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- For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". At the Hunter's Point Raceway, Jack confronts Tyrone Burroughs and Arthur Brock. Jack kills Brock in self defense, but Burroughs escapes, and Jack is in danger of going to prison because Brock's gun can't be found. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day. Jack tries to convince Reggie to help him clear his name and find the Ice Man, but Reggie says he won't help unless Jack gives Reggie the $500,000 that Jack has been holding on to for Reggie. Jack refuses to give Reggie the money unless Reggie helps him. After the bus that is transporting Reggie away from the prison is forced to crash by two bikers and Jack gets shot by the same two bikers, Jack forces Reggie to help him by having the hospital release Reggie into his custody. Reggie recognized one of the bikers as Richard "Cherry" Ganz, the brother of Albert Ganz, the escaped convict Jack killed years ago. Jack got shot because Cherry wants revenge for Albert's death, and Cherry and his partner Willie Hickok are the hitmen who have been hired to kill Reggie. Burroughs, who works for the Ice Man, was trying to hire Brock as insurance, just in case Cherry and Hickok fail. Blake Wilson, the head of the Internal Affairs division, obviously doesn't like Jack, because Wilson will stop at nothing to prosecute Jack for manslaughter in Brock's death, and it turns out that the Ice Man put a price on Reggie's head because Reggie knows who the Ice Man is someone Jack never expected it to be.
- Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond--this time, to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.
- The violence even more excessive, the plot even thinner, and the laughs even fewer, as cop Nolte is again forced to turn to con Murphy, just being released from eight years in prison, to crack another case, keep his own ass out of prison, and try to save his career.<br/><br/>All of the dialogue is exposition, spelling out to the audience what little is going on, and some of it is even taken verbatim from the earlier film, as the filmmakers apparently play the first film's soundtrack album, and while glass shatters seemingly endlessly. When this is not recycling its predecessor's soundtrack album, there is a curious choice of country music heard in the background.<br/><br/>I couldn't even recommend this to the biggest fans of either Murphy and/ or Nolte, nor can I think of a redeeming quality or value to this exact duplicate of the original. The only reason I give it a 2/ 10 is because I slightly chuckled at the several jokes about "hillbillies", and several background extras (the singer in the bar, and the guy standing on the courthouse steps) who stare at the camera. Or, were these scenes guerrilla filmed, and those people didn't know they were on camera?<br/><br/>Even more than the original, the thin plot collapses if given even the slightest bit of thought.
- Really more of a remake than a sequel as the similarities between this installment and the original eight years earlier are mind-blowing. Once again Nick Nolte is a San Francisco cop who gets convict Eddie Murphy out of prison a little early so they can stop a deviant group of criminals. This time they are after a mysterious mastermind drug kingpin who has a staggering network of thugs (mainly motorcycle) who do his bidding. And of course none of the bad guys even know who their boss is. No creativity turns this into a sequel that was just made for monetary purposes. The idea was only somewhat successful as the box office business paled in comparison with its predecessor. Critically the picture is almost a total waste. 2 stars out of 5.
- Walter Hill, who also directed the first film, surely recognizes the hollowness of what he's doing here. He tries to ram through the muddled exposition as quickly as possible; essentially, the film is wall-to-wall mayhem, with more shots of hurled bodies shattering windows than I've ever seen in a movie. [8 Jun 1990, p.1]
- "Hey! I told you to get out and you still haven't gone?!" Cates responds with, "Call for help, now!!" and the woman replies with "Idiot!" or something similar. a5c7b9f00b
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