Main Cast: Loren Avedon, Max Thayer, Cynthia Rothrock, Matthias Hues
Release Year: 1989
Country: HK
Run Time: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this loose sequel to the earlier film No Retreat, No Surrender, young martial artist Scott (Loren Avedon) now living in Thailand, he has a Vietnamese girlfriend whose wealthy father would strongly disapprove of their liaison. When she is kidnapped after one of their dates, Scott seeks to rescue her. Enlisting the aid of his arms-dealing buddy Mac (Max Thayer) and pilot friend Terri (Cynthia Rothrock), he sets off into the jungles of Southeast Asia to confront the kidnappers. He confronts renegade Soviet front man Yuri (Matthias Hues), and the bad guys get their comeuppance in the usual scenes of martial arts mayhem, spiced with plenty of machine gun fire and explosions. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Hwang Jang Lee; Nirut Sirijunya; Patra Wanthivanond - Scott's Fiancee
Credit
Corey Yuen - Director, David Spear - Composer (Music Score), Ma Kam Cheung - Cinematographer, Nicholas Josef von Sternberg - Cinematographer, Roy Horan - Producer, Ng See Yuen - Producer, Maria Elene Cellino - Screenwriter, Roy Horan - Screenwriter, Keith Strandberg - Screenwriter
Loren Avedon as the hero, Max Thayer as his buddy, Cynthia Rothrock as their female sidekick and Matthias Hues as the Soviet villain. Hwang Jang-Lee also appears as a villainous martial artist. Originally intended to be a direct sequel to the first movie, which launched the career of Jean-Claude Van Damme. But Van Damme pulled out feeling the film would not further his career and persuaded co-star Kurt McKinney to do the same. So neither actor showed up for the first day of shooting. The story and characters had to be changed with McKinney's character - Jason Stillwell (a Jeet Kune Do expert taught by the ghost of Bruce Lee) transformed into Scott Wylde, a Tae Kwon Do expert played by Loren Avedon. Matthias Hues was also cast as the new Russian character. Loren Avedon did not follow Jean Claude's example and stayed on after this film fulfilling his three-picture contract.
This movie is also known as: Karate Tiger 2 and Raging Thunder. It was followed by No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers, which again featured Avedon in the lead role but is unrelated in terms of plot and characters.
