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Movie is so short it doesn't even meet the 80 minute mark. This movie is what it is, a typical story about two friends who become enemies, have to fight each other, and get involve with some really bad guys. It is what it is, short but if you have 70 minutes to spare, give it a watch. I think the Asian kid from the Goonies is in this movie.

This film is pure genius. What more could you possibly say about a movie that offers not only Bolo Yeung in drag, but also a break dancing fight sequence and martial arts fighting dwarfs? "Breathing Fire" is possibly the funniest martial arts film of all time, I really can not recommend it highly enough.

The film's storyline is largely irrelevant but goes something like this: Annie comes to David for help when her parents are murdered. David then takes Annie to stay with his brother and his two sons, Charlie and Tony. When David suffers an injury, he instructs Charlie and Tony in his unique martial arts style so that they can protect Annie from her parents' murderers.

The plot truly is thinner than Nicole Ritchie, but this only adds to the enjoyment. By far the most entertaining aspect of the film is the padding between the set pieces. Some of my favourite moments include a Karate Kid inspired training montage, complete with bowling balls and suspended watermelons. I also loved the ridiculous flashback to Vietnam (in which the main characters look exactly the same as they do 15 or so years later!) and I almost wet myself when Mickey started to break dance - while painting a wall.

Bolo Yeung fans can not afford to miss the opportunity to see their hero kick ass while robbing a bank - in drag. Unfortunately for Bolo, he doesn't have a huge role and has to suffer the indignity of being beaten up by the 100 pound kid from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Nevertheless, the chance to see Bolo wearing a floral dress more than compensates. The fight scenes that don't include Bolo are also memorable. Mickey, the break dancer, positively steals the show by demonstrating his dancing martial arts skills in rhinestone covered leather (no less). The fight involving the kick ass dwarfs is also one of the more memorable that I've seen in a long time.

The acting is appalling to the extent that it defies belief and the dialogue makes Showgirls look like All About Eve. And yet, I can't think of a better way to waste 75 minutes of your time than watching this marvellous piece of crap. Highly recommended!

This movie did suck. Bad! But I can't stop watching it because I know one of the actors. Eddie Saavedra and I used to serve on the same ship in the Navy, and true to the picture in the movie, he is a phenomenal martial artist. My only regret is I have lost contact with him when he used to be one of my heroes, because of this movie, and because he taught me almost everything I knew about the job we did together in the Navy when he was my supervisor. He really has talent. It was also great to see Jonathan Ke Quan acting again. He turned out to be quite a fighter himself. One thing I would definitely pay money to see is a better quality movie made with this duo put together again. "Breathing Fire" was definitely a "B" movie, but with the right directors, and better funding, Eddie and Jonathan could really shine.

This movie is a real sleeping pill,it is awful. The plot isn't so very good and the script is awful. I didn't like this movie because the fighting scenes are awful

and the plot and the script sucks. The actors isn't so good. This movie is lame so i give it 2 out of 10.

Annie, a young teenage girl who was a witness to the murder of her parents by cold-hearted bank robbers seeks out David Moore, her father's old buddy from their fighting days together in Vietnam for protection as her father had warned against going to the police. David takes her to his brother Michael's house, not realizing Michael is secretly the leader behind the bank heist and the murder of Annie's parents. Michael also has two sons, one natural and one adopted from Vietnam, who befriend Annie and eventually receive martial arts instructions from David so they can aid him in her protection.

They say if you cannot say anything good, don't say anything at all. If I were to abide by that rule, I'd have very little to say with regards to this one. Jonathan Ke Quan actually does a decent job as Charlie Moore who really is the only truly likable character in the film in that's he's funny and likes to have fun making him feel more real as a character than any other person in the movie. Also the training scenes and the fights are surprisingly well executed.

It's too bad that the plot is filled with gaping plot holes (the worst of which is characters disappearing from the scene for long periods of time with no adequate explanation as to their whereabouts), the rest of the acting cast is atrocious and the fights, while shot nicely, are hardly convincing in reality especially in the case of the Moore brothers showdown with Bolo Yeung, who's all but wasted here as another faceless henchman.

Forgettable.

(1991) Breathing Fire MARTIAL ARTS ACTION

Do you remember that little Chinese kid in "Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom" Indy adopt as Short Round! Well, he's older now and one of the two stars in this low budget entertaining martial arts movie. This pass is not for the story line and the acting, since it's mediocre as ever, but for the well choreographed fights which one of the problems with many martial art films is that they look too fake, since upon fighting no one hardly touches with one another. In this one we get to see what some of these characters can do which is obviously too far fetch in real life, but at last it's full contact and without the use of any CGI or wiring.

I watch this movie every weekend because of the sheer humorous acting and the brutal fighting. the fighting is alot better than most recent movies...but, story cannot play out correctly due to really bad acting. I bought this movie for $5 on DVD at K-mart and it's possibly the greatest 5 bucks I've ever spent. There are some scenes where I'll just break out and laugh at because Data from "The Goonies" (Jonathon ke quan) beats the tar out of a 300 lb muscle man. If's you find this movie,by all means buy it. It's one of the funniest movies i've ever seen...sadly, it isn't supposed to be.

