Directed by: William Lustig
Budget: 4 million
This takes place almost right the way after the first film. Cordell though being impaled by the pipe and plunging into the water has escaped capture. Campbell's Cop Jack just wants to get on with life putting Cordell behind him Theresa is still fearful though even after councilling. She fears Cordell will still come after them.
Cordell acquires an older police cruiser and his first port of call is a clerk who thinks the cop has come to save him from a robbery. Wrong Cordell kills the clerk and gives the robber his gun back, he is killed by cops later because of this.
A new killer is on the scene too, Steven turkel who kills strippers but more on him later.
Jack happy and oblivious to Cordell's return buys a paper from an old blind vendor he knows. Then gets Cordell's baton knife through his neck. Theresa distraught over this tries to leave town. Escorted by the female psychiatrist/Cop Susan into a taxi they are chased by Cordell.
He kills the taxi driver attaches Susan to a car steering wheel and send her off freewheeling down the road. After hurting her a bit he snaps Theresa's neck. Susan just about manages to escape by getting inside the car.
Steven meanwhile has his sights on killing a stripper he saw earlier. She manages to call the police who arrive just in time, before they can arrest Steven however Cordell comes and kills the officers. Him and turkel escape before more cops come to Cheryl's aid.
Strangely they strike up friendship and Cordell goes to turkels apartment. He stays a while listening to turkels repartee, however when turkel passes out he leaves. Later on turkel awakes and stupidly goes back to the strip club. There Cheryl identifies him and he's arrested.
While in the cells he threatens that his friend is coming to get him. Cordell does indeed break into the police station killing officers left and right. Turkel and Cordell take Susan hostage into a prison bus. They head towards the prison and break in there.
Another police officer McKinney however has been persuading the DA Doyle to reveal his cover up of Cordell's death. When makes him announce it over the prisons PA system Cordell abandons the killing and walks off.
He finds the men who originally attacked him. They hit Cordell with a molotov cocktail, unfazed he proceeds to kill them. Since Cordell first made friends with turkel he's used him to get to this point. The crazy realises this and attacks Cordell, the fight and plummet from a window/wall.
Hitting a bus below it explodes killing them both. Near the end Cordell is finally buried with honours. McKinney and Susan look on and throw Cordell's warped burnt badge onto his coffin. As they walk away Cordell's hand bursts from the coffin and grabs his badge.
By far no where near as enjoyable as the first but a very decent sequel none the less. The original cast are killed within the first third of the film leaving a new group to deal with Cordell. The story is slightly intelligent with him manipulating turkel to his ends, for this I give the film a good 3/5
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