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STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits Daniel Bernhardt returns as John Keller? (I thought he'd been playing a thief named Alex?!?) a cop who participates in illegally organized fights, who is sent undercover to death row to track down where some inmates lined up for execution have disappeared to. Here he discovers a labyrinth world where inmates compete in fights for the sick amusement of the senior warden and his cronies and the true explanation for the disappearances...As with the last Bloodsport film I watched, I was just startled by how alike Bernhardt is to the original's Jean Claude Van Damme, in terms of accent, appearance, even fashion sense. Like his predecessor, I suppose he does have a certain presence to him as an action star, but he is about the only diverting thing in this pitiful drivel, which had me in hoots every time I saw that Caesar guy in his palace with all those beautiful women around him with his organized fights (obviously a reference to the real Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas!), as well as Derek McGraph's ridiculous performance as the warden. The camera style is a total mess as well, zooming too closely in on the characters in the particular scenes and cutting out all the scenery around them. Throw into the equation an awful, stupid, meandering plot and, like the others before it (only much more so!) this has only the cool martial arts to see it through. *
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