Bloodsport
The true story of an American ninja.
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
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Overall Score: 60%
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Off-licence Street Fighter
This is more a Street Fighter movie than the official SF movie, also starring Van Damme.
Ensemble cast of fighters, all visually and stylistically very different, about as much plot as a porno (hello guys, I'm here to FIGHT), and of course, a tournament.
This movie also features a young Whitaker, fresh off Platoon and Good Morning, Vietnam. And then, yep, Bloodsport. Before moving on to Bird. Go figure.
Yeung is as fearsome as ever, and Van Damme sets a new world record for over-acting. Both in duration and intensity.
And yeah, the whole Frank Dux thing. As the closing credits remind us, he set the record for most KO in a single tournament: 56.
If one has to slog through (at least) 56 opponents, it's not a tournament, it's an RPG. Or DBZ. Or an RPG based on DBZ.
Seriously, with a standard direct elimination setup, that's >10^16 participants.
But hey, that's the 80s: unabashedly boasting, and flamboyantly moronic.
Created: 09-21-2024