Product: Bloodsport [VHS] (1988)
Rating: 3.0
Fun!
It is pretty fun. Why? We'll get to that. First the negatives.The acting is mediocre. Almost everyone just puts on a walk-through performance. Not Van Damme (Frank Dux), though. He proves once again that for a guy who usually plays a stereotypical American. In fact, he's quite laughable, to say the least. That forced Karate shrek's gotta go too. Surprisingly, Donald Gib(Jackson) and Bolo Yeung (Chong Li) stand ahead of the others, even though Yeung has maybe as little as 8 minutes of screen time.Now for the plot. We have martial arts graduate Dux aiming to make his sensai (not "shendoshi", Van Damme) proud by a ancient, noble tournament, the Kumite. Of course, how the Kumite can be an ancient and noble tournament when it has an Asian mafia boss as one of the people running it is beyond me. There's also a break for romance that is really appalling.But again, I enjoy this movie. You'd probably have to hear him say that in this supposedly serious scene, but you get my point.Also, there's a good side plot with these two government agents who are sent to capture Dux because he's a valued soldier and thegovernment has a professional concern for him getting hurt in theKumite.Finally, there's fight scenes galore, which was more than likely what the consumer was expecting from this movie. Not the best fight scenes, but still entertaining despite some botched choreography here and there.In short, "Bloodsport" is a terrible, terrible movie that I really like. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.