No Contest II (1997)

User Rating:

4.3/10   

Director:

Paul Lynch

Writers:

Richard Beattie (writer)
Michael Stokes (story)

Release Date:

8 November 1997 (Japan)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

She's the right woman in the wrong place at the wrong time... again!

Plot:

Sharon Bell is back, this time she must stop a terrorist plot to smuggle Nazi nerve gas. |

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Lance Henriksen	...	Eric Dane / Erich Dengler
Shannon Tweed	...	Sharon Bell
Bruce Payne	...	Jack Terry
Jayne Heitmeyer	...	Bobbi Bell
Jeffrey Max Nicholls	...	Steven Ivory
Joseph Griffin	...	Reggie
David Keeley	...	Ritter
Kevin Jubinville	...	Falco
Sky Gilbert	...	Beagle
Fiona Highet	...	Lisette
Barbara Chilcott	...	Mrs. Holman
Falconer Abraham	...	Jarvis
Hamish McEwan	...	Binsey
Sophie Simmons	...	Little Girl Rose
Tommy Chang	...	Kidnapper (as Thomas P. Chang)

Also Known As:

Face the Evil
No Contest II: Access Denied (USA) (TV title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and language.

Runtime:

Germany:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

New Zealand:R18 | Australia:MA | Germany:18 (video premiere) | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | USA:R

Company:

Norstar Entertainment

Movie Connections:

Follows No Contest (1994)

Nowhere To Run Nowhere to Hide

****SPOILERS**** Like in the first "No Contest" Sharon Bell, Shannon Tweed, saves the day with her fancy foot-work and a number of swings from a steel pole in this outrageous action movie set inside a locked museum with her little sister Bobbie,Janye Heitmeyer,the museum curator lending a hand.

There's an interesting sidelight to the movie between the two sisters and why Sharon is so hard and unfeeling when it comes to little Bobbie which stems from the two girls childhood. Bobbie finds that out from Sharon at the end of the film which was nicely done.

Sharon filming her latest action movie at the Hollman Museum where a gang of art thieves take over the place and hold everyone hostage. Lead by world renowned art collector Eric Dane, Lance Henriksen, who in reality turns out to be Eric Dengler the son of the Berlin Museums, during the time of Hitler, curator and fanatical Nazi Manferd Dengler.

The film deals with a number of valuable artifacts looted by the Nazis during WWII that in return were stolen by the Red Army at the end of the war. Later after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 the artifacts were smuggled out of Russia by Dengler to the USA and brought to the Hollman Museum gallery.

You begin to wonder why Dangler would want to steal the very expensive items that he already had in the first place? Is he crazy? Locked in the museum with only an identification card by Bobbi able to unlock the doors Dangler for some insane reason activates a globe-like bomb with a secret nerve gas developed by Nazi Germany. This unusual device can not only kill everybody in the museum but burn the sheet that has the formula for an antidote to it? now you know he's crazy.

Sharon who escaped and hid from Dangler and his hoods takes out Dangler's girlfriend Lisette, Fiona Highet, in what looked like a hall of balloons, not mirrors. The fast swinging Sharon has it out with the powerful but a little bit off-the-wall Dangler associate and fellow thief Falco, Kevin Jubinville,in about a half dozen battles that took up the entire movie.

With time running out and the nerve-gas bomb about to explode Sharon confronts Dengler who's holding her movie director Jack, Bruce Payne, hostage on the main exhibition floor. With her having the card to open the door to save everyone that's still left alive by getting out of the place before the bomb explodes.

Nowhere as good as the original "No Contest" but you have to say that Shannon Tweed is some knock-out. The villain in the film Lance Henriksen is a far better actor the the villain of the previous "No Contest" Andrew Dice Clay. Even though he's nowhere as funny, intentionally or unintentionally, as the famous Diceman.

What I thought was supposed to be the highlight of the movie the final confrontation between Sharon and Dangler was a bit disappointing. Dangler gets locked in an exhibit air-tight glass enclosure and i vaporized by the exploding nerve-gas bomb. The poor guy was out of bullets so he was not even able to blow his brains out before he disintegrated.