, even if it's just to see how influential it is...
Stephen J. Cannell must have seen this movie and it "inspired" him to create the A-Team, which premiered in 1983. Gorilla is like B. A. Baracus, even down to the character trait of being afraid of airplanes. Hotdog wears a similar hat and has a similar demeanor to Howling Mad Murdock. Chase is like Dirk Benedict's Face, etc. At one point, right before they're going to storm the compound, they suggest doing it in teams, with Chase saying, "We're the B Team". We could go on, but there are other comparisons to be made.
What are the odds that the CSI Miami writers would have come up with the name Horatio Kane all on their own? And the creators of Transformers must have liked the name Optimus. Marduk clearly inspired Adam West's Professor Marduk from Maxim Xul (1991), and Marduk's girlfriend Minerva (Wilson) has a short, pink haircut that must have inspired the singer Pink (or P!nk as she sometimes prefers it). A movie highlight comes with a 'Bullet Time' effect that must have inspired the Matrix series, not to mention the Sniper series. So while certain people may make fun of Kill and Kill Again, clearly we're still seeing its influence in the culture.
Kill and Kill Again continues the tradition of projecting the opening credits on people's body parts that was started in the previous film, usually James Ryan's. Ryan is very suave, has a classic 80's mullet, and looks slightly like Billy Drago. While his "Kill" duo may remind viewers of Day of the Panther and Fists of Blood (both 1988), the Jason Blade duo, it's also worth noting that Ryan appeared in Code Name Vengeance (1987), Rage to Kill (1988) and The Last Samurai (1990).
The whole Marduk/mind control plot seems inspired by the Jim Jones incident that occurred in Guyana. But Jim Jones didn't have an odd-looking pasted-on beard. So far as we know. It may also remind you of the 'leader' episode of The Simpsons. He even forces half of his assembled flock to be shirtless men, in what may be the largest shirts vs. Skins match of all time. Each of the 'assemble a team' moments comes with its own fight scene, and of course there's a barfight as well. The whole thing is perfect for drive-ins.
Speaking of the barfight scene, the film was cut in the UK by 73 seconds on its initial release, and it was probably this scene. Why? Because James Ryan dares to use nunchuks. The BBFC hates nunchuks. There are also Raphael-style sais in another scene. Could this have influenced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well?
In the end, we can see that director Ivan Hall improved a lot since Vengeance Cops (1971). Kill and Kill Again is a fun and ridiculous ride, but the ride is too long. Despite the over-inflated running time, we'd still recommend it, because it's just so nutty.
The most esteemed judges in martial arts are fat white men?
athies29 May 2017
That kick was no where near the target. Horrible camera angle.
Imported from what seems to be an island is not impressive. It's an island, everything is imported.
This guy looks like Chachi.
"Fuel from potatoes" sounds hilarious.
Mind control potato extract! Diabolical! I quit! vs I fired you! stupid argument. Take the firing! You'll get severance.
Cheap mud hug gag.
Sweeping his van hovel.
That was the slowest back-hand chop of all time.
Needless pushing a woman aside. Real nice.
Carrot Top's Southern aunt.
That helicopter looks like a go-cart.
There it is. The whole reason I heard about this movie a character named Hot Dog.
You know Kandy is going to sneak along.
How observant. She was sitting there all along.
I'd love to see a spin-off... Hot Dog and The Fly.
Supervised recreational activity... alternating days... is this gym class? Which way to the bar (fight)? What bar keeps all those lit candles? That don't mix with drunk fools.
This guy is his horrible. A few sweet lines and a lick on her shoulder and she's all over you. Yick.
Off potatoes forever! Don't say it Hot Dog! That means no more fries!! So far I haven't seen anyone killed let alone killed a second time.
The dreaded #4 outhouse.
Action floor roll.
Marduk has a horrible fake beard.
A sudden change of background during a conversation.
I expected Hot Dog to be more of a show off.
A kick-up instead of a kip-up.
No wasted movement huh? He just did multiple meaningless flips.
Hold the stem or you'll warm the wine! Power Blue T-Shirt Gang attack!!!!!
Imported from what seems to be an island is not impressive. It's an island, everything is imported.
This guy looks like Chachi.
"Fuel from potatoes" sounds hilarious.
Mind control potato extract! Diabolical! I quit! vs I fired you! stupid argument. Take the firing! You'll get severance.
Cheap mud hug gag.
Sweeping his van hovel.
That was the slowest back-hand chop of all time.
Needless pushing a woman aside. Real nice.
Carrot Top's Southern aunt.
That helicopter looks like a go-cart.
There it is. The whole reason I heard about this movie a character named Hot Dog.
