My favourite Van Damme movie

Rating: 8/10 (16 August 2007)

Kurt Sloan (Van Damme) is corner man for his brother Eric who is the Kickboxing world champion, after beating every one there is Eric decides to go to Thailand where kick boxing was created too fight the people who know it best. unfortunately for Eric Thailand decides that he should fight Tong Po the best in the country, Kurt tries to persuade Eric not to fight after he see's Tong Po warming up by kicking a brick pillar, Eric thinking hes the best decides to fight and ends up getting paralysed. of course Kurt gets annoyed by this and decides that the only way he can feel better is if he starts training in Muay Tai so he can put Tong Po through the same pain his brother went though or something like that.
When Van Damme did this movie he was on the top of his game, he had great speed and strength and excellent martial arts capability, apparently he could bench press 165 kgs.
The fight scenes in this movie are fantastic i especially liked the fight in the bar and the final fight between Kurt and Tong Po, this movie really shows Van Damme's talent as a martial artist mainly with Muay Tai and Kickboxing but with hints of Karate. (Van Damme was European middle weight Karate champion back in the 80's) I think if you like too watch action movies for gun fights and explosions then you probably won't like this movie, but if you like Martial arts movies with Jackie Chan,Jet Li and people like that and you fancy something different watch kick boxer This is a Damme (lol) good movie and i would recommend it.
I give it 8 out of 10