Kill and Kill Again
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| Directed by | Ivan Hall |
| Produced by | Igo Kantor Edward L. Montoro |
| Written by | John Crowther |
| Starring |
James Ryan Anneline Kriel Michael Mayer Marloe Scott Wilson Bill Flynn Norman Robinson |
| Cinematography | Tai Krige |
| Edited by |
Robert Leighton Peter Thornton |
| Distributed by |
Film Ventures International (USA) Ambassador Film Distributors (Canada) Ster-Kinekor Pictures |
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States South Africa |
| Language | English |
Kill and Kill Again is a 1981 South African/American action film notable for being the first live-action film to use the visual effects known as bullet-time. It is a sequel to Kill or Be Killed (1980). Filmed in Sun City, Bophuthatswana, the film has a more tongue in cheek comedy approach than its predecessor.
The plot involves Steve Chase (James Ryan), trying to stop the evil Marduk (Michael Mayer) from amassing an army of mind-controlled karate slaves and taking over the world. Steve is assisted by Gorilla, the strongman (Ken Gampu); Gypsy Billy, the "former champion of the world", (Norman Robinson); The Fly, a mystic man (Stan Schmidt) and Hotdog, the gimmicky weapon-expert and theoretical comic relief (Bill Flynn). Also on Steve's team is Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel), a woman claiming to be the daughter of Dr. Kane, who invented the potato-based mind-control serum that Marduk uses on his army.
The movie is characterized by a plot that's largely taken from Bruce Lee films (Steve Chase must defeat Marduk's champion The Optimus in a karate tournament), although the martial arts scenes are considered by some to be surprisingly accurate (especially in the final karate tournament) ignoring the constant backflips Steve Chase uses to get anywhere.
The American release of the film had the actors dubbed with American accents. In the film scenes were shot with the characters handling American money both to not give away that the film was South African, despite it being a sequel to a popular South African film.
The bullet-time scene occurs at the end, when Marduk has died and his chief guard is about to kill Dr. Kane while Steve is climbing up the outside of the building they're in. The guard fires his gun (at 1:36:10) and the bullet comes out very slowly and moves across the screen in a recognizable (but low-budget) early version of the famous scene in the Matrix. After ten seconds of the bullet flying across the room, Steve Chase has gotten up the building, gets inside the room, and deflects the bullet with a metal ashtray.
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