Kickboxing Academy

This very forgetable film is intended for the under 17 year old crowd (male and females alike). The kick boxing is pretty tame stuff and otherwise this film would rate a "G". The perky blonde lead, Donna Barnes is the sole reason I went easy on the fast forward button. Look for this film slotted for late afternoon TV. My three stars reflects that the film was professionally made and the pre-teens may actually like the cartoon action.

Q: What did the five fingers of Kickboxing Academy say to the face of cinema? A: Slap, bitch!!!

Never have so many worn out clichés been tossed into a bottomless inferno of stupidity and humiliation. This movie sucks on nearly every single level you could possibly imagine. Acting, choreography, writing (oh God, the writing), photography.....and so on.

Here's how to make your movie look good: play Kickboxing Academy right before the screening of your own movie. Even if the only thing in your film is a bird pooping on a mailbox, your movie will look better than this. MUCH better.

I thought the movie was awesome myself, I taped it and watch it at least once a week. It found itself right at home with my Karate movie collection. I thought Christopher Khayman Lee was excellent in it and I hope to see another movie with him in it sometime (hopefully in the near future). I thought that the action was good and that it had some interesting twists that I didn't think would occur the first time I saw it.

I was flipping through the channels one unproductive day and I happened upon this flick on Showtime. I don't know why I stopped flipping when I came to it. It was just one of those crazy things that happens. But I'm glad I stopped because I witnessed one of the absolute worst movies I've ever seen in my life.

From what I got out of it, the plot is a Karate Kid retread involving a Bad News Bears type of karate school and the big and mean kids from the evil school. Why is there always an evil school? Anyway, if you've seen any teen sports movie since 1985 you pretty much know how this one turns out.

The thing that caught me was the acting. It was so astonishingly bad that I was wondering if they were doing it on purpose. I think the kids they hired were the children of the crew because by the looks of things they couldn't afford real child actors. And there was one truly shocking thing in this whole mess. Steven Bauer! How the hell did Manny from Scarface get himself into this. Did he owe a life debt to the director. My God!

Anyway, if you're truly in the mood for a god awful movie, and we all get in that mood sometime, then by all means check out Kickboxing Academy. You won't be disapointed.

This movie was a pleasant surprise. Pretty good acting, a fun story, great action,and some really funny moments. My expectations weren't too high for this film; but it was truly entertaining. I would recommend this movie to any family that wants to watch something together and have a great time.