Kickboxing Academy

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 had the displeasure of watching this film. Frankly, it has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The acting is horrible, the writing pathetic, the dialog is comical, and if it werent for the occasional good looking teenie-bopper babe walking by, this film would make me violently ill. Whatever you do, do not pay to watch this film. Hell, they should pay YOU!

Usually im very easy to please, if you followed of my review you would know that im not hard on the story, and as long as the acting is decent, im please, after all its not a drama, but a martial arts movie. But here, sadly nothing at all can save this mess... The only thing that could come close would be Master June, she is pretty good looking but thats it. The acting is terrible !!!, horribly terrible, they could have engage Russian reading English lines with no clues of what they where reading and it would not have been worst. Then you can think if the actor is so bad, as long as the fights are good... BUT NO, i am a beginner in martial arts, only 6 months of training and i could choreograph EASILY better fights then there. It was worst than having a celebrity on a WWE show where he have to make special care that the celebrity block his punch... Seriously it was so obvious there where going slow because they had no idea what they where doing... The only thing i can say wasen't so bad was the camera man, he manage to deliver, but thats it, give me a good camera man and good equipment and i promise i can make better fight with my friends at the gym... and even not being native English we could be more believable then this guys... I am currently running an enormous marathon of watching every martial movies made, good or bad, and even some that got under 2.0 here on IMDb i enjoyed them(bloodfist 2050, with the great fight Matt Mullins who may not be a very good actor, but knows how to fight) and had fun. But during the entire movie, i had the impression of watching a parody of the karate kid, like a mad TV sketch...

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.