Bloodsport
Action • R • 1988 • 1 hr 32 min
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Best Van Damme movie. Great fighting movie too.
The first 20 minutes are slow and a bit confusing, but if you get past that, it's a really fun movie. Cheesy 80s martial arts at its finest!
Good martial arts tournament movie, but don’t believe for a second that it actually happened
A fun 80’s marital arts movie. Action is decent but it is a bit cheesy and the writing a little confusing.
The breakout Van Damme classic. Just lots of fighting and little plot. Kumite! Kumite! Kumite!
This movie is pretty bad. But, it is all the right types of bad. Mountains of cheese. Loads of cringe-inducing dialog. Prime JCVD.
Classic martial arts film featuring a charismatic VanDamme as the hero and a menacing Bolo Yeung as the main villain. Great fight sequences
If Rocky knew martial arts, this is what this movie is…..
By far Van Damme’s best movie. Menacing villain and interesting, if not stereotypical, other fighters make for a fun watch.
JCVD at the height of his prowess. Fun fact: Mortal Kombat was originally going to be a Bloodsport video game.
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U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?
After thief Alex Cardo gets caught while stealing an ancient katana in East Asia, he soon finds himself imprisoned and beaten up by the crowd there. One of the guards, Demon, feels upset by Alex appearance and tortures him as often as he gets the opportunity. Alex finds a friend and mentor in the jailhouse, Master Sun, who teaches him a superior fighting style called Iron Hand. When a 'best of the best kumite' is to take place, Demon gets an invitation. Now Master Sun and Alex need to find a way to let Alex take part in the kumite too.
Bloodsport III brings us back to the world of Alex Cardo. This time he must battle in a fight to end all fights - The Kumite, the most vicious warrior alive - Beast. He must not only battle for his own honor, but also avenge the death of Sun, his mentor, teacher, and spiritual "father", when Sun is spitefully killed by crime boss Duvalier. In order to defeat Beast, destroy Duvalier, and avenge Sun's death, Alex turns to Leung to whom he was indebted in Bloodsport II. Leung directs him to the great shaman, Makato "the Judge", to whom Alex must turn for guidance. The judge teaches him to fully channel the energy in his mind and body in order to rout the Beast in the Kumite...
Agent John Keller goes undercover into the tough prison known as Fuego Penal to find out about the corpses of prisoners disappearing without a trace. There he gets involved in a dangerous tournament arranged by a man named Justin Caesar, where the prisoners are forced fight to death.
