When I saw that Chad McQueen was not in this one, I figured we would get more Cynthia Rothrock in cute outfits and kicking butt. I was wrong as they simply recast the character of Sean Thompson to a guy who looks a bit more imposing than McQueen, but wears a blank expression on his face for the entire film. It's Martial Law II: Undercover, where being undercover has never been so pointless and yielded so little.
The story to this one has Sean Thompson back and looking entirely different as he goes to another precinct, leaving the person who should be the star and top billed behind. Well, a person he went to the academy with is trying to expose a dirty cop and is captured and his death made to look like drunk driving, but Sean thinks that the club he finds a matchbook from must be involved and they pretty much confirm it by attacking him! So now he sends Cynthia in as a bartender to work there and not really find any evidence as they keep sending thugs to randomly beat him up!
Cynthia is okay in this one, but she does not get to do as much as the first film and they have her in outfits more fitting for the first lady rather than a bad ass karate cop. Then there is the lead guy who looks like the main bad guy without the ponytail. Meanwhile, the main bad guy has a henchman that looks like him only with a longer ponytail! Then Billy Drago is in it looking all creepy as Billy Drago usually does.
So, the film had some good points to it in that it was an entertaining to watch type of film; however, I would have liked to see more skin from Cynthia as she looked so good in the first film. The plot is also very weak, as it is all about some dude wanting ten million dollars so he could organize martial arts matches or something. Then the final fight is a bit of a letdown considering how much they hyped up the henchman during one scene where he beat two men rather easily. I think the Carradine fight from the first film was better and it was not exactly great.