Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Movie review - "Crocodile Dundee II" (1988) **1/2

No one much likes this sequel - indeed I'm struggling to recall moments for it. I did like the opening of Dundee fishing in New York, the murder of Linda Kozlowski's ex was done with reasonable suspense, the rescue sequence with people from parties was fun, as was the attempted suicide thing. The drug runner plot was stock but serviceable. The film felt as though it needed something else-  another character or something. A love rival, say.

The direction is flat. Peter Faiman's work was clearly underestimated. So too was writer Ken Shadie (he was replaced here by Brett Hogan).

There's nice scenery, Hogan works well, John Meillion looks as though he's about to die (he soon did), Ernie Dingo is charismatic.

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