Almost as schlocky as the original, but not nearly as fun, the remake of Kickboxer reimagines the low-budget martial arts cheesefest that cemented Jean-Claude Van Damme as a sort-of-star as a vehicle for Alain Moussi, a high-kicking loaf of white bread with the screen presence one would expect from Jai Courtney’s stunt double. As before, an American kickboxer named Kurt Sloane (Moussi) travels to Thailand to watch his brother fight muay thai champion Tong Po (Dave Bautista, wearing a hairpiece best described as “mop plugs”). In an attempt to simplify the plot of the original, which was already dumber than a bag of rocks, said brother is killed in the ring instead of being paralyzed, leading this police sketch of a hero to seek out Durand (Van Damme, at this point too good of an actor for this material), a fedora-wearing martial arts master who prepares him for the...
- 9/1/2016
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
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