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3.3/10   220 votes
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Emil Kolbe (writer)
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Release Date:
June 1991 (Turkey) more
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Kickboxing champion B.J. is jailed for an accidental murder thanks to the testimony of his arch-nemesis Denard... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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John Barrett ... BJ Quinn

Keith Vitali ... Chad Hunter
Terry Norton ... Carol
Brad Morris ... Jacques Denard
Ted Le Plat ... Willard
Michael Huff ... Robert Bentley
Len Sparrowhawk ... Bob Wiser

Roger Yuan ... Howard
Evan J. Klisser ... Jason

Gavin Hood ... Ken

Patrick Lyster ... Prosecutor (as Paddy Lyster)
Larry Martin ... Judge
Gary Chalmers ... Attorney
Frank Notaro ... Doctor
Tootsie Lombard ... Nurse
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
American Kickboxer 1 (USA) (video box title)
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92 min
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Followed by To the Death (1993) more
Soundtrack:
He's A Man more

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Hahahahahahaha..., 31 January 2006
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Author: davideo-2 from United Kingdom

STAR RATING: ***** The Works **** Just Misses the Mark *** That Little Bit In Between ** Lagging Behind * The Pits

In a plot completely unrelated to the second movie, the unfortunately named BJ Quinn (John Barrett) is imprisoned at the start of the movie for accidentally killing a man at a party. BJ was a world champion kickboxer before this and on his release begins to train his former opponent Chad (Keith Vitali) to take on Denard (Brad Morris) a nasty piece of egotistical work who needs a good sorting out.

Without going into it too much, this is a film that's as big an unintentional (or maybe not) laugh as the sequel. We have a hero with a laughable name who's got to be about senior citizen age by US standards still getting in the ring and duking it out, an over-acting villain who wears, amongst other things, blue spandex trousers and a pink tutu in the ring, along with something that sounds like a Russian accent and another consistent character in the shape of a journalist (Ted Le Plat) who likes to show up at the press conferences and stir up sh!t with fighters he knows could beat him to a pulp. That's not to mention some corny ballads, such as Don't See Me.

It doesn't flow as a story, and it doesn't have much in the way of a narrative flow. Even the fight scenes aren't very well chereographed or convincing, but as a piece of unintentional trash comedy it's (almost) as good as it's sequel. **

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