Really Surprised!

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

The first C.I.A. film was a hoot - an O. J. Simpson starring actioner filled with hard-hitting fight scenes - but this undistinguished sequel is a big step down. Gone is director Joseph Merhi, to be replaced by Lorenzo Lamas who can barely act let alone direct a sufficiently exciting action flick. What we're left with is the kind of film you end up forgetting about roughly five minutes after it finishes.Kathleen Kinmont is back as the tough heroine, once more coerced by the government into fighting some nefarious bad guys in her quest for justice. Lamas is now long haired and mooches around in the background. The villains are an uninteresting bunch, aside from warrior woman Lori Fetrick, who gets to engage in some frenetic and hard-hitting bouts with Kinmont.Elsewhere, the plot is a mess of explosions, grubby fight scenes, and general inanity. Say what you like about Merhi but the guy knows how to shoot tense and hard-hitting fight scenes which are all about the staging. The fights here are by comparison poor indeed, and nothing feels very exciting, just ho hum.

For reasons that I still can't figure out Kathleen Kinmont was absolutely essential to getting back a stolen microchip that if it fell into the wrong hands could lead to the downfall of the USA. She wants out of the terrorism game, but her real life husband Lorenzo Lamas of the CIA wants to drag her back in.All Kinmont wants to do is raise her daughter, her daughter whose father is John Savage the terrorist who they think has the chip. He doesn't have it, but he sure wants it. Another group beat him to it.For those who like their action films without too much strain on the brain this successor CIA II: Target Alexa is definitely for you. Lorenzo Lamas's fans will see him do his martial arts thing and Kinmont is pretty good herself. The one thing that this film really has going for it is female bodybuilder Lori Fetrick and Kinmont going at it. It's the ultimate in chick fighting.But it ain't enough.

Quite possibly the most hilarious action movie ever made, but more likely the most homo-erotic action film ever made.Perpetuates the stereotypes of action films made after 1994 beautifully. Apparently, militias in parts of the world contain only mustached/bearded sweaty men in camouflage wife-beaters, with additionally hilarious ponytails.I'm fairly certain that I saw one of the uniforms in the film contain the word "Military" on a patch, which would be akin to a police officer wearing a badge that said "Cop" or "Police Office", as if it weren't obvious enough.I especially enjoy the scene where the helicopters come over the horizon and begin firing on everything in sight - including horses, tents, vehicles, plants, etc. The only thing that doesn't explode in a giant fireball are the horses...everything else goes up in flames, particularly, the empty tents.I sort of feel bad for the actors in this film because all of their IMDb profiles have this film listed...but...they did agree to be in the film, so this film is their punishment I guess.

I don't get attached to that many action movies, and this isn't one of them, actually. One off-putting thing about it is a scene where a character gives a sort of "war whoop" while machine-gunning someone - what's weird is that it's one of the GOOD GUYS doing it. But one thing made me watch it. Like "Brad the Lad", I've always been mad about Lori "Ice" Fetrick. And as he says, she's very convincing in that villainous role (that smile of hers works in a role like that as much as any other way, and, needless to say, everything else about her). I just wish she'd gotten to wear the kind of skimpy clothes Kathleen Kinmont did in the previous movie. No offense to Lamas and Kinmont, but 5 stars for the movie, and 10 for her.