Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Blistering performances.

Lauren Avedon as Jake Donahue! Billy Blanks as Khan! Good vs Evil! WHO WINS!!!! How do you rate something so over the top so over exaggerated, so full of itself. The plot will not win Oscars, the lines are just insane and the acting oh boy the acting is so...so...incredibly over the top, it's so good.This movie is a gem, right up there with Superfights and No Retreat, No Surrender as some really fun so bad, it's good martial arts flicks we saw pop up in the mid 90's to early 90's. These movies were the pinnacle of guy-dem, in an era which we saw T2 and Turtles and the Ooze....this was a lost gem that ALL men and true guys who love movies should worship.It's the Troll 2 of action movies, so fun to watch and make fun of.Lauren Avedon, is the Nicolas Cage of action movies; so over the top, he over acts yet...he's so good at it you cannot stop watching. From his Star Wars Episode III Darth Vader like, "Noooooooooooooooooo...." to his egotistical fights and other quizzical one liners. It's so bad it's good?Avedon plays a cop who sees his antagonist in Billy Blanks after years of searching and his memory is jogged. Essentially Lauren Avedon is OUT FOR VENGEANCE and has to become the King of the Kickboxers if he has any chance of living.Could this be the BEST Worst Movie of All Time?

This movie i caught by accident back in 1990. This movie has got a kick-ass soundtrack for its fight montages and opening scenes. The acting as most reviewers have said is quite poor but hey! that's not what matters. It's got to be the awesome moves achieved by the protagonist and nemesis that make it watchable. The main actor is a cop who has a wild side. He is very cocky but gets the job done and will take any kudos his way. Part of his personality may be due to his troubled past that never was resolved. He goes to Thailand to pose as a fighter. This being the only way fit to find the filmmakers. Who are responsible for the making and distributing of snuff movies. The risk is very high since the star in the movies is a murderer in the films. This makes the cop-turned-fighter even more motivated but he still lacks the proper skills to fight Khan (Billy Blanks). Jake(Loren Avedon) learns his ego won't get him very far with his true goals. Knowing this he must train very hard with a man who knows a thing or two about Khan's strengths. Also may have the mind set and right tools to beat him. The man goes by the name Prang. He is played by (Keith Cooke). Prang is touted as a Master fighter by locals. He is also in hiding. He has a funny way of initiating young Jake. They become friends and prepare Jake for Khan. You'll also notice things like Prang looks barely 22 and Jake looks not much older. Khan looks like he's around 27. It's a 90's Martial Art movie so it is not meant to be taken seriously.

Loren Avedon stars as Jake Donahue, a kung fu cop who is sent by interpol to take down a group of snuff filmmakers and get revenge for his brother's death, who was also killed by the snuff film star. King Of The Kickboxers is a tough film to review, on a lot of levels it's utterly dreadful but the fights are so utterly spectacular that one tends to give the benefit of the doubt and enjoy the film as a great martial arts film. Loren Avedon has some great moves and thankfully never takes the movie too seriously, and despite his cocky bravado manages to come off as sort of likable. Billy Blanks is also a great villain, and both Richard Jaeckel and Don Stroud provide credibility to a silly plot. As it goes, King Of The Kickboxers works in the same way a cheap Bruce Li film works except the fights are on par with Jackie Chan's 80s work and here goes why I recommend the movie in spite of good taste. Then again, if we can't appreciate trash what can we enjoy?* * * out of 4-(Good)

I played Mr Director, a talking bit-part, in the filming on-location at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.I won't bore you with production secrets like Sherri Rose running all the way from the National Park to downtown Bangkok in 17 seconds flat, I'll just focus on content.Billy Blanks at that time was 7-Time All-World Full-Contact Karate Champion, in excellent form, hard as nails, and Avedon wasn't.This sets the basic dilemma for the director: Keith Hirabachi was an All-American champion, Billy was a champion, but the STAR of the film wasn't up to much at all, karate-wise! So there are shots in the film where, in the thick of brawling, Avedon's hair changes to the exact color of his stunt-double's hair... or that ridiculous scene in the climax where Billy's thick, kicking leg is stopped by Avedon, who then ADJUSTS IT, in order to flip Billy...Puh-leeze! Billy's bits, and Keith's and Ong's... they're authentic, and add something to the film... but as good an actor as Avedon is, with this plot/framework/vehicle and his skinny shanks, the film became a verging-on-ludicrous tale of "Chunky Yellow Man Teaches Skinny White Man to Beat BIG, THICK BLACK Man!" Its inauthentic, through and through...But what the hey! Its a yarn! Karridine/John Kay