Review of Angel of Death 2: The Prison Island Massacre

"Angel of Death 2" is a German movie from 2007, so this one has its 10th anniversary this year. It is one of the more, but not most, known works by writer and director Andreas Bethmann. And if you hear this name plus the names Kercmar, Manoush, Carsten Frank and Olaf Ittenbach, who was in charge of the effects, then you maybe guess correctly already what to expect here. The answer is: lots of sex, lots of gore and violence, but major deficits in all kinds of other areas, the most crucial being story-telling obviously. I wrote in the title of my review that this is a the epitome of an amateur movie, but while some may see this even as a compliment, in my opinion it means that it is a really bad movie. "Amateurish" is nothing you would aim at, especially if you have been making films for a long time already. After all, this one here is the sequel to another Bethmann movie from almost a decade earlier. And it seems he has nothing learned during that time. This also refers to his castings decisions as most of the actors and actresses are really unbearably bad and the worst is that this film (at least the version i saw) ran for a massive two hours and twenty-two minutes. And you could perhaps say that two hours and twenty minutes of that are garbage. It makes me a bit sad to see Lina Romay in here playing a crucial role as lots of the stuff she has done in her younger years is really far superior to films like this one here, even if you could it as well to the genre of sexploitation movies, especially with how it starts right away with a rape scene. Jess Franco also has a small cameo and I don't understand it as films like this one here are really nothing he would want in his body of work. The story is as bad as it is generic. Girl gets raped, then schemed for drug possession and she ends up on a prison island while her millionaire dad sends out men to free her from the humiliation. This film actually goes by several other names as well, not just in Germany, but also in other regions of the world. But no matter what you call it, it will always stay a huge piece of crap with horrible acting, writing and looks/direction. I suggest you stay far far away.