Bloodmatch (1991)

Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in ... See full summary »

Director:

Albert Pyun

Writer:

K. Hannah

Stars:

Thom Mathews, Hope Marie Carlton, Marianne Taylor

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Thom Mathews	...	Brick Bardo
Hope Marie Carlton	...	Connie Angel
Marianne Taylor	...	Max Manduke
Benny Urquidez	...	Billy Munoz
Dale Jacoby	...	Brent Caldwell
Thunderwolf	...	Mike Johnson (as Thunder Wolf)
Jason Brooks	...	Steve Buscomo
Hector Pena	...	Sam Gitty (as Hector Peña)
Peter Cunningham	...	Dwayne Ryan
Patrick Outlaw	...	Walker Stevens (as Patrick Outlaw Buckley)
Vincent Klyn	...	Carl Cuba
Michel Qissi	...	Davey O'Brien
Christian Andrews	...	Jack Kelly

Storyline

Brick Bardo is on a mission to find out which one of the world's greatest kickboxers killed his brother. Five years ago, one of the four champs was fixing fights and set up his brother in the fight that took his life. Now Bardo must take on the gang in the ring for an all-out kickboxing fight to the finish.

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Plot Keywords:

martial arts | fighting | kickboxing | kung fu | hand to hand combat | 

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Taglines:

With fist, with foot, with vengeance in his heart, one man takes on the best in a fight to the finish.

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Genres:

Action

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for continuous violence, a strong sex scene and for language.

Did You Know?

Trivia

Released theatrically in Turkey.

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Quotes

Davey O'Brien: I have done nothing to you.
Brick Bardo: Not me. My brother.

User Reviews

it was great!......maybe..........

well well well.....

How could this movie fail?

with benny the jet, and a host of other talented kickboxers, this film was sure to be great......right...

(Sarcasm kicks in here)

It was

It was truly excellent

The best part was the story, with characters who did nothing for the whole movie except kick each other. And the kicking was great too, simply because of the fight editing. An experienced editor would show one kick when the actor did one kick but this editor made the fighting 5 times better by replaying all the punches and kicks 5 times. Pure genius. This way, he has achieved his goal of completely confusing the viewer (how is that possible in a fight scene), because you dont know whether or not the punches are replayed or the real thing. So, you might as well fast forward throught the fight scenes because they are too mentally taxing (trying to figure out who hits each other). Then you can watch the story in all its glory.

In my ignorance, i couldn't really follow the twisted plot, but it seems that billy's dad was killed in the desert, so now he can gather together all these kickboxers at random and get them into a ring, where he can proceed to kill all of them, even thought he knows they were innocent. This way, there is a lot of killing which makes no sense at all. This also gives the director an opportunity to throw in a sex scene. Great movie.

(Sarcasm stops here)

Crap movie. Why the hell did he kill all the people when he knew they were innocent? I thought he was the good guy!

3rd worst movie ever

After bloodsucking freaks and bloodfight (Notice how all the crap movies start with blood)

1/10

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 December 1991 (Turkey)

Also Known As:

Bloodchamp

Company Credits

Production Co:

21st Century Film Corporation, Power Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Color:

Color