Van Damme Not The Man In Boxed in Movie

Rating: 5/10 (15 February 2019)

Kickboxer, only released a couple of weeks after Cyborg, feels just like the score of
other Van Damne films around that time, whether plot, relationship of characters, while it also feels like the other Kickboxer movies too, so it's no surprise, we know where this stories heading. A by the numbers storyline. Van Damne's got the same motivation of character, overthrow the bad guys, and that (spoiler alert) he does. The R rated version really doesn't offer any shock gore, which was a come down, like the R version of Wrong Bet. There's even a Very Frequent Violence warning on the cover for Kickboxer, it's a joke. I actually felt after Cyborg bombed, cinema chains were thinking, " We might as well put Kickboxer out", which was released four weeks after Cyborg. To be honest, Kickboxer isn't anything exceptional. It's a plot of such simplicity and predictability, if you checked out Bloodsport, Wrong Bet, and Kickboxer 2+. Van Damne, a believable actor of emotion, but of course, he's playing Van Damne, avenges this ugly bald headed Asian dude, Tung Po, who crippled his brother in the ring, so Van Damne's character, fighting the impossible odds, thinks "I'm gonna beat him". by pulling off my kickboxing skills. Van Damne again gets to kiss a beautiful girl. Probably the best thing about Kickboxer is it's
rocking track in it's credit ending. It won't be the first time, you've seen fighters rub their boxing mitts with specks of glass too. Unexceptionable and forgettable.