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Terrible belated followup, carelessly made
I enjoyed the original theatrical film 'CODE NAME': ORIENTAL TREATMENT, but this over-a-decade-later followup is disgracefully bad. The director alternately credited as Rhonda or Donna Sanders is beneath hack status.
Even the credits are sloppy, as Lee Carroll (her name misspelled) is listed as playing "Marge" but her character turns out to be named Shanghai Lee.
Idiotic storyline, credited to one "Dutch Bishop" but crudely improvised, has Carroll muscling in on creepy bar owner William Margold, a porn "icon" whose mysterious fame demonstrates what a crummy industry we're dealing with -his photo is in the dictionary under the word "hanger-on".
With the aid and muscle (!?) of slick Marc Wallice, Margold is given his walking papers, and Lee turns the bar into a brothel, retaining Bill's employee Mai Lin as a whore. Both gals have great ad libs in Lee's quickie interview of the prospective hire; video is so unimaginative that Mai Lin's character is named, wait for it...., Mai Lin.
In fact the only enjoyment I got out of ORIENTAL TREATMENT II is Lee's in-character nastiness, spewing out improvised venom that belonged in a better venue.
To live up to its punning title, film's nominally about pearl smuggling, as one gal arrives at LAX from Hong Kong with a string of pearls literally hidden in her snatch. Typical of the clumsy direction is when a waitress Lulu (Alex Storm) later steals them from Wallice - you have to see the phony scene to disbelieve it.
Film is trading more or less on the fans' thirst for mixed-combo action. Low points (tied) are a sleazy sex scene set in a bathroom at the airport involving Oriental/Latino mix; and of course Margold getting a blow job wearing his Detroit Lions sweatshirt.
Very tinny original soundtrack (the drum machine is particularly artificial and annoying) takes "Green Onions" as its template and imitates it religiously.
Adding insult to injury, there are two very sexy elaborate stills on the back of the video box which have nothing whatsoever to do with its contents. Caveat emptor, baby.
Even the credits are sloppy, as Lee Carroll (her name misspelled) is listed as playing "Marge" but her character turns out to be named Shanghai Lee.
Idiotic storyline, credited to one "Dutch Bishop" but crudely improvised, has Carroll muscling in on creepy bar owner William Margold, a porn "icon" whose mysterious fame demonstrates what a crummy industry we're dealing with -his photo is in the dictionary under the word "hanger-on".
With the aid and muscle (!?) of slick Marc Wallice, Margold is given his walking papers, and Lee turns the bar into a brothel, retaining Bill's employee Mai Lin as a whore. Both gals have great ad libs in Lee's quickie interview of the prospective hire; video is so unimaginative that Mai Lin's character is named, wait for it...., Mai Lin.
In fact the only enjoyment I got out of ORIENTAL TREATMENT II is Lee's in-character nastiness, spewing out improvised venom that belonged in a better venue.
To live up to its punning title, film's nominally about pearl smuggling, as one gal arrives at LAX from Hong Kong with a string of pearls literally hidden in her snatch. Typical of the clumsy direction is when a waitress Lulu (Alex Storm) later steals them from Wallice - you have to see the phony scene to disbelieve it.
Film is trading more or less on the fans' thirst for mixed-combo action. Low points (tied) are a sleazy sex scene set in a bathroom at the airport involving Oriental/Latino mix; and of course Margold getting a blow job wearing his Detroit Lions sweatshirt.
Very tinny original soundtrack (the drum machine is particularly artificial and annoying) takes "Green Onions" as its template and imitates it religiously.
Adding insult to injury, there are two very sexy elaborate stills on the back of the video box which have nothing whatsoever to do with its contents. Caveat emptor, baby.
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- lor_
- Mar 29, 2011
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