Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
View MoreA film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
View MoreIt is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
View MoreThe film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
View MoreIts not easy to find a worse actor than JCVD, however, they went above and beyond when they found Alain MoussiDon't get me wrong I loved the first Kick boxer movie and other JCVD movies such as AWOL, Blood Sport etc........The thing with those early movies, is that although the acting may not have been great, but the films had heart and that feel good moment when JCVD was kicking the crap out of the bad guy.Its the same with JCVD terrible actor but he has style and Charisma.Although Alain Moussi plays he fight scenes extremely professionally, as an actor in this movie he has no heart or charisma. So back to the movie Kickboxer: Vengeance - the movie has great fight scenes and that is about it - the movie has no atmosphere, no heart, no fine good moment.The final fight scene although well choreographed, the scene is flat and has no hearth and the crowd started shouting Nak Su Kaw! It was torture!! They were trying to recreate the atmosphere from the first movie.....no it failed ... no heart beat.... ...... then there is the next film Kickboxer: Retaliation.....arrrrrghhhh!! ... its even worse than Kickboxer: Vengeance!!!
View MoreIt is not a bad movie in the sense of the whole meaning. But I would have preferred to see a guy like Scott Adkins having the main role. The choreography and the story line are fine but the problem with Alain Moussi is that when fighting Bautista , he doesn't give the will to use full force. Van Damme saves the goods by his fighting scenes with Moussi. The fight scenes between Bautista an Moussi are well choreographed.Watchable and enjoyable but not on par with the original
View MoreI didn't care for the original 1989 "Kickboxer" movie when I saw it back in the day. It had a clichéd and predictable script, and the martial arts weren't the greatest. But I had a little hope for this remake/reboot, since the original movie failed in pretty much every way; there was seemingly no way to go but up.To be certain, this new film LOOKS better than the original - it looks more expensive and slick. But other than that particular attribute, there's not much else to say that's positive. The script is the main offender here. The characters (both good and bad) are extremely thin, showing very little personality and motivation. They seem more manipulated by the (thin) story than they manipulating the story. Speaking of the story, it unfolds in a very predictable manner, made worse that for the most part it seems to be taking its sweet time.It's possible that the movie, despite the bad script, might have still been salvaged. More than one action movie has been redeemed by good action sequences. If the movie had a top grade action director like Isaac Florentine, this probably would have happened. However, John Stockwell, this movie's director, makes the plentiful martial arts sequences routine at best, and never with enough excitement or feeling of bone-crunching.This is not the worst martial arts movie I have seen, but it's one of the most generic I have seen for a long time. You have seen it all before, trust me - and a lot better elsewhere. The only novelty the movie offers is some of the most strangest (and pretentious) on screen English subtitles ever seen in a movie.
View MoreI sat down and watched this whole film and the only reason why I did is for Van Damme. Why does the movie industry insist on remakes. I guess for a quick buck and I guess they can film a movie on a camera mummy bought them for xmas. Was the original kickboxer movie cheesy... Yes of course but it offered originality. Im surprised I sat through the whole movie to be honest. And I see they are planning on making another one in 2017, OMG why f**king bother. All these young actors coming through to be the next van damme or Arnold etc. my word for you is to be original, if you just do remakes or try to be like Van Damme or Arnold you will get no where and be a nothing actor! So basically the plot of the movie is like the original but it seemed a lot longer and that was due to the long training montage that just kept going. So Eric gets killed in a fight with tong po happens in the first 15mins, the next 50mins is of Erics brother training to fight Tong Po with no other interesting fill in parts except for the sex scene which I guess keeps the young kids interested. and then he is finally ready to fight tong po to the death and wins of course (to the death).Acting was terrible and all I could think about is how much steroids was used to prepare for this film. it feels like action fighting movies are dead not what they once were!
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