Product: Bloodsport [VHS] (1988)
Rating: 5.0
Classic for the decade
My friends and i have all been training for over a decade and cheezy movies like this were some of our early if somewhat lame influences. This movie was one of the first mainstream flicks to show this much on screen fighting brutality.{ie the shin breaking scene}. It was also one of the first to sort of respect different styles. If you are a big martial arts fan you know it is hard to find an open minded stylist.Anyway Van damne doesnt even try to act in this movie which gives it an endearing innocence. Alright i will even admit that the fighting is kinda lame but as everyone before me has said its just a fun guy, face punching kinda movie. If you can forgive the typecast 80's cheese you love what is considered the benchmark of eighites martial arts flicks.On a side note a did a little research and discovered that frank dux might be a fraud you should check out some websites about him . They might not be true but they are entertaining at the least