I watch this movie every weekend because of the sheer humorous acting and the brutal fighting. the fighting is alot better than most recent movies...but, story cannot play out correctly due to really bad acting. I bought this movie is cheap and it's possibly the greatest 5 bucks I've ever spent. There are some scenes where I'll just break out and laugh at because Data from "The Goonies" (Jonathon ke quan) beats the tar out of a 300 lb muscle man. If's you find this movie,by all means buy it. It's one of the funniest movies i've ever seen...sadly, it isn't supposed to be.

I too served on that ship at the same time, except I fixed your gear. Remember when they showed the movie in the lounge? no one would leave him alone after that. I was actually fairly good friends with him at the time, and he finally opened up about making it.

True, it's a terrible movie. But, Bolo Yeung. That alone takes up a lot of the lousy.

Sure it's a b-movie. Bolo Yeung is the headliner, for crying out loud. If you watch it looking for top notch editing, plotting, and cinematography; well, you're looking in the wrong place. If you watch it looking for martial arts fight scenes stitched together with a few connecting scenes, then there are worse ways to spend an afternoon, aren't there?

Breathing fire is one of those films most people will write off as a bad kung-fu movie on first viewing. But after you've watched it a few times you too will see the light and never watch 'bad movies' in the same way again. The plot is ridiculous and the acting is at best cheesy, but that is what makes the film so good. There are countless goofs,pointless scenes and plot holes but spotting them is half the fun. The martial arts aren't all that great, but there are some memorable moves such as the 'bowling ball'. You also get to see the two lead characters on the receiving end of a kick in by two midgets which is pretty funny. All in all next time you're rifling through the second hand videos and this catches your eye don't hesitate to purchase this fantastic film, I guarantee it will give you, and your friends hours of fun.

I was an actor in this picture and after viewing it...I must say that it is a CRAPPY movie. They even dubbed someone else's voice over mine! It was the first acting role that I ever had. I did love the food they fed us. Chinese! Mmmm! It was fun working with the kid from Goonies and Bolo. Bolo didn't speak much English, but he's a great guy! I got a lot of laughs watching this movie. The acting was OSCAR quality...Oscar Meyer...hot dog with artificial filling!

This is supposed to be a martial arts movie,but the story and fighting scenes are so bad that it just gets boring. I picked this movie up for one reason,because Bolo Yeung was in it,but it turned out that he didnt have any real fighting scenes in it,so all i can say is that this is a piece of crap. Extremely bad story and acting and the fight scenes is not more than a Karate kid look a like.

At some point someone needs to loudly signify the importance of the 1990s to the continued success and interest in the cheaply made, lowest common denominator DTV actioner that keeps, Wesley Snipes, Luke Goss and, Danny Trejo in Kendal Mint Cakes! They should loudly hail, Matthias Hues, Lauren Avedon and, Lorenzo Lamas for laying down all the heavy duty DTV groundwork that made, Frank Grillo possible!!!

'Breathing Fire' begins in an appropriately heated fashion, introducing the high-kicking Moore siblings, Charlie (Key Huy Quan) and Tony (Eddie Saavedra) busting out some pretty audacious moves at a martial arts tournament, whilst unbeknownst to them, their duplicitous father, Michael (Jerry Trimble) is in the chaotic midst of a gold bullion heist which features iconic Kung Fu destroyer, Bolo Yeung in drag, and so begins a blissfully bizarre 90s martial arts opus that zestfully operates in the phantasmagorical B-movie multiverse whereby both dastardly villains and stalwart heroes alike are all Olympian martial arts virtuosi!

The febrile, episodic narrative has its psychotronic kudos increased by aggressively inserting a Vietnam flashback amongst all the bodacious B-Boy dance moves, excruciating Kung Fu training montages and a brief, hilarious bar fight with an especially bellicose pair of agile little people that would look entirely appropriate in an Andy Sidaris movie! 'Breathing Fire' has a hypnotic, Ed. Wood Jr. Whimsicality, the witheringly duff dialogue, painfully monochromatic line readings from uniformly remedial 'actors', stridently raising this frenzied fight flick to the vertiginous, higher echelon of top tier bad movie genius!

Curiously, Bolo Yeung's character 'Thunder' seems ill named, being little more than a minor squall at best. The mighty one turns up, speed-flexes his elephantine pecs, hurls some terrified dudes around in his patented histrionic manner, and outside of looking pretty audacious in a frock you wouldn't know he was there!!?? In conclusion, 'Breathing Fire' is an odd duck, and having three directors probably didn't help matters. While the enjoyably frantic fight scenes are plentiful and pretty gnarly looking, the young protagonists are shrill, fatuous, and frequently disagreeable, to be quite blunt, Tony & Charlie Moore are two of the most irritating appendages since Material Madge bought some schmancy new face plugs, their innate dweebyness ultimately tainting what could have been an awesomely trashy fight flick, but there's no doubting the bouncy, pulse-pounding excellence of Paul 'Bloodsport' Hertzog's epic score.