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  Review by Daxtreme ★★ 3

  Lethal Panther: Made by Godfrey Ho and somehow it slays. Trash of the highest tier.

  Lethal Panther 2: Made by someone else, and it's nonsensical horseshit that, yet, looks exactly like a Godfrey Ho cut & paste movie.

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  Stunts - 83/100 | I can't believe they're ordering people to almost get killed on camera for our enjoyment and yet they don't even know how to edit a movie. Like, we're talking about Editing 101 classes here. Beginner's course. This is worse than a student film… but with lots more people who are willing to risk their lives filming it. You'll never find a more blatantly rushed filmmaking process than cheap Philippines-based…

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  Review by SubToretto ★★★★ 2

  When your opening action scene is such an abundance of gunfire, explosions and wire-jumping mayhem that makes the viewer question if the film had somehow skipped to the finale; you know you’re in for a bonkers good time.

  I actually managed to follow this story-wise for a good amount of time, but then they keep adding more characters, characters that seem to be secondary ones turn out to main players but in a messy way not a cool reveal like you’d find in a well-written action film.

  However, none of that matters. This is like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Machinegun and it is mind-meltingly glorious. The editing is almost as rapid-fire as the bullets, accentuating the action and hypnotizing you into…

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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★

  Missing a lot of the things one normally looks for in the art of cinema: plot comprehensibility, memorable characterization, acting, and the basic connective tissue that holds scenes and the sequences within them together. But while Lethal Panther sacrificed those things for the sake of a vibe that effectively recalled John Woo’s The Killer, when it wasn’t busy being a full-on softcore porn film at least, Lethal Panther 2 is after something much more tangible: the visceral thrill of guns firing, explosions exploding, cars flipping, and stunt people flying through the air in improbable and exceedingly dangerous ways.

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  Review by glimmerman96 3

  Lethal Panther 2 also. Hat natürlich nich mal ansatzweise was mit Lethal Panther zu tun. Wer hätt's gedacht. Ich bin viel mehr davon fasziniert, wie ein Film gleichzeitig so scheiße und so geil sein kann. Der Film beginnt mit einer übel übertriebenen Schießerei. Da wird geballert was die Uzi her gibt. Uzi und Sturmgewehr sind übrigens ne tolle Kombi. Dazu zeigt Cynthia Luster direkt schon mal wie geil sie Fressen eintreten kann. Die ganzen bösen Henchmen die da weggeballert werden, sehen dabei alle aus als wären sie von der Straße weggecastet worden und hätten einfach ihre normalen Klamotten anbehalten (aber nix toppt für mich bisher das Garfield T-Shirt aus Eine Frau sieht rot). Dazu gibt's absurdes Wire Work, bei dem…

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  Review by Wonggifs ★★★½ 2

  The first hour of this chugs along, with truly terrible drama punctuated by crazy action scenes that, while in theory taking place on planet Earth, adhere to rules of gravity that must only exist on the moon or in the Matrix. It must have something to do with the the Philippines being close to the Equator or something.

  There's a bunch of stuff with a boring cop, and some other stuff with Yukari Oshima and Sharon Kwok that sometimes seems like it was from a different movie. It might well be, because this has Godfrey ho's fingerprints all over it.

  I was going to say that this wasn't worth watching, but holy shit, the last 20 minutes of this are…

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  Review by Don Anelli ★★★★

  What initially begins as an explosive, shoot-em-up Action film with a spectacular opening filled with the usual, outrageous stunts associated with the HK action scene before delving into a lame drama about the cop being consumed with guilt over the shooting incident and taking up residence with the women and their families, which is pretty dull and boring since it's so cliché and completely lacking in action before it picks up fantastically for the finale. One of the more impressive shoot-outs in the genre's history, completely with several fine hand-to-hand fights that are perfectly mixed in with the action and makes for a blast to finish, and while it's middle segments are too drama filled, the action scenes in there are just a blast, with a spectacular kung-fu fight, several fine car chases and a glorious gun-fight mixed into the proceedings to help it along, making it a flawed but watchable affair.

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  Review by BrianNaas ★★½ 7

  Dubbed - with the usual caveats - the dubbing is bad and you never know how the dubbed version compares to the original. This version was put out by Tai Seng way back.

  When I watch one of these low budget Philippine films starring Yukari Oshima (credited as Cynthia Luster), I come in with low expectations. And they are usually met or exceeded. All I am really hoping for is that Yukari has some real screen time, some good action scenes and doesn’t disappear for most of the film. At least in those terms, this film exceeds that. Yukari is an Interpol agent and is working with the Philippine cops to track down and bust an international gang of Japanese…

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  Review by Jesse Balzer ★★★½

  Sloppy, unprofessional, powerfully irresponsible, violently idiotic, but somehow beautiful!

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  Review by Invincible Asia ★★★½

  Yukari Ôshima - the unsung martial arts badass of Hong Kong cinema. Gosh, the kicks she pulls off here are divine and put so many of her compadres to shame.

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  Review by hotsake ★★★

  Now I did have to watch this full screen and with an English Dub so my overall score will be adjusted to account for this. This movie has nothing to do with the first Lethal Panther. The movie starts off with a brief English dubbed set up before abruptly shifting to a long drawn out gunfight the has choppy editing, annoying background music and weird sound effects, there is a sloppiness to the whole action set piece, from the a fore mentioned choppy editing, to the bizarre camera angles and strange use of wire work. So far this already seems to be a step down from the first film. Okay so what the fuck was with the guy eating the…

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  Review by Nick Feldman ★★

  I regret to inform you that this movie sucks.

  Yukari Ôshima is still a one-of-one shoulda-been megastar, with the kind of impossible natural charisma even a terrible dub actress can't damage, but she's really not in the movie enough to save it. Sharon Kwok is also talented, but she's in it even less.

  Most of the movie Edu Manzano's boring edgelord cop, and he's just godawful. His character is dull, his performance is worse, and his dub actor sounds like he knows it. There are zero good scenes in the movie about him, but most of the scenes are about him, which is doubly frustrating since Lethal Panther 1 was one of the relatively few Girls with Guns pictures that…

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  Review by BillyJarrett ★★★★★

  This movie is held together by duct tape and paper clips, wholesale stealing of the music from the OG TERMINATOR, awful awful drama in between some of the gnarliest irresponsible action I’ve seen in a minute. Gets my highest recommendation