You know Kandy is going to sneak along.
How observant. She was sitting there all along.
I'd love to see a spin-off... Hot Dog and The Fly.
Supervised recreational activity... alternating days... is this gym class? Which way to the bar (fight)? What bar keeps all those lit candles? That don't mix with drunk fools.
This guy is his horrible. A few sweet lines and a lick on her shoulder and she's all over you. Yick.
Off potatoes forever! Don't say it Hot Dog! That means no more fries!! So far I haven't seen anyone killed let alone killed a second time.
The dreaded #4 outhouse.
Action floor roll.
Marduk has a horrible fake beard.
A sudden change of background during a conversation.
I expected Hot Dog to be more of a show off.
A kick-up instead of a kip-up.
No wasted movement huh? He just did multiple meaningless flips.
Hold the stem or you'll warm the wine! Power Blue T-Shirt Gang attack!!!!!
Wow, this is bad.
sangityman24 July 2000
This film is on the borderline of being so bad that it is almost worth watching, if only just to laugh at it. It attempts to be a comedy with many one-liners that fall completely flat. The martial arts choreography is stiff and extremely staged looking. The story is just plain ridiculous. The star shows some potential given the right material, but there is very little of that for him to work with. A handful of skillfully executed karate techniques are about the only thing this film has going for it.
Another disappointing US martial arts film
Leofwine_draca7 August 2017
Warning: Spoilers
KILL AND KILL AGAIN is one of those American martial arts films made during the 1970s and 1980s which pale into insignificance when compared to their rival productions being made in Hong Kong. This one's another tournament flick in which a bunch of old and evil white men create a secret tournament for the world's top karate fighters; an ENTER THE DRAGON rip-off, in other words. Our improbably-named heroine, Kandy Kane, enlists the help of a top fighter to go undercover and break the criminal gang; the story goes from there. This is very much a nothing special sort of film, with criminally bad fight choreography which makes the fighters look unskilled and out of shape; none of the hits come remotely close to hitting, and there's a distinct lack of excitement and involvement on the viewer's part throughout.
I found the perfect home for this movie
trax2193-126 November 2020
Wow
BandSAboutMovies6 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Kill and Kill Again is a sequel to the film Kill or Be Killed and tells another adventure of Steve Chase (James Ryan), a secret agent martial artist who has been hired by Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel, whose life should be a movie, between having singer Richard Loring writing the song "Sweet Anneline" about her, followed by nude photos she took for his friend Roy Hilligenn being leaked - in 1977 - as well as being present when boyfriend Henke Pistorius - father of Oscar Pistorius, the legless South African athlete who would shoot and kill his girlfriend - shot himself while cleaning his pistol, as well as a singer and Playboy South Africa cover girl, as well as Miss South Africa 1974 and was later crowned Miss World 1974) to find her father Dr. Horatio Kane (John Ramsbottom), a scientist who has learned how to control minds while trying to turn potatoes into an energy source.
Yes, if you thought Kill and Kill Again would be normal, oh no. Oh no.
The government gives Steve $5 million dollars to pick his own team of super agents, which includes former martial arts champion Gypsy Billy (Norman Robinson), the mystic mystery man who only answers to The Fly (Stan Schmidt, a South African master of Shotokan karate), the goofball Hot Dog (Bill Flynn) who when we first meet him is challenging men to stand in a room while he shoots bullets at them and the former pro wrestler and now construction worker gorilla (Ken Gampu, King Solomon's Mines).
They're sent to stop Wellington Forsyth III, a billionaire who has now become Marduk (Michael Mayer), who has taken over the town of Ironville and is looking to create an army of warriors to take over the world. He has wanted Steve to come to challenge his champion, The Optimus (Eddie Dori), an unstoppable fighter.
Yes, in the world of South African martial arts, white men are the greatest fighters in the world.
In the commentary track for this movie, James Ryan said that the third film would have been called Most Dangerous Man and had him appear opposite Sharon Stone. However, FVI went out of business and he headed back to South Africa.
This comes from the same director, Ivan Hall, and was written by John Crowther, who also wrote The Evil That Men Do, Missing In Action and Hands of Steel.
Yes, if you thought Kill and Kill Again would be normal, oh no. Oh no.
The government gives Steve $5 million dollars to pick his own team of super agents, which includes former martial arts champion Gypsy Billy (Norman Robinson), the mystic mystery man who only answers to The Fly (Stan Schmidt, a South African master of Shotokan karate), the goofball Hot Dog (Bill Flynn) who when we first meet him is challenging men to stand in a room while he shoots bullets at them and the former pro wrestler and now construction worker gorilla (Ken Gampu, King Solomon's Mines).
