Dragon Fire

It's the future. Laker Powers (Dominic Labanca) arrives in L.A. only to find his brother has been killed after winning big money in a kickboxing match. He then decides to avenge his brother's death by finding the killer. To do that, he becomes a fighter himself. He is trained by Slick (Kisu), an expert in kickboxing.

Just like "Bloodfist" or "Full Contact". If you've seen those two, you already know everything. "Dragon Fire" is a film that contains continuous fight scenes, with small bits of story inserted in the middle. It's entertaining, however, because there is some humour, and many of the fights are well filmed (especially the last one). It's also not very long. However, "Full Contact" is slightly better than this, because the fight scenes there are more powerful.

This was such a dull movie, they shot it at night for 90% of it. Almost this blade runner like feel it seemed someone wanted. This whole futuristic approach was unnecessary. The story is dull and uninspired, the twists and ending you can see a mile away and that last fight in it it so boring and poorly choreographed.

There isn't a single actor in this that I'll remember. The casting of the lead and the guy who trains the lead actor were really poor choices. Most of the movie felt they were fighting in raves with strobe lights and there was way too many strip club like scenes to keep the 5 or so people who watched this interested. Even Steven Seagal would tell them to calm down.

Did this movie make money? I watched it for free and still feel ripped off.

With so many real-life kickboxing champions in various categories listed on the cover of this film, I expected more - the fight scenes are only average (at least they saved the best one for last). Too many of them are what in pro wrestling is often called "squash matches" - one of the opponents dominates the other completely. The leading man can't act at all, but he does have some funny facial expressions; a few of the other fighters are fun in a comic-book way ("the Hulk"). The movie is pointlessly set in the future, which for the director apparently means that he has to shoot everything through a blue filter (or maybe my VHS copy was just bad). It also wants to be a whodunit, as we don't see the face of the man who kills the hero's brother in the beginning. However, you'll easily guess who it was halfway through. (**)

You will not 'find yourself' in this movie, but if you're looking for some good ass-whoopin's, this is a movie for you.

I wouldn't consider the acting in "Dragon Fire" wholly bad (except for Pamela Pond), either; the rest of the cast in this flick were fairly good-as far as martial arts movies go. The director could have had a little more vision, though: the fights were shot and choreographed very well, but the other parts of the movie lacked drama. I think that makes the acting look worse than it really is.

The plot is done-to-death, but it does have a twist at the end.

Again, if you are looking for an action drama the likes of "Saving Private Ryan," you will not enjoy this movie. But if you just want a kick-ass fighting movie for entertainment that you don't have to put a lot of thought into, check it out.

This movie is, well, not bad. The only bad thing here is acting but if you're looking for good fighting scenes they have it here. The story is very common and is the same in other movies like bloodfist 1. If you're looking for cheap movies with brutal martial arts fighting it's all here.