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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
Better Than I Expected., 2 March 2006
Author:
Space_Mafune from Newfoundland, Canada
A Martial Arts fighter named Masahiro Kai (Yasuaki Kurata), retired for
years from the free fighting form, wants someone else to carry on his
legacy so he seeks a student he can train. His first choice, a young
punk, turns out to be too filled with anger and violence to ever amount
to anything. He has better luck with young Ryu Tenmei (Simon Yam) who
starts out seeking revenge against a group of punks who attacked him
and his girlfriend, including Kai's former student, but soon comes to
put his hatred aside and replace it with an appreciation and
understanding of the true benefits of adopting the martial arts
philosophy and lifestyle. Soon Ryu is good enough to fight in the
deadly World Championship free-fighting tournament and the result
proves shocking and unexpected, a result that may force Kai out of
retirement and back into the fighting field seeking retribution for his
fallen student. But can Kai possibly succeed against the powerful,
devilish Chong Lee (Bolo Yeung)?
Honestly I like BLOODFIGHT far more than BLOODPSORT even though it has
largely the same plot. There's a more believable edge to BLOODFIGHT I
feel and it's helped by the fact it's an actual Hong Kong based film
presentation. The fighting is quite good but even better is the
emotional range the performers show managing to overcome language
barriers with strong use of body language and the extra time and
attention given to building up characters, something decidedly lacking
in BLOODSPORT. Still there are problems. I believe they made a mistake
filming this in English because most of the performers simply had not
mastered the language even though it was an interesting exercise to
watch them attempt it and a nice try on the part of those behind the
film to presumably reach a larger audience and perhaps tap into some of
the financial success BLOODSPORT enjoyed. Finally the resolution isn't
fully satisfying as the punishment doesn't quite seem to match the
crime that was perpetrated. That said, I ended up liking this far more
than I expected I would.
3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
nice circus music, 6 January 2006
Author:
rottingcarrot (rottingcarrot@hotmail.com) from Toronto Canada
Bloodfight It's basically a shameless rip off of bloodsport but with
some extras.....Circus music. That's right completely inappropriate
circus music is played for long segments of this movie. Why? I would
really like to know but it did have me chuckling. terrible acting no
doubt in part by the fact that all the actors speak their lines in
English when they no doubt couldn't speak a word of English without
intensive coaching.
It wasn't looking good until Stuart Steen AKA Stuart Smith enters,
playing the part of the cocky street gang leader. You think billy bob
thornton gives spellbinding performances? LOL. Think again! Stuart
Smith is our new god. Who cares who J Low is dating? I want to know
what country Stuart Smith is the president of!!! He is an unstoppable
actor who will give his all NO MATER WHAT! Long live Stuart Steen!!!
AkA stuart Smith AKA a bunch of other names! He is the man! Anyway I
have watched this movie more than once. It definitely has its slow
parts but if you like crap you'll like this!
4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Fantastic!!!!, 20 October 1999
Author:
AlbertV79 from New York
I got to see Bloodfight and I have to say it is one of the best tournament-revenge films I have seen. The one that shocked me was that this film was shot in English. Yasuaki "Shoji" Kurata, Simon Yam Tat-wah and most of the stars, who are from Hong Kong, spoke English. Not dubbed, which was quite a surprise. The fight scenes were great as well. I recommend this to any martial arts film fan!!!!
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Stylish 80's revenge movie, 1 May 2011
Author:
Labia_Mirage from Deutschland
"Blood Fight" is an unexpectedly serious action flick that has some good, at times artistic camera work. Unlike most Chinese martial arts films, this one does not have the awful English overdubs that make these films so bad. The Chinese actors are actually speaking English, albeit with heavy accents, and it lends an extra level of quality to the production. The story is good, if not very original. A martial arts master becomes emotionally destroyed when his young protégé loses his life to a brutal opponent in the ring. Kung Fu cult icon, Bolo Yeung is his usual demonic self as the fighter who takes the kid's life. Basically a revenge flick, but with some decent character development and higher production values. Featuring some great shots of Hong Kong, both in daylight, and the neon-saturated nights. The fight technique is mainly kick-boxing, and at times things get quite bloody. Worth a look, especially for fans of Yeung Bolo.
