My review was written in January 1991 after watching the film on MGM/UA video cassette.
Hawaiian actioner "Silk 2" has an all-new heroine, but it's business as usual in the chasing-around department. This is a mnor video title from Roger Corman's Concorde stable.
Monique Gabrielle, mis-advertised as former "Playmate of the Year" (she was a Penthouse mag model, not a Playboy gatefold girl), takes over the title role of a Honolulu cop from Cec Verrell in a drastic contrst of body shapes and hairstyles.
She's out to solve the mystery of missing Japanese scrolls that no-goodnik Jan Merlin is using as part of an insurance scam at his art museum. Along the way she teams up with friendly tourist Maria Claire and bland action hero Peter Nelson.
Pic's high point is a self-homage by Filippino director Cirio Santiago to his 1974 classic "TNT Jackson", with Gabrielle having a high-kicking martial arts fight in topless format, just like Jeanne Bell did so long ago. The slow motion sex scene of Gabrielle and Nelson in bed is shot in blurrr-o-vision, however.
Hawaiian actioner "Silk 2" has an all-new heroine, but it's business as usual in the chasing-around department. This is a mnor video title from Roger Corman's Concorde stable.
Monique Gabrielle, mis-advertised as former "Playmate of the Year" (she was a Penthouse mag model, not a Playboy gatefold girl), takes over the title role of a Honolulu cop from Cec Verrell in a drastic contrst of body shapes and hairstyles.
She's out to solve the mystery of missing Japanese scrolls that no-goodnik Jan Merlin is using as part of an insurance scam at his art museum. Along the way she teams up with friendly tourist Maria Claire and bland action hero Peter Nelson.
Pic's high point is a self-homage by Filippino director Cirio Santiago to his 1974 classic "TNT Jackson", with Gabrielle having a high-kicking martial arts fight in topless format, just like Jeanne Bell did so long ago. The slow motion sex scene of Gabrielle and Nelson in bed is shot in blurrr-o-vision, however.