What a waste of my time!!!

one of my absolute favorites!

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

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.

I guess my summary sums up what you are going to get.There is a decent murder mystery twist, there is an angle on gangs, and Asian spirituality.Could have been deeper, but I can't give to low of grade since I watched it all and was entertained._________________________________________I would limit my review there, but IMDb insist that I have ten lines.So the acting was very passable. Corey Feldman plays the antagonist and does a decent villain.The main problem of the is that it has no style at all. It's like watching TV drama. If they had gave the script to a director that can add substance, might have made the movie better.The Movies is Karate Kid with a murder twist. And the photography and the style tries to hard to copy Karate Kid. When they had enough new things to stand on their own.

And I still do. This movie is good. At least it is much better than 'Karate Kid'. Of course, somebody could say that it is a ripoff of 'Karate Kid' but there are some very important differences.First and probably the most important thing is that the teenager karate expert was a real teenager. You know, Ralph Macchio was 23 years old when he starred in 'Karate Kid'. It was pretty strange for me to see a man at his age at the role of 16 years old boy.Second, I will tell something about the fights. Although I liked the fights in 'Karate Kid' I could see that Macchio and the rest of the actors do not have real martial arts experience. The fights in 'A Dangerous Place' are much more realistic and much more attractive. Much better, I think.Now I will tell something about the characters and the acting. Well, the acting in 'A Dangerous Place' is not better than the acting in 'Karate Kid' but it is not worse too. But the characters are much better developed. I will try to explain. What was the main character in 'Karate Kid'? A teenager searching for troubles all the time who finally got black belt after two months of training, right? And what was the main character in 'A Dangerous Place'? A teenager who had devoted his life to martial arts and who did not search for troubles until somebody killed his brother. I think Ethan had much better motivation for what he did than Daniel. What do you think? What was the karate teacher of Daniel? A funny old man ho made his student wash his car, right? And what was the karate teacher of Ethan? A funny old man who showed his students real karate. What do you think? Who is more believable? The story... Guess what? I think the story in 'A Dangerous Place' is much better than the story in 'Karate Kid'. Yes, it is not very believable but the story in 'Karate Kid' is not too.And so on. I like this movie.

This is a horrible film. Its nothing like the Karate Kid except that it has a kid in it who knows Karate. The plot is paper thin, the acting is cardboard (Corey Feldman included) and character development consists of good guys in white, bad guys in red. The whole film takes itself far too seriously and this is especially evident anytime the overly dramatic soundtrack ques in (good example being the very serious sounding synth music being played during a food fight in a school cafeteria as students smile on). The way the film plays out it feels like they're making it up on the spot. Even the action is boring and safe feeling. Don't waste your time.

Why has this film been so completely neglected? A Dangerous Place is without a doubt one of the most competent and entertaining B-grade teen action films to be released in the 1990s. This film plays like a more violent version of "The Karate Kid", only with cool car chases and without the endless training montages.A Dangerous Place reinterprets a classic martial arts storyline. One brother is killed in a fight (usually during a tournament), forcing the other brother to brush up his fighting skills before facing his brother's murderer in the ring. A Dangerous Place loosely uses this framework but makes a number of interesting adjustments. In this case, Greg is killed in a fight with Taylor (Corey Feldman), the leader of the Scorpions Karate club. Greg's younger brother, Ethan (T.J. Roberts), suspects foul play and joins the club to learn the truth. This leads to the classic match showdown between the Scorpions and Ethan's club, the Lions. This film manages to breathe new life into the well worn formula by transferring the action to a high school and by making the Scorpions a criminal outfit, which carries out robberies orchestrated by their teacher and sensei. The great Pat Morita would most definitely not approve!A Dangerous Place is directed by Jerry P. Jacobs, who made a string of great low budget action films in the 1990s. This man knows how to entertain viewers with a steady stream of robberies, car chases and karate battles. This film never lets up, from the opening scene, (in which the gang carry out a robbery after being dropped off by one of the boys' mothers!) to the dazzling finale. The fight sequences are particularly well done, with clever editing and interesting camera work. There is not much blood but the action is relatively realistic for a film aimed at a teen audience. Oh, and keep an eye out for Greg's ghost, which I thought was a highly amusing creative touch.In addition to great action sequences, the film offers a fine cast of cult actors. The always impressive Mako plays the good sensei, while Marshall R. Teague has a great time playing yet another evil character, the crime lord sensei/English teacher. Corey Feldman has possibly his best role of the 90s as Taylor. As unlikely as it sounds, he is actually quite believable as an evil karate villain and does not look completely ridiculous in the fight scenes. The same can be said for T.J. Roberts, who does well in the fight scenes despite looking half the size of his opponents.A Dangerous Place is worth hunting down. Contrary to a couple of reviews here, I don't think it is as good as "The Karate Kid" but I do think it is considerably better than most of the crap passing for mindless entertainment these days.