A Arena da Morte

Lou Ferrigno at his BEST!

Lou Ferrigno has done it all. He was The Hulk in the 70's, Hercules in the 80's, and a hulking cage fighter in "Cage". Put in a coma after Vietnam, Billy Thomas(Ferrigno) and his buddy, Scott Thomas(Reb Brown) are about to help run a bar in California. If you thought that war was traumatic, try an arson attack that killed the owner. The associates behind the attack gets Billy and have him trained to be a fighter against the reigning champion. Scott goes on every end to find Billy. Not only did he dethrone the champion, they would end up with the money to rebuild the bar. Lou Ferrigno did well with the research on behalf of the veterans who experience the trauma of war and recouping. But I do know that Ferrigno is deaf. Most people don't know that. A very good movie. A keeper! 4.5 out of 5 stars!

I expected to get some laughs from a movie I thought would be like Schwarzeneggers Commando or something like that but I was amazed at what it actually is, a movie about a powerful friendship between two vietnam veterans (Lou Ferrigino and Reb Brown), one of them saved the other while getting shot in the head and now hence he has the mentality of a boy. Reb Brown being the one Lou saved he now repays his debt by taking care of him.

At the same time two low mobsters have lost money fighting on an illegal cage match and need a new fighter. They run into Brown and Ferrigino and later persuade Ferrigino to wrestle out in the cage because he doesn't understand what it actually means. Brown try to find him to save his one and only friend and it all ends in a terrific climax. Good action and some reasonable good acting.

Is somewhere between a six and a ten.

Low budget but good first action film for Ferrigno.

If you like Bloodsport, this is a must see, I love this film and it's sequel, Lou's real voice was used unlike most of his other films back then like Hercules or Sinbad, he does a fantastic job for the role he was given, I think the storyline is great and Reb Brown and James Shigeta as well as other in the cast did very well. Lots of great cameos, to me it's a fun and at times grabs your heart sad film and I've watched it a few times over the years, Amazon is the best place to watch it, most streams or videos look terrible, the vhs tapes aren't too hard to find, the dvds are extremely rare and as of right now no Blu-rays have been released, hopefully they someday release a double feature!