stevenrotherforth Kick boxer Retaliation.Well I must admit I've seen some ridiculous films in my time but this one takes the biscuit! This movie is so bonkers that I spent the duration of the film with my mouth agape unable to turn it off for fear I may miss more ludicrousness. My mouth actually went dry because I had it open for so long!Because of this you could actually say that this flick is entertaining. I don't know why I found myself unable to turn it off as the acting is terrible, the story (what story?) makes absolutely no sense and the director has no direction.This time Kurt Sloane played by Alain Moussi is kidnapped and carted off back to Thailand and made to fight some dude who is taller than a giraffe on stilts. When he refuses he's thrown into prison for killing Tong Po in the first film. Kurt then proceeds to get tortured before he agrees to baddy Christopher Lambert's terms. Christopher Lambert? Now there's a blast from the past. He still struggles in the acting department sounds like he's losing his voice. Whilst in prison Kurt meets up with old pal Durand played again by Jean Claude Van Damme who also happens to be in there too. Now there's a coincidence? Oh did I mention that JCVD is blind now? Don't ask me why but he is. Even though he still walks about like he can see just fine and his blindness has made even better at the chop socky stuff! Just when you think that the daftness has been piled as high as daftness will go Mike Tyson turns up. Seriously I wanted to turn this off and go to bed but Mike Tyson has a full speaking role. I'm not missing this for all the noodles in Thailand! He can't act but you can tell him that.In all seriousness this film is a bunch of well choreographed but totally far fetched fight scenes strung together with no plot for cohesion. As an added bonus we get rip off scenes from many other movies of the genre but with a bit of nudity thrown in for good measure. The scene with the mirrors from Enter the Dragon is recreated with two half naked girls sporting luminous lipstick! I did mention that this movie is ludicrous!So I made it to the inevitable big fight at the end and boy it doesn't disappoint. Sadly there's no Oscars awaiting this movie but it could win the award for most ridiculous movie fight of all time. The big baddy is played by the really big fella from Game of Thrones. He's so huge he makes Ivan Drago look vertically challenged. Weighing in at 400Ibs and on a cocktail of steroids the character is so strong he punches Kurts wife into a coma. Don't worry fight fans she wakes up a few scenes later with absolutely no side effects. In fact everyone in this movie who gets the stuffing kicked out of them miraculously suffers no bruises or grazes. In the end fight Kurt gets punched, kicked, thrown around and stabbed. He even dies! Yes you read that right. He actually dies and comes back to life before opening a large can of whoop ass on the man mountain.In all my years growing up with straight to video martial arts movies I have never witnessed anything as crazy as this. But for all its silliness it does have a certain charm. It's far from great. Not even average but it does draw you in and holds you there. Problem is I feel a whole lot dumber for watching it. I think I've killed off the last few remaining brain cells I had.

