Cobra Kai: Vietnam Vengeance (2020) Poster

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10/10
Fits perfectly within The Karate Kid Part III
Humpzilla13 July 2023
I saw Cobra Kai Vietnam Vengeance screened within the Karate Kid Part III the other night at my local Arizona theater and it was incredible!!! It's really meant to be viewed within that movie. The audience was extactic and ardent fans flipped out in appreciation as the choices connected when seeing it all flow together on the big screen.

It's a purists guerrilla filmmaking throw back and they don't make'em like they used to!

Smart set up for the characters of Kreese and Silver and it echoes throughout Part III in really cool ways. It's awesome fun and the people in the theater loved it!

When you see it within Part III you really recognize the true grit and merit of this movie within a movie.

The end credits were omitted and when Kreese rings Terry's doorbell, The Karate Kid III changes over seamlessly. It's definitely the way it was meant to be seen.
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A powerful tongue-in-cheek performance from actor Keith Stahle
jeanpaulhansford18 May 2023
Certainly no 'Apocalypse Now' but perhaps a little better character than the series canon effort.

I am a great admirer of the acclaimed 2017 documentary 'The Vietnam War' the most comprehensive analysis of this sometimes shameful and always troubling time in American history.

Both the hugely successful, martial-arts comedy drama 'Cobra Kai' series, and this low-budget tribute fail to impress me of the reality as the documentary did.

Still, Keith Stahle's 'John Kreese' and Anotolli Reeves' 'Terry Silver' look and sound more like the original Karate Kid actors than the unknowns in the official series.

Stahle's performance in Vietnam Vengeance is typically powerful, but I just felt uncomfortable watching something using humour at such a sensitive subject matter.
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9/10
Big fan of Cobra Kai!
d-ramseeey20 April 2020
If your sick of waiting for season 3 of Cobra Kai this then is what you need right now. An interesting story that explains where Kreese came from. Hoping for more of these!
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3/10
Cobra Kai fan fiction fun - silly but some may like that!
joebloggscity21 February 2021
Some fan fiction loosely based around big shot villain John Kreese, which is more just B-movie level action and camp fun. A short free ten minute vid on YouTube, and you've got to learn your trade somehow.

Low budget and little dialogue, it's just big boys fooling around like as if they were kids copying the Rambo movies back in the day.

Problem is that Cobra Kai has usurped this with the Kreese backstory in Cobra Kai season 3, which unsurprisingly was far superior not that I'm wholly knocking this effort.

This is silly cheap fun, and not to be taken seriously. I never expected a fan fiction spin off like this on Kreese but then again I never expected Cobra Kai!

Good luck to the creators in their next efforts.
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