Wednesday, March 31, 2021

'Exterminator 2' (1984) - Mark Buntzman.

With the dingy, skell-strewn city streets overrun with murderous sub-human vermin, these onerous, opportunistic parasites had proliferated far beyond the established due processes of the corrupted law's pitiful ability to cope with this rising tide of toxic humanity! Against such extraordinary evil, this relentless vanguard of skeevey villainy, flamboyantly headed by the demonically X-Rated street thug 'X' (Mario Van Peebles) there is, perhaps, only one steadfast, triumphantly thug trashing 80s iconoclast who might righteously combat this maniacally misanthropic murderer...The Exterminator!!!

Inexperienced first time feature director, Mark Buntzman might not have been the ideal choice to continue 'The Exterminator's incandescent legacy of fearless flame-throwing vengeance as, sadly, the sequel lacks the dark, gritty dynamism of Glickenhaus's landmark original. If enjoyed solely as a terrifically trashy, Bad guy BBQ-ing, B-Movie bonanza of Armoured garbage-truck driving death-dealing delirium then, quite frankly, 'Exterminator 2' remains an incendiary, intermittently insane, far from cerebral celebration of gnarly Ghetto retribution; the final edifying peek at scum-clogged street cleaner, John Eastland's singularly incandescent fury! The Exterminator keeps it real....REAL HOT!!!

A far from sleek, undeniably brutish, and occasionally baffling exploitation feature, this modestly budget Cannon films production is, sadly, all too often maligned, unfairly given short, snarky shrift, but seen in its pristine Blu-ray edition, 'Exterminator 2' has a wildly uncouth, joyfully hysterical, freakishly compelling B-Movie charisma all of its own, and one of this absurdly entertaining film's defining high points is the mesmerizing intensity that handsome headcase, Mario Van Peebles brings to his vivid performance as deranged, Manson-esque murder messiah 'X', whose hysterical, uncommonly explicit delight he expresses over his glibly despotic deeds makes for an exquisitely nasty nemesis for high-octane justice junky, John Eastland to exterminate with his own inimitable expertise for criminal-fuelled conflagration!!!  

 'The world lied...so he came back!' - Weirdlingwolf.

 


 



 


 










 

 




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