Catman in Boxer's Blow (1993)

Sam (Catman) and Gus are back to work in this movie. With Cheever dead, his old gang needs a new leader, so by having some random people beat each other up, they discover this big tall guy ... See full summary »

Director:

Godfrey Ho (as Alton Cheung)

Writers:

AAV Creative Unit (based on the story by), Andy Chan (screenplay) (as Andrew Chan)

Stars:

Jonathan Isgar, Glen Anderson, Howard Anderson

Cast

Credited cast:
Jonathan Isgar	...	Catman (as Jonathan James)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Glen Anderson
Howard Anderson
Sorapong Chatree	...	(archive footage) (as Sorapong Chatri)
Bruce Fontaine
Ken Goodman	...	(as Kenneth Goodman)
Bob King	...	(as Robert King)
Mark King
Danny Lau
Tas Lehoczky	...	(as Tas Lehoczhy)
Linda Miller
Elisabeth Saebbo
Sam Senyai
Kenneth Woods

Storyline

Sam (Catman) and Gus are back to work in this movie. With Cheever dead, his old gang needs a new leader, so by having some random people beat each other up, they discover this big tall guy who only wears fatigues and seems to be strong so they make him the leader. Later on, some CIA agent finds out that some woman affiliated with the Cheever gang has a nuclear starter or something and will only give it up for a lot of money. Sam and Gus then go on a mission to get it back and save the world. Like the first in the "Catman" series, this movie also includes various scenes of Asian people beating each other up for no real reason. In this movie, the Asian guys actually speak of Cheever at one point (providing a minor link between the two plots), but that's really about it.

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Plot Keywords:

catman | fight | radioactive | asia | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Action

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Catman in Boxer's Blow

Company Credits

Production Co:

IFD Films and Arts

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows Catman in Lethal Track (1990)

User Reviews

I want 90 minutes of my life back

I saw Catman in Lethal Track, and Catman in Boxer's Blow. After seeing the first one, I was baffled about how a second could be released. Alas, here it is, and what a painful, mind-numbing, and hilarious experience it was.

First off, this movie has nothing to do with Catman whatsoever. Catman is in the movie for less than 15 minutes. My guess is that he's in the movie only to appeal to an American audience. The rest of the movie is the "subplot", a mess of people beating the crap out of each other amidst a plot that I couldn't figure out at all. There's no character development. I had to ask myself how the box could be so misleading. If you get a chance to look at the cover art, you'll notice that the people featured are white. The actual Taiwanese main characters are not featured at all. Pity, really, that they have to cover up this fact.

About ten minutes into the movie, my friend and I had noticed there were quite a few fight scenes, so we started a counter. The total number of fights in the movie came down to 21. That meant that on average, someone was shot, jumped, beaten up, or engaged in some sort of useless brawl every four minutes. Not bad if you want to see action. But each action scene is totally useless. At least in this movie they dug deep into their pockets and managed to give us some explosions in the finale. Sheesh. Oh, and the ending, like the last movie, not only has nothing to do with the rest of the movie, but is the greatest and most hilarious part.

If you get a chance to see Catman, go ahead and see it. But after the first ten minutes, you might as well skip to the end, because there's nothing new at all.