"Hero Ma" (here played by Ti Lung), who developed a counter to the Emperor's infamous Flying Guillotine in FLYING GUILLOTINE (where he was played by Chen Kuan Tai), is hunted by the Emperor's men once again in FLYING GUILLOTINE 2. Ma's counter-weapon, you'll recall, was The Iron Umbrella, a skeletal frame of iron with which he could catch the Flying Guillotine. (If you can buy the Flying Guillotine itself as a viable weapon, then the Iron Umbrella makes a viable counter measure...) To counter the Iron Umbrella, the Emperor has his weapons master concoct a counter counter-weapon. This can best be described as a "double-header," a Flying Guillotine with a SECOND snare that drops down below the first (thereby, hopefully, getting past the Iron Umbrella). Na Lan (Shih) and her bevy of beautiful female assassins volunteer to learn to use the new and improved counter-weapon. Bao (Lo Lieh) protests, but must capitulate when Na Lan passes the acid test (at one point, her loyalty is put to the test and she poisons her own father). Dressed in striking purple costumes and capes, the women are ready for action. While FLYING GUILLOTINE 2 is well directed, the fight scenes are a bit lacking- and the editing amounts to little more than a hatchet job (literally), with too many frames missing from each fight scene to often tell exactly what's supposed to have happened. Most frustrating of all is Ti Lung: his part amounts to little more than a cameo. It's not a bad movie, but it's not a great one, either.