Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster

Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1989)

Runtime: 93 minutes

Directed by: George Erschbamer

Starring: Lorenzo Lamas, Larry B. Scott, Michelle Scarabelli, Harvey Atkin, Jack Blum

From: Cinepix

Last night I got to see this and the third movie on television, back to back. They aren't great movies by any means, but I don't regret seeing either. The review of The Drug Buster is below: 

A few times in my life, I have watched the original Snake Eater, starring Lorenzo Lamas as the title character, part of an elite group of Marines... who surprisingly gets his ass kicked a lot. I discovered that also happened in the sequels. Anyhow, he did battle with Rob Zombie white trash who killed his parents and kidnapped his sister. Yet I had never seen either sequel until last night, when I watched them back to back on the El Rey Network. Both aren't bad... just average.

The plot of this: Snake ends up in a mental institution after being a loose cannon and killing some drug dealers who are killing people with their poorly made drugs. It's all pretty goofy and it's not exactly One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in its portrayal of “the loony bin”. After all, it's incredibly easy to sneak in and out of there and the joint has WHEELCHAIR JOUSTING on the roof. Yes, it's as dopey as it sounds. There's everything from Snake running into a prostitute and a Domino's Pizza delivery guy in the mental hospital's air shafts to a villain who is made to look like the bad guy in a Joe D'Amato horror picture.

Yet I can say that this is inoffensive nonsense, way too silly to be taken seriously. You still get bad comedy, people getting beat up, and a hilarious finale where the bad guys get their comeuppance in a ludicrous way. Plus, there's Ron Palillo playing an arsonist named Torchy (this is the sort of thing he did after Welcome Back, Kotter) and Larry B. Scott playing a character named SPEEDBOAT, a role less dignified than when he played flaming homosexual stereotype Lamar Latrelle. It's low-budget crap, but at least still watchable crap.