They're sent to stop Wellington Forsyth III, a billionaire who has now become Marduk (Michael Mayer), who has taken over the town of Ironville and is looking to create an army of warriors to take over the world. He has wanted Steve to come to challenge his champion, The Optimus (Eddie Dori), an unstoppable fighter.
Yes, in the world of South African martial arts, white men are the greatest fighters in the world.
In the commentary track for this movie, James Ryan said that the third film would have been called Most Dangerous Man and had him appear opposite Sharon Stone. However, FVI went out of business and he headed back to South Africa.
This comes from the same director, Ivan Hall, and was written by John Crowther, who also wrote The Evil That Men Do, Missing In Action and Hands of Steel.
Hokey and silly
jellopuke8 January 2021
This is a much hokier sequel that can be fun, even though it occasionally veers into a too cartoonish mould. The music gets wacky and the plot is totally ridiculous, but there's enough karate to tide you over. So-so movie.
Love that beard!
bensonmum223 July 2019
The quick pitch: Martial arts master Steve Chase is hired to rescue an important scientist who has been kidnapped for his potato-to-fuel formula. His chemical process also produces a mind-control drug that the evil Marduk intends to use for world domination. (What kind of potatoes do they grow in South Africa?)
Until I ran across Kill and Kill Again, I had no idea that a South African martial arts movie was a thing. After watching this one, if there are more, I see why they're not very well known. Overall, Kill and Kill Again is not really a very good movie. Acting, special effects, editing, and much of the script come straight from the bottom of the proverbial barrel. Two things that especially annoyed me, however, were (1) the lame, simplistic final act and (2) the uber slow-paced fight choreography.
That's not to say that Kill and Kill Again is all bad. There is quite a bit of fun to be had - even if some of it might be an unintentional laugh or two. The scenes where Chase is putting his band together are a highlight. Tug-of-war with a guy named Gorilla, levitation practice with the Fly, and junkyard fights with pal Gypsy Billy - it might be stupid fun, but it's still fun. And then there's chief baddie Marduk - he's not really so menacing as he is ridiculous looking. That beard he wears looked like something you'd find after Halloween in a dollar store clearance bin. Too funny.
4/10
Until I ran across Kill and Kill Again, I had no idea that a South African martial arts movie was a thing. After watching this one, if there are more, I see why they're not very well known. Overall, Kill and Kill Again is not really a very good movie. Acting, special effects, editing, and much of the script come straight from the bottom of the proverbial barrel. Two things that especially annoyed me, however, were (1) the lame, simplistic final act and (2) the uber slow-paced fight choreography.
That's not to say that Kill and Kill Again is all bad. There is quite a bit of fun to be had - even if some of it might be an unintentional laugh or two. The scenes where Chase is putting his band together are a highlight. Tug-of-war with a guy named Gorilla, levitation practice with the Fly, and junkyard fights with pal Gypsy Billy - it might be stupid fun, but it's still fun. And then there's chief baddie Marduk - he's not really so menacing as he is ridiculous looking. That beard he wears looked like something you'd find after Halloween in a dollar store clearance bin. Too funny.
4/10
Amusing characters despite the karate fights not as thrilling as the first movie
jordondave-2808519 June 2023
(1981) Kill and Kill Again
MARTIAL ARTS ACTION
The second of two martial art movies, James Ryan starred with director Ivan Hall, it has the return of Steve Chase character accepting a trophy, except that he is beating some foes harassing a blond, Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel). It turns out Kandy Kane intentionally wanted to meet Steve Chase for the intention of using him for his services. For the sum of five million dollars Kandy and her business associates employ him for the purpose of a saving her scientist father, Dr. Horatio Kane (John Ramsbottom) as he is kidnapped and held against his will as he has the formula to exchange fuel from potatoes. At the same time, he also stumbled onto another formula that can turn people to obey a billionaire tyrant named Marduk (Michael Mayer) against their own will. And in one of Steve's conditions besides the five million dollar pay is to allow him to assemble his own team. And it is the same team who fought alongside with him in past missions, a couple of karate martial artists nickname "The Fly (Stan Schmidt)" and "Gypsy Billy (Norman Robinson)", a tall strongman named "Gorilla (Ken Gampu)", and then there's "Hotdog (Bill Flynn)"
It is not as good as the first as there is more ridiculousness such as levitation and so forth... along with the fight sequences, despite both movies directed by the same director. In this movie the karate fights are less convincing and not as thrilling as the previous film "Kill or Be Killed" for there are times they barely even touch. But as a result of the amusing dialogue exchanges and unique approach such as the pink hair dyed, girl Minerva (Marloe Scott Wilson) calling Marduck different nicknames all throughout, from calling him Popsicle to Dumpling to name a few, the movie still has a soft side.
