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American Streetfighter

  • 1992
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
297
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American Streetfighter (1992)
ActionThriller

There are battles fought in the ring, in the streets, for love and for honor.... but now Jake Tanner (Gary Daniels) faces the battle of his life. To save his brother (Ian Jacklin) he must ma... Read allThere are battles fought in the ring, in the streets, for love and for honor.... but now Jake Tanner (Gary Daniels) faces the battle of his life. To save his brother (Ian Jacklin) he must make the ultimate sacrifice.There are battles fought in the ring, in the streets, for love and for honor.... but now Jake Tanner (Gary Daniels) faces the battle of his life. To save his brother (Ian Jacklin) he must make the ultimate sacrifice.

  • Director
    • Steven L. Austin
  • Writers
    • David Huey
    • Dom Magwili
    • Phil M. Noir
  • Stars
    • Gary Daniels
    • Ian Jacklin
    • Gerald Okamura
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    3.7/10
    297
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Steven L. Austin
    • Writers
      • David Huey
      • Dom Magwili
      • Phil M. Noir
    • Stars
      • Gary Daniels
      • Ian Jacklin
      • Gerald Okamura
    • 12User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Gary Daniels
    Gary Daniels
    • Jake Tanner
    Ian Jacklin
    • Randy Tanner
    Gerald Okamura
    Gerald Okamura
    • Ogawa
    Tracy Dali
    Tracy Dali
    • Rose
    Kent Ducanon
    • Nick
    Andrew Cooper
    • Billy
    Lorraine Yong
    • Reiko
    Patrick Wait
    • Biker
    • (as Peter Loopis III)
    Dennis Reese
    • Viper
    Roger Yuan
    Roger Yuan
    • Ito
    Shaun T. Benjamin
    Shaun T. Benjamin
    • M.C.
    • (as Shant Benjamin)
    Peter Lupus III
    • Biker
    Kent Moyer
    • Surgeon
    Leslie Morgan
    • Medic
    Tommy Giavocchini
    Tommy Giavocchini
    • Fight Manager #1
    Darnell Davis
    • Fight Manager #2
    David Loo
    • Traitor
    Bernie Rubio
    • Fighter #1
    • Director
      • Steven L. Austin
    • Writers
      • David Huey
      • Dom Magwili
      • Phil M. Noir
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    Wizard-8

    Forgettable

    Gary Daniels has made a number of B-grade martial arts movies that I have enjoyed. Unfortunately, this early effort with him is not among his gems. I am sure he himself is embarrassed by this movie for a number of reasons. Here, he has a haircut (or rather, lack of a haircut) that is unintentionally funny, and he (as well as many of the other actors) have looped their dialogue in the recording studio with voices that often don't match with the mouth movements and body movements of what's on screen. Movie is hastily shot, with very little on screen that you would identify with "American". As for the fights, they are nothing exciting at all. You can safely skip this one.
    3sveknu

    Stay away from this total piece of (any negative word fits here)

    After the total disaster whose name was "Capital Punishment", every person with a tiny bit of sense in his/her mind should think that Gary Daniels would actually try to make a better movie this time. But no! This is nearly as bad. The only thing that's better here is the story. Although it was really bad, it still was progress from the total lack of plot in "Capital Punishment". Here, you could at least understand what was going on. Anyway, when a martial arts movie has a bad story (as they usually do), you focus on the fight scenes. There are lots and lots of them, but unfortunately they all just stink. It had been better if they had come up with ONE decent fight instead of about 15-20 extremely bad ones, but I guess the people behind this movie thought that quantity was the key.

    Well....it wasn't!!
    7Weirdling_Wolf

    'I didn't come here to listen to haiku!'

    Successful businessman Jake Tanner (Gary Daniels) returns home after 10 years to help his troubled brother Randy (Ian Jacklin) who is dangerously involved in illegal fights. American Streetfighter is another DTV banger from burly Blue-eyed Brit Gary Daniels. A shark in the office, Jake throws down equally hard in the ring, bust's up head's on the streets like a boss, Jake Tanner's an expert all-terrain hard ass! If the gaudy sight of a VHS cover emblazoned with an oily-looking muscle mountain on the cover puts a man-sized twizzle in your pizzle American Streetfighter's for you, dude! While the dialogue is excruciatingly awful at times, and some of the lumpy fight scenes are poorly blocked, I still got a kick out of this entertainingly goofy 90s fight-flick. Notable high points for me are Jake's leonine hair, a sweet Ninja Turtles reference, all Gerald Okamura's scenes, and the beaten Daniels heroic return to fearsome fighting form montage is the don!
    4talllwoood13

    laughably bad acting

    The acting in this movie is up there with Tommy Wiseau The Room (2003) or Angel Town starring. Olivier Gruner from 1990. I had to pause the movie and laugh a few times.

    The hair in this movie is glorious for our two heroes, the brother Randy certainly didn't get the role for his acting skills as if I was the director and had a bad day on set it would cheer me up where I'd believe in this movie again listening to Randy or whatever Gary Daniels actor "act". This made me want to watch the first two seasons of Arrow again. As in the only two watchable seasons.

    Alright back to the movie, about 42 minutes in the movie got so silly that I lost any respect in it. Sure I finished it but the 10 year old boy absolutely RUINED the movie. One of them being a tired old cliche, the other being that he helps our hero become a better martial artist. It's like opposite land of the Karate Kid or similar movies where Mr. Miyagi is up on that wooden post doing the kicks and waxing the karate kids car in that decrepit apartment.

    The fighting is good, hence higher than a 2 or 3 this deserves, some diverse shots but how the movie ends is just silly. The musical score is OK too for what it's worth. The bad guy was forgetful and there's some plot in there, some, don't get excited, it's far from the complexity of an adult film but who knows I'll probably watch it again for a laugh as the scene of the boy getting saved from a truck is deserving of some sort of youtube highlight reel of over the top silliness.
    3Gladius77-1

    You Piece of Low-Life!

    The DVD box displayed such phrases as "There are some streets you don't double-cross" and "When war comes home, and home is the streets, you turn to... American STREETFIGHTER". Say that in the movie-trailer voice, and it will sound awesome. I was hoping that this would an overblown action movie, not good, but entertaining enough that I could laugh at how stupid it was. No luck.

    The movie is... mediocre. The story is mediocre, the fight scenes are mediocre, the acting is mediocre. Okay, it picks up a little during a fight at the dojo, which is enjoyably stupid- featuring a motorcycle driving through a door that is quite obviously made of styrofoam, and the one guy in the movie with a gun choosing to pistol-whip people instead of, I dunno, shooting bullets at them. Still, the whole experience is mediocre- It's not bad enough to laugh at, and it's not good enough to enjoy. The whole thing is just boring. Two years later, Street Fighter, starring Van Damme and Raul Julia came out. At least that one you can laugh at.

    And for a movie about street-fighting, there sure is a lot of time spent in the countryside...

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      US video version is about 10 minutes shorter than European version.
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      Referenced in Best of the Worst: Russian Terminator, Ninja Vengeance, and Never Too Young to Die (2013)

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    • Release date
      • April 7, 1994 (Philippines)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Американский боец
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cine Excel Entertainment
      • Silver Screen International
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 29m(89 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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