1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Not that bad, if you're in the mood..., 17 April 2003
Author:
Jared from Canada
As far as low-budget, poorly made martial arts movies go, this one isn't
bad...it has every element of the classical martial arts movie: an
underground tournament, an aging sensei, an eager young student, an evil
villain who kills said student so that the sensei has to overcome his
alcoholism and seek revenge...
If you like acting, this isn't the movie for you. If you like cheesy
fights
and training montages, check it out.
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Pretty standard fare, with a few bright spots in it., 31 March 2004
Author:
aggie80 from United States
Nothing particularly notable about this one. Plot is almost identical to
VanDamme's Bloodsport which came out a year earlier, even down to Bolo Yueng
as the bad guy and the retrieval of a belt/headband. I see the cityscape
training runs as very reminiscent of "Rocky." Actually, the acting was
probably better than most of the genre and there are some great thugs being
beat up on about three occassions. I would have liked it better if they had
resolved that issue before the end of the movie.
The one thing I did find interesting was the complete Naihanchi Shodan Kata
(Japanese version is Tekki Shodan) done by the main character on the top of
a hillside looking out over the city. And the contrast between the bad
guy's wonderful training facilities and the good guy's traditional tools is
a good message, showing how hard work overcomes good facilities.
My biggest gripe is the amount of devastation absorbed by the characters in
the final fight without dying!
2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Interesting for its ambience, 11 February 1999
Author:
Jim Terrell from Jacksonville, FL
For some strange reason, I like this movie. I's partly a spoof of _Bloodsport_ and partly your typical Hong Kong movie. The martial arts tournament is named the "Free Fighting Tournament," and Bolo Yeung plays basically the same character that he did in _Bloodsport_ (the name is spelled Chang Lee here). The fights are downright weird: a sumo wrestler smothers his opponent by squatting on his face; an Indian fighter who must be seven feet tall and who wears high-top sneakers accidentally breaks a floodlight with a high kick and tells the stage people, "Up, up, up"; a monkey-style kung fu fighter rolls around on the mat without making much attempt at fighting, then rips a tuft of hair off the Indian fighter's chest (as Bruce Lee did to Chuck Norris in _Return of the Dragon_). As if that wasn't bizarre enough, the master wanders around Hong Kong, tangling with some American punks (who have a very familiar obscene phrase spray-painted on their jeep). Even though _Bloodfight_ is really just your typical Hong Kong chopsocky flick, I am fascinated by it, maybe because I have an interest in anything Asian. Fans of Jackie Chan should give it a shot, as well as anyone who likes Simon Yam (who has worked with John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat in other films).
Surprisingly good for such a derivative story, 25 May 2011
Author:
lemon_magic from Wavy Wheat, Nebraska
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
While this movie is obviously an attempt to cash in on "Blood Sport"
(and shamelessly borrows the Stallone vs Lundgren training montage from
"Rocky IV"), it still manages to have some charm on its own merits.
I think what I really like about it is that the limited budget and
unknowns in the cast keep the levels of bombast down to a minimum, and
the director and actors keep sneaking in small touches and quiet
moments that actually inject some human emotion into what could be
nothing but another empty spectacle. Also, having the actors talk in
their heavily accented English dialects (instead of HK style
overdubbing) adds a nice flavor to the movie. They have to work so hard
at expressing themselves in their second language that somehow a lot of
the artifice and "attitude" that clots the typical Golan-Globus sausage
factory gets left out, and the movie is better for it. I would actually
prefer to watch a movie like this to most of the early Canon film/Golan
Globus Chuck Norris stuff. Although FF can't hold a candle to "Code Of
Silence".
It's also sort of funny where it means to be (not "haw haw" funny, but
mildly humorous), and some of the actual fights and most of training
sequences have an authentic flavor; I practiced those footwork patterns
and katas and candle exercises in my early martial arts days, and it
was nice to see them done right. And of course, Bolo Yeung is always
fun to watch - he always plays the same kind of character, but it's a
role he was born to play.
