stormofwar 1. "Rip 'em" sounds A lot like "Rip one".2. Kicking the side of a limousine hard enough will not only embed footprints on exterior of the vehicle, but will also cause it to veer off course.3. Terry Bollea is so awesome that once said limousine parks, he explodes 10 feet into the area from the top of it.4. The Double Axe Handle is the most lethal move in wrestling.5. Lister (who plays the Big Bad Evil Guy Zeus) growls and grunts a lot, and still manages to be a more coherent than Bollea.6. All-American Heroes have little brothers that wind up crippled. All of them.7. Training montages include the villain grunting a lot while the hero helps his crippled little brother learn to walk again.8. Weight bars have the accuracy of a well-aimed bullet.9. Destroying the evil guy's training facility while being video taped does not lead to the hero being arrested.10. Evil TV executives are more like pirates than they care to admit.11. "Jock ass" is a metaphor for everything wrong with our society.12. Pushups in tighty-whities(Yellowsies?) are sexy.13. The script writers were high off of Vince McMahon's burgeoning ego.14. UFC has nothing on "Battle of the Tough Guys".15. Jesse Ventura looks like the Prince of Arabia.16. Having your turncoat girlfriend beat the snot out of her can be cured by some of the lamest one-liners in cinema history.17. The term "dookie" must always have a seen with certain visuals to emphasize how funny it is.18. Kurt Fuller did a full invocation of Shatner before filming.19. "Jock ass" is the greatest insult known to man.20. "Harley and Me, you and the tree" needs to be uttered before launching any mook into an oak.I actually don't outright hate this movie, but there are some movies that are best left forgotten. As you can imagine, i loved this movie as a kid, but there are some shadows that are best left in the closest. There are worse films, but not many.

nisim7 I typically do not make absolute statements about anything in life. That being said, I am making an exception today. No Holds Barred is by far the best piece in all of cinema history...nay, in all of history. From the day that the first caveman impersonated his neighbor, to now, nothing has surpassed NHB. If Shakespeare was alive today, he would weep at its goodness and likely commit suicide knowing that he could produce nothing that would approach its greatness.The movie stars Hulk Hogan, the man who single handily won Operation Desert Storm for America, by defeating both Sgt. Slaughter and the Iron Sheik. Hogan's performance was so great, that when he was automatically offered the Oscar the day after release, he gave the statue a figure-four leg lock and said to give it to Daniel Day-Lewis.Hogan aside, which it is very difficult to dismiss him at all, this movie also has the greatest single scene in all of cinema. When Hogan, who is at the end under the constant barrage from Zeus (yes, Hogan did destroy a god), he looks up at his brother for encouragement. His brother, who is paralyzed from an earlier attack from Zeus, moves a single pinky. That is all Hogan needed to "Hulk" up. That line is still the most quoted line in history. I mean, think about it. We all move our pinkys everyday. The rest is history.

Frank Markland Hulk Hogan stars as a champion wrestler (A real acting stretch...) named Rip, who is forced to defend his honor, his title and his girlfriend from a greedy corporation that wanted him to sign for their network (Because wrestling sells!) however when Rip declines, the network gets a circuit fighting championship called (and i'm totally serious) "Battle of the tough guys" who's champion Zeus (Played by Tiny Lister Jr) maybe the deadliest man alive. Rip refuses to fight, until his brother is attacked and put in a hospital. No Holds Barred is pretty much what I expected from Vince McMahon production starring the least versatile actor in the action genre (Hogan) it is basically lots of unintentional humor, tons of awkward sequences, a couple okay action sequences and tons of stupidity. In other words it's not unlike wrestling itself, so I give it a fair rating mainly because anyone renting this knows what they're getting. The movie is cheap but well made enough for what it is and really wrestling fans will probably enjoy this. I myself found this to be ultimately hilarious. They're are moments of such absurdity that you only chuckle to yourself. (Such as the way Hogan jumps 20 feet in the air after being stuck in a limo, how he forces a guy to crap himself and of course the way Hogan recites from his cuecard. (I.E:"I'm not going to be around when this check clears!") No Holds Barred is a lot of fun, true, though it's mainly because of how ridiculous it is. Fans of camp should really enjoy this clever clinker.* * out of 4-(Fair)

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) I don't why the critics gave "No Holds Barred" such a hard time. I think this movie is a hit! Hulk Hogan is a great wrestler, and his acting skills are very natural. Too much type cast was the cause of the bad reviews. Everyone in the sports world deserve a chance of doing something different. I don't typecast anyone who was in a non-acting job. Playing Rip, Hogan does all his regular wrestling moves as usual, his art of sensitivity is always put into place, I like that. I liked the part where he ripped through the limo top and the driver used the bathroom in the limo while Rip crushes the bad guys daintily. Joan Severance("See No Evil, Hear No Evil") plays Rips lover who really knows how to flaunt it. I didn't like the part where she was sexually assaulted, and Rip got him good. Should have done him a leg drop for the attempted rape. Tiny Lister, "ZEUS"! as his namesake was menacing all the way, smashing the cinder blocks, killing everyone in his path. I was disturbed by his cold whisper when he says his name. The real bad guy was that network executive, boy he made my blood boil. He was far worse than Zeus. This movie was good, the action was all there, the critics should be body slammed! Rating 3 out of 5 stars.