Starring - Cliff Twemlow (The Benny Hill Show, Dead of Night), Terrence Hardiman (The Demon Headmaster, Doctor Who), and Brett Sinclair (Target Eve Island, Killer Waiting)
Release Date - 1991
Genre - Action
Tagline - "Beyond the law. Beyond redemption. Beyond Vengeance"
Format - Bluray (Personal Collection) (Screener)
Rating (out of 5):
I've worked through dozens of box sets and collections over the years and very few offered up such a strange and interesting catalogue of films as this set has from Severin under their Intervision label. These films are not entertaining, at least not in a traditional sense, but I've really enjoyed watching them. They are a type of bad that doesn't necessarily make them "so bad they are good." It's more like a train or car wreck. You can't look away no matter how hard you try. However, one film in the set was surprisingly entertaining and that was the crime thriller G.B.H. I knew there was a sequel to the film in this set but it wasn't paired with the original film. I decided to watch the movies in the order in which they were in the set and that took me some time to get to the sequel. Sadly, it was not as enjoyable as the first film.
The film follows the man from the first film that didn't actually die at the end. Instead, he survives that his niece was sex trafficked and forced into under age adult films where she eventually takes her own life. He sets out to bring the organization down that did this to her.
I had no idea where a sequel to the first G.B.H. was going to take me but I had high hopes for it. However, it was quickly evident that the film had no idea where it was going either. I wanted to like this one but the lack of plot and complete disregard for the ending of the first film makes this one another rough watch which seems to be the theme with these films. The acting in this one is more of the same. We have some super cliched characters that have no originality to them brought to life with stiff performances and emotionless dialogue. With that being said, this is the kind of acting that I dig with cheap action flicks and found myself somewhat enjoying the performances even if it was for unintentional humor. The story for this one is an interesting idea wrapped in a lot of bloated scenes that go absolutely nowhere. The movie tries to Death Wish it's way into a serious gritty action film around rape and so on but that's as far as they were willing to write it. We then follow that up with random death scenes with very little pay off or explanation as to why. It's implied that those being murdered had something to do with the sex trafficking but it never fully explains. Having a finished story would have went so much further with this one. Finally, the film has some gun deaths and a lot of stuff happening off camera but that's about it. Nothing memorable or original happening in this regard. Overall, G.B.H. 2 borrows heavily from the Death Wish films but forgets that there is more to it than just copying someone's homework. It fails to deliver on anything other than some corny acting. Skip it.
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