Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

BrickNash China O' Brien II picks up where the first film left off and it's almost literally more of the same which means TV movie quality plot and acting interspersed with some martial arts action.As a film it's certainly not the worst ever made and it's about as solidly entertaining as any episode of Columbo or Walker Texas Ranger. As with the first one where the film excels is the fight scenes which are dynamic and very well choreographed with some brilliant OTT sound effects.The film's plot centres around some bog standard pap about an escaped convict terrorising the town and in that it makes some mistakes. As with the first film, the main bad guy is an older dude with no fighting skills whatsoever and so there is really no final threat or showdown, just a big free for all brawl involving loads of people.It would have been nice to have China go up against another female martial artist hench(wo)man or even a female villain with fighting skills. Even a bog standard martial arts villain would have done but alas no.Still in saying that, watching China beat the s-h-i-t out of endless waves of plaid shirted goons is satisfying enough although the story:fight ratio is a little off in favour of the "boring" bits.Still, as thin as the plot is it's executed well enough to keep the pace going and fans won't be disappointed by the highly satisfying action one bit. One for the collection!

leonardconstantin61 I've watched China O'Brien recently and i was really disappointed by how they managed the movie, by the vision of the director and the screenplay. I thought that being directed by director Robert Clouse the movie it will be really awesome but i was wrong.Richard Norton has destroyed the movie with his accent and the fights aren't that good because the opponents are really weak. The second movie has a better story in my opinion&better fights (because there are decent opponents to Cynthia&her fellas) but that's it. So if the first movie deserved 5/10, the second movie deserved 7/10 because of the two major improvements. Unfortunately Richard Norton appears in part two too. The oponents are: Billy Blanks,Toshishiro Obata,the Spanish guy(who fights only with his legs) from Jean Claude Van- Damme's Double Impact and others. So the movie is good enough if you are interested to see the beautiful Cynthia Rothrock fighting with many guys in the second part of the movie&for the villains that appears on the end of this film.This is one of her best US movie besides Guardian Angel&Fast Getaway.

ebiros2 Same thing I've said for China O'Brien applies to China O'Brien 2. They should have hired the guy who did the choreography for "Inspector Wears Skirts" for this movie, and upped the action to that level.Made by Golden Harvest, and produced, and directed by American producer and director, China O'Brien was in the perfect spot to take advantage of best from both worlds. Unfortunately, Raymond Chow probably didn't want to put in the budget to make this into a first class movie.It could have been like "So Close" if China O'Brien character was bit more edgier, but this is a product of the '80s, so edginess was not part of movie making. She kind of looks too wholesome that takes away from her sex appeal, and also lowers the tension of the movie.The producers failed to produce Cynthia Rothrock properly. She could have done lot better in these movies.

hershiser2 As long as you go into this movie knowing that it's terrible: bad acting, bad "effects," bad story, bad... everything, then you'll love it. Though this one isn't as good/bad as its predecessor, it's definitely good for a handful of laughs. Also, the drunker you get, the better the movie gets... have some wine with the movie's cheese.