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This movie is a true masterpiece that no action fan should miss. Made in the best period for action movies (1985-1995), it delivers the goods big time in the action department. It doesn't try to be anything but a completely kick-ass action film loaded with explosions, gunfights, explosions, action, action, action, people getting killed, total mayhem....need I go on? The action is superbly done. I don't know the body count in this movie, but I guess you could take Rambo 4 and multiply it with about 1000. It's pure entertainment all the way through, the heroes kick ass big time, most of the bad guys are completely bad to the bone, every action scene is a masterpiece in itself and you simply don't find many so over the top action movies out there with this kind of quality.

They certainly don't make them like this anymore. If you like action and haven't watched this yet, do it now!

I had some expectations for this movie. Jeff Wincott has starred in several great martial arts movies in the past, and the plot looked interesting. It was the typical "people get caught by insane rich guy who has them fight each other to the death while broadcasting it to other rich scumbags who want entertainment" plot again. This outline always has potential, but this time they far from utilized it the way they should. Most important of all: The fight scenes are way too few and way too far between. The point of a movie like this is to have lots of great action, and when that doesn't happen it becomes rather pointless. I don't think the fight scenes were that good either. Wincott was OK, Sven-Ole Thorsen was so-so as the bad guy, and all in all there was nothing memorable in this movie. You will forget about this film an hour after watching.

First of all, I daresay that the rating for this movie is too low. I give it a 5 out of 10, which is more in line with the overall quality of this than the measly 3.3 displayed on the IMDb at the moment. It's of course nowhere near as good as the first Kickboxer, but it doesn't have to be. Sasha Mitchell is no van Damme, but he does his job in a way I won't complain about. One of the good things about this is the return of Michael Qissi as Tong Po. This gives a link to the first film and makes the whole thing more interesting. But most importantly, the fight scenes are decent, the plot is not that bad and if you sit back and relax you'll see that this movie is entertaining if you have the right kind of expectations beforehand. Nothing Oscar-worthy, but as a simple martial arts/action movie this is more than OK for a night's viewing.