Bloodsport II: The Next Kumite (1996)
- Country: United States
- Action Director: Philip Tan
- Directed by: Alan Mehrez
- Starring: Daniel Bernhardt, Donald Gibb, Hee Il Cho, James Hong, Lisa McCullough, Lori Lynn Dickerson, Nicholas Hill, Ong Soo Han, Pat Morita, Philip Tan, Ron Hall
Eight years after the first Bloodsport comes this indirect sequel. One of the alleged reasons for the delay was Van Damme claiming that he would like to return to the scene of his breakout film role and star in the follow-up himself. But, for whatever reason, Bloodsport 2 winds up becoming the screen debut for Swiss stud Daniel Bernhardt, a martial artist and model with more than a passing resemblance to the ‘Muscles from Brussels’. Despite the clear physical and dramatic comparison, Bernhardt plays a wholly new character, a French art thief called Alex, who winds up in a Thai jail …
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