Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This movie provides a heavy dose of nostalgia for me and is what motivated me to become a blackbelt in karate when I was a kid. After rewatching it now, it's funny to see how 80s the movie is. The fight scenes however are very entertaining. Definitely an 80s classic.

I saw this movie first in 2001 December. On HBO, During those days this movie was HBO's Favorite movie. This movies offers u lots of good things like student teacher relationship, Friendship, Love, dedication to achieve goal and lots of other good things. And bonus point its star cast was also perfect fit. Every star did a good job. If u want a 80's action flick for a Sunday evening movie this one would b a great choice. The fighters shown in the movie also did a great job. And its antagonist is also a tough to defeat for our hero to achieve his goal. I guarantee u will not lose u r 1hr 30min behind this movie. It is a worth watching movie.

Fighters from around the world are gathering in Hong Kong to compete in the full contact Kumite tournament. U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is going. After Senzo Tanaka's son Shingo's death, Frank was trained to take over the Tanaka legacy. He goes AWOL and the Army sends officers Helmer and Rawlins (Forest Whitaker) to retrieve him. Looming over everyone is the brutal Kumite champion Chong Li.The setup is banal. The acting is mostly poor to utterly embarrassing. None of that matters because the matches are so fun. The UFC would arrive years later. Van Damme's acting is horrible but his kicks are things of beauty. It's my first introduction to his splits and I was amazed. It's a simple movie with simple pleasures for the simple parts of my brain.

This is a simple and no-nonsense action/sports movie, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Frank Dux, who leaves his army post to enter an underground martial arts competition to win the championship for honoring his master, Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao).As a straight-to-the-point movie, the plot is well-paced and easy to follow, with plenty of well-choreographed martial arts scenes and action sequences, from the competition fighters duking it out on one another to Frank Dux going against the ruthless and deadly record champ Chong Li (Bolo Yeung). The subplot of the two military officers, Helmer (Norman Burton) and Rawlins (Forest Whitaker), scrambling around Hong Kong to find Dux blends in well with the main plot and delivers some added intrigue and comic relief to the story.The film contains some plot holes, for example, the reason why the HK police never investigated the underground martial arts operation was not explained. But, it's still a good flick that action movie fans should enjoy.Grade B