The second of two martial art movies, James Ryan starred with director Ivan Hall, it has the return of Steve Chase character accepting a trophy, except that he is beating some foes harassing a blond, Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel). It turns out Kandy Kane intentionally wanted to meet Steve Chase for the intention of using him for his services. For the sum of five million dollars Kandy and her business associates employ him for the purpose of a saving her scientist father, Dr. Horatio Kane (John Ramsbottom) as he is kidnapped and held against his will as he has the formula to exchange fuel from potatoes. At the same time, he also stumbled onto another formula that can turn people to obey a billionaire tyrant named Marduk (Michael Mayer) against their own will. And in one of Steve's conditions besides the five million dollar pay is to allow him to assemble his own team. And it is the same team who fought alongside with him in past missions, a couple of karate martial artists nickname "The Fly (Stan Schmidt)" and "Gypsy Billy (Norman Robinson)", a tall strongman named "Gorilla (Ken Gampu)", and then there's "Hotdog (Bill Flynn)"
It is not as good as the first as there is more ridiculousness such as levitation and so forth... along with the fight sequences, despite both movies directed by the same director. In this movie the karate fights are less convincing and not as thrilling as the previous film "Kill or Be Killed" for there are times they barely even touch. But as a result of the amusing dialogue exchanges and unique approach such as the pink hair dyed, girl Minerva (Marloe Scott Wilson) calling Marduck different nicknames all throughout, from calling him Popsicle to Dumpling to name a few, the movie still has a soft side.
Racist, Sexist, Bad Acting, and Horrible Cast
willandcharlenebrown18 December 2020
A martial arts hit, that warrants viewing for action fans, that kicks left, right, and centre
PeterMitchell-506-56436429 April 2013
For all you martial arts fans out there, if you haven't vide'd this one, put it on your list. James Ryan, a martial arts star in the eighties, came and went, his real only other main stream film being Kill Or Be Killed, which had much lesser action. Actually, at the end of the preview of the latter, underneath it's title, reads: The greatest martial film ever made. Absolute bologne. The action in this, comes thick and fast, we're literally thrown into it, at the beginning. This one will surprise you. It has a good story too. The likable Ryan plays a guy called Steve Chase, who rounds up a band of his old and deadly acquaintances, some real wild characters. Sounds like Kill Squad right, or may'be Sidaris's smart '79' hit, Seven. Not quite. A beautiful young girl (Kriel-Reason To Die) implores Chase and his selected few to snatch her father from a camp, where he has been brainwashed into performing experiments on a legion of other prisoners, who become programmed to kill. So Ryan and his boys have got their work, cut out for them. Love it. Meanwhile as the viewer, just indulge in huge chunks of action, but wait, we've got one hell of femme fatale with white spiked hair who's a hoot, thanks to some good punchy, dialogue, in a script you don't expect to be this good. You'll love the nickname she'll gives her master, to his utter loathing. Our hunky Ryan was something of a fascination to me, in a film here that stands alone. He was soon forgotten, but one wonders whatever happened to him.
Love this film and the moves they make
Peanut713925 November 2018
Over-all this is one of my all time favorite karate films of all times. The story is good and the moves are even better. Worth the watch. Thanks Steve, Gorilla, Gypsy, The Fly and Hotdog. You made this watch worth while.
News about "Kill And Kill Again" and James Ryan..
taikrige26 June 2008
Yes Hi "Kill Or be Killed." - Sorry to only answer your posting now, but I've only recently become aware of all this 'stuff' on "Kill and Kill Again," on which I was the cinematographer and helped get the martial artists for the movie, since i knew them all.... You are right. A lot of people preferred the first film also with James Ryan as Steve Chase in "Kill and Kill Again", but I must tell you that the box-office figures tell a very different story...in fact, depending on how old you are, you might remember a film made by Bo Derek's husband John Derek called "10" ...a 'tits and bums' vehicle to show off the many charms of his lovely wife that did very well at the box-office and was released the same year as "Kill and Kill Again'. Well, believe it or not, "Kill and Kill Again" made more money than "10". Much more money....I have the figures somewhere......Anyhow both these movies have gone into the memories and archives of "Chop Suie' or karate pot-boilers.....One of the many things I admire about James Ryan is that after these two big successes for him in the USA, he was offered many more roles like that and could of happily gone on making them ad nauseum, going for the money and fame. But he declined....went back to South Africa to become one of SA's best male leads in theater and TV /cinema...a 'big up' for Steve Chase ........ tai krige sasc.
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