[Inspector Abberline]

Exterminator 2 takes the vigilante movie back into the gutter where it truly belongs, where black and Puerto Rican characters are portrayed as mere criminal cannon fodder for flame thrower wielding Exterminator.Instead of the gritty street feel of the first vigilante adventure the sequel goes all Mad Max or maybe Bronx Warriors as a gang led by the youthful looking Mario Van Peebles as x , goes about their daily business of hijacking security vans, shooting helicopters out of the sky and tieing policemen to the railway tracks.If you thought that Death Wish 3 was slightly on the ludicrous side then Exterminator 2 will be no surprise, as it's chock full of the most riotous action.When X needs to test his sample of dope to see if its pure,he sends one of his break dancing roller skaters out to carry off some unsuspecting lady right under the nose of her boyfriend.It's all very obviously 80's, but you can't exactly hold that against it,the late Robert Ginty does the best with a fairly one-dimensional character but he doesn't get to do a great deal in the sequel apart from appearing out of nowhere with a bloody great flame thrower, where his character gets all this stuff is beyond me he can't have stolen it all from his Vietnam days. (although miraculously his friend Frankie Faison as Be Gee has an arsenal stashed away) Gintys character does look like a man out of sync with the times,while everybody else is body popping in track suits Ginty looks like he is auditioning for a part in a vigilante movie.It's not until Ginty's girlfriend is beaten and paralysed by Peebles gang that Ginty finds the impetus to step up his vigilante antics.While not as nasty or as iconic as the first film it has to be said its all trashy fun (literally as they drive around in a rubbish lorry).