Sadly Over-hyped

Powerful

Memorable, crazy movie

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I just can't believe that it's possible to make martial arts movies as bad as this one. This is a great example for all future filmmakers how things should not be done. First, let talk about the fight scenes. Before watching this movie, I knew that it would be fighting almost non-stop from beginning to end. Great, I thought. The only problem is that the fight scenes just stink way beyond imagination. They were both slow and totally unspectacular, and I almost fell asleep watching.And now for the story (or lack of story). During this movie, I had huge problems in figuring out what was going on. Things just didn't make any sense at all, and I guess it's a new world record when it comes to plot holes (Calling them plot holes is way to good of a description though, since this movie really doesn't have a plot at all). And then, you could add David Carradine's worst part in a movie ever (maybe), and the same for Gary Daniels. I sure hope they have forgotten about this maximum piece of junk a long time ago.

This movie has a plot; a drug was manufactured for the purpose of improving food genetically but was found to cause birth defects and therefore was made illegal for use, it is highly addictive and very cheap to make. Thayer(Gary Daniels) was set up by a corrupt police detective to stage a fake death in the ring of his opponent while kick boxing, then they made it appear he really did kill his opponent. He has to run from the cops as well as the drug dealing Japanese gang led by his former sensai. His goal is to stop the shipment of drugs as well as put a stop to the gang. He must battle many villains including his former sensai in an epic match. Decent but somewhat complex plot the bad thing about this movie is the fight scenes are very sluggish at most times and the overall filming quality is horrible. This seems to be a low budget B movie, it is an OK movie but it would not be my first choice to buy. Almost any karate or kick boxing movie tops this as far as fight scenes go, this movie is at times hard to take seriously and is at times laughable with its slow fight scenes.

Sure, this movie is low budget, but that doesn't mean it's no good. Gary Daniels is likable in one of his early staring roles. The fighting is almost non-stop from beginning to end. Don't expect Jackie Chan like perfection though. Don't expect oscar calibre acting either. But, most martial arts movie fans will almost definitely like it. I know I did. Also, the training sequence before the kick-boxing match is awesome!

THIS is the pits. From beginning to end, you keep wondering : what the heck is going on ? Who's this guy ? Why are they fighting ? Where is the plot ? IS there a plot ? (Obviously, the answer is : no). The movie is so low-budgeted that they had to use stock-shots inserts from other movies, and the continuity goofs are unbelievable (Come to think of it, the whole movie is a goof). David Carradine is visible three minutes, behind a desk and behind the wheel of a truck. Gary Daniels, who was great in "Twin Dragons", deserves better.