An obscure gem of sorts, worth taking the time to watch if you happen
to come across it in a collection (like I did).
Rip off!, 9 March 2011
Author:
mm-39 from Winnipeg
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
A rip off of Blood Sport and Rocky 4! The makers of Final Fight know this, and I am okay with it to. Part of the movie is Blood Sport with an all out martial arts contest, with the same bad guy (Bolo). The other part of the story is similar to Rocky four which has a trainer's revenge of the death of his student from and in ring incident. The training part of the film is right out of the Rocky movies. The protagonist trains old while the bad guy trains new. The movie has some filler martial arts Hong Kong (Mr B Lee) style in the middle too stretch out the story. Is the movie entertaining yes. Is it a great movie no! The ending has the protagonist walking away dressed and walking similar to Sly's characters. I give Final Fight 6 out of 10.
Bloodfight, 2 November 2009
Author:
Scarecrow-88 from United States
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
At the heels of Bloodsport, director Shuji Goto snagged the formidable
Bolo Yeung, attempting to capitalize on that film's success for his
similarly titled, Bloodfight. The plot echoes Rocky IV as retired world
champion martial artist, Masahiro Kai(Yasuaki Kurata), now the trainer
of a fledgling gym, prepares for his main event fight against Chang
Lee(Bolo Yeung), the one responsible for the murder of a former pupil,
Ryu Tenmei(..a really young Simon Yam). Kai watched as Ryu battled
against a group of bullying punks, led by Stuart Smith, seeing a
possible champion-in-the-making, hoping to take him under his wing. At
first Ryu resists, instead concerned with a career in basketball..that
is until he has another altercation with the punks, left battered and
bruised. To the dismay of girlfriend Milly, Ryu will abandon his
potential basketball career, working hard with new trainer Kai,
preparing for a tournament, in the hopes of becoming world champion.
Ryu does indeed work his way through opponents, squaring off with Lee,
but it doesn't fair well, and one snapped neck leads Kai into a drunken
state, agonizing over the loss of his student, who was in over his
head. In a publicity event, Kai agrees to enter the world championship
tournament, setting up the main event between himself and Chang Lee.
Undermined perhaps by the middle portion which gets bogged down in
unraveling why Kai is awaiting his battle with Lee, Bloodfight, come
hell or high water, is gonna place special emphasis on the characters
and their story. It opens as if it might be a pure fight film,
sacrificing story for bloody violence, but once the flashback story
begins, the film at times grinds at a slow pace, with an exciting
action sequence popping up here and there. The film follows the same
"training regimen" scene from Rocky IV, as Kai prepares in the most
difficult conditions / ways while Chang Lee works out in the comforts
of a gym, with the finest equipment. While I personally wanted more of
Yeung destroying opposition, Bloodfight is more concerned with the
dynamic of trainer and student, how this relationship dictates the
emotional level of the finale. The film establishes the main aggressors
as the gang of cruel interlopers who attack innocent people and street
vendors in the city just for kicks, with others having to put them in
their place from time to time(..like a young woman defending her mother
and sister, Ryu protecting his girlfriend, or Kai, wallowing in misery,
who annihilates them even though he's drunk out of his gourd).
The fight scenes are quite entertaining with the fighters flying
through the air(..these moments are obviously choreographed fantasy,
but enjoyable just the same, even if they are fictional acts of
agility), swapping blows, with the usual assortment of odd-looking
contestants and interesting finishes. The film allows Yeung, who is
quite a physical specimen, to look really good, his fight against Yam
incredibly hard to watch as his Chung Lee just obliterates the kid,
showing no mercy, actually boozed up before the fight even begins. His
closing fight with Kurata is worth the wait, and, again, Yeung, for a
good while, just bashes and pummels his opponent. The problem is
getting to these scenes, the dearth of story taking precedence over the
fights. The film was shot in English, before the tolerance of
subtitles, hoping to gain interest from Western audiences, I suppose.
The Hong Kong locations are always a plus and I think Kurata does fine
in the lead. Yeung is certainly menacing enough, even though his role
doesn't differ much from others we are accustomed to.
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