nikola17 Come On What's So Bad About This Kickboxer Remake Franchise ? I Still Don't Understand why this gets Negative Reviews It Gets 5.0 ??? Can We Get It A Lot Higher ? This Sequel I Would Say It's A LOT Better Then Kickboxer 2 The Road Back (1991) Sasha Mitchell As David Sloane, Screw Original Franchise Expect for First Kickboxer (1989) Because That Was Well Made. But Then Kickboxer 2 The Roadback Kurt Sloane and Eric Sloane Died from Tong Po Then Only Brother Left Is David Sloane when they never Talked About David Sloane In First Kickboxer Movie and Kickboxer 3: Art of War, Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor (1994) SUCKED Then To Kickboxer 5 The Redemption Mark Dacacos David Sloane died Original Franchise has gone to over Place doesn't know where it wants to go. But this Remake of 2nd Kickboxer was Better then Original Sequel to Kickboxer: Roadback I Thought Story Doesn't Drift Around. I Thought This has A LOT OF FUN then to Previous Kickboxer Vengeance, I Thought Story Had a GREAT CONTINUE from First Film, I Thought First Remake was great as Original but bit Disappoint but it didn't destroy it. New Cast New Villain Who Is Much Bigger and Tougher then to Tong Po, Mongkut (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) Briggs (Mike 'Iron' Tyson) Christopher Lambert Is In this sequel Witch I Wanted to see Gina Carano back in Sequel for her to Kick ass but she is not in Sequel. Christoper Lambert Is Good in this movie he sounds like a lot like Raiden from Mortal Kombat film, he is mostly in movie he is not wasted. I Thought sadly thing is Van Damme is not in it as much he is in it, but he does what he does best in movie he is trying best, he is not really much in movie sadly like in First Remake. but it doesn't destroy or ruin this movie in peaces. it has a lot of action and kicking ass in it still but a lot more, I Thought Plot Went Really Well. Funny thing is UFC Fighter Women Paige Vanzant was going to be one of Villains in this movie as Gamon But she had a fight coming up so then it's Jessica Jann playing Gamon witch i thought eh sadly can't choose another UFC Women Fighter. Plot is really good but if you haven't seen Kickboxer Vengeance you need to watch it because theirs little spoiler in this movie. It has been eighteen months since Kurt Sloane (Alain Moussi) killed Tong Po and avenged the death of his brother Eric. Now Kurt Is a professional mixed martial artist like UFC or MMA show In Opening has Renato Sobral is a retired Brazilian wrestler and mixed martial artist a former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion. Kurt Wins Later On U.S. Marshals Kidnapped Kurt After the Fight, Kurt is met by two U.S. Marshals Who Inform Him That he Must Return to Thailand to be implicated in the death of Tong Po. Awakening in a Prison in Thailand, Kurt meets Thomas Tang Moore (Christopher Lambert), The Mastermind Behind the Underground Tournament, Thomas Was Telling Kurt After He Defended Tong Po. Kurt Is a New Champion But instead with Kurt Returning Home, Moore Needed to Find a New Champion. Moore offers Kurt to Fight The New Champion, Mongkut, a 6'8" 400-lb. fighter. Kurt finds himself Taunted by Crawford, Tong Po's former right hand man who is working for Moore. Moore offers Kurt $1 million to fight Mongkut, but Kurt refuses. Kurt is Stuck in Prison Later On Kurt goes to Prison in Thailand here goes Briggs Mike Tyson, you have fight Scene Between Kurt and Briggs Witch Is Pretty Cool But I Wanted To Have Round 2 of them fighting, Problem is Fight scenes have Slow Motion it doesn't need to much Slow Motion. after Kurt also soon learns that his Muay Thai teacher, Durand (Jean Claude Van Damme) always Loved Van Damme. he is now training some of the prisoners, but reveals that for his troubles, he has been blinded. i am ok ? why Blind him ? why because in my opinion they made his character like Stick From Daredevil. I Didn't like how they made him Blind in this movie ? what for ? because his character is Blind he won't able to do much sadly. but van damme does a lot things in this movie still but he is not really in it that much as previous film. and again you have Fabricio Werdum again in this movie Fighting with Kurt and Training not much in movie. (Sara Malakul Lane) Liu they kidnap his her if doesn't take Tournament she will die so he is forced to take fight. and you have JCVD and Mike Tyson Fight Scene together not much sadly if they didn't blind JCVD Character we could have bigger and longer fight scene with JCVD and Mike Tyson in movie, Specially sword Fight scene with JCVD and Christopher Lambert fun scene, Jean-Claude proves that he still got the moves! There are many MMA stars that appear in the movie as well and this powers the whole fun. What makes the flick utterly entertaining is the almost half an hour long final one on one scenes between Alain Moussi and (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson), a.k.a. the Mountain from Game of Thrones. This is arguably one of the most terrific one on one fighting scenes that I have recently watched. a lot action is fun specially you have Dark Blue scene is like From Mirror Smashing Scene From Enter the Dragon, Witch Looked Great I Love That Shot form Movie. Alain Moussi does a lot of great fun scenes he is talented in his martial arts and his stunts. I Thought Movie Is A LOT OF FUN and a lot of kicking ass it's very non stop action a lot of unreal things in movie but it's very entering, Fun Final Showdown. it's a lot of fun in this movie i had fun a lot, and it's great Remake Sequel that makes a lot sense To Original 2nd Movie of Kickboxer 2 Roadback crap. I Really Wished they didn't kill off Tong Po in First Kickboxer Vengeance have him back in this with another showdown, because in original Kickboxer (1989) flick was going to continue Van Damme but then Van Damme is too Expense they changed and re-written again for Original Kickboxer 2 Road back then that's when nothing made sense of David Sloane not brother been talked or Mention about ? then Tong Po Comes Back In Sequel, If Directors or someone involved in Original Sequel has a lot more money to back back Van Damme, then Van Damme as Kurt and Tong Po have another sequel Showdown. Now If In Kickboxer Vengeance Never Killed off Tong Po then it's great to have him defeat Tong Po Again In This Sequel. But In Bigger Fight Showdown In Showdown. But Anyway But Has Much Bigger Villain Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson was most great biggest Tough to Defeat Villain In Movie was a lot fun Believe Me DON'T PAY ATTENTION to another reviews or Anything like that if your DIE HARD FAN OF VAN DAMME or Kickboxer Franchise Fan who hated Original Sequels and Who Loves Kickboxer (1989) Must Watch This People Who Hated Kickboxer 2 Roadback. This Sequel is A lot Better.

jackmeat My quick rating - 5,0/10. Ok, I will admit I like these types of movies, regardless of how unbelievable they are (without spoiler, this one goes over the top). The story is the typical "I am not going to XXXX, anymore" Fill in the X with fight, crime, kill, whore yourself out, among other things to make the story of stopping something only to be forced back into it. In this case, tournament fighting. Well, there it is. The secondary characters of Mike Tyson and Christopher Lambert actually were used well. And then there is Jean Claude Van-Johnson....if you get that joke, you want to see this movie, if not, you probably aren't interested. The fight scenes are done quite well and are not filmed in hyper edit mode which seems to be the norm these days. Realistically, this movie should score below a 5, but the reason it should be lower is the reason I gave it 5. Once you see the movie, you will know just why when you roll your eyes and say "how stupid is that" Well that is what I did, and for a movie to actually get that reaction out of me, bonus points. Funny, just noticed, IMDB has it at a 5.0 as well lol.

Lucas Gunnarson I absolutely love JCVD. He's one of my movie heroes and I'll pay to watch anything he's in... But this one is quite bad. Horrible script with even worse dialogues. You can't help but laugh at some parts. Not even JCVD's charisma, and Tyson's guest appearance can make the almost 2 hours of the movie any less painful.I watched the first Kickboxer when I was a kid and it was one of my favorite movies, so it is quite sad to see the state the franchise is in nowadays. I mean, seriously, the final fight scene?? It is as grotesque as it is unreal haha To sum things up:---- Spoilers ahead ----Kurt is trying to make a name for himself on MMA, gets kidnapped by Plummer's character (horrible acting, by the way), and is forced to fight a Mongkut ("The Mountain" from Game of Thrones) after he punches Kurt's wife into a coma with a punch to the stomach (wtf?!?!? hahaha). Like, absolutely no story, no motive, and oh, Mongkut is supposed to revenge Tong Po for also absolutely no reason! No connection to him what-so-ever. And his "trainer" is a nerdy "scientist" that keeps injecting him with adrenaline shots. Oh lord, what a mess. Please don't waste your time unless you're JCVD huge fan like I am.