KING OF THE KICKBOXERS, THE
Titel DeutschKarate Tiger 5 - König Der Kickboxer
Titel DeutschKarate Tiger V - König Der Kickboxer
Datierung1990
BeschreibungBrutaler Actionfilm üblichen Zuschnitts. Während der Dreharbeiten zu einem Film kämpfen diverse Parteien gegeneinander, wobei sich Film und "Film im Film" zu einem wilden Rache-Kampfgetümmel verbinden. (Videotitel: "Karate Tiger 5 - König der Kickboxer") (fd)
Kahn is a heavy weight kick-box champion, who often kills his opponents in front of the running camera, to sell it on video tape. Jake had to witness once how his brother was killed by him, and now has come for revenge. But first he has to improve his fighting skills; he asks Phang, the only person in the whole world who ever had Khan down on his back, to train him until he is a match for him.
The makers of this film are certainly no strangers to films that are "Inspired" by mainstream others. The company's earlier effort "No retreat No Surrender" was meant to be a take on the Karate Kid and this film is no different. Let's just get this out of the way now.......it's a Kickboxer rip off! In fact it goes beyond rip off in places with some parts and locations being nearly identical to the Van Damme film, it really is shameless!
Fortunately, Seasonal films are no slouches when it comes to fight scenes and here's where you start to forgive them for being such blatant pilferers. The Fights are truly spectacular, choreographed with such precise flow, speed and with such immense power. This film is a direct descendant of No Retreat No Surrender which was the first film to use western actors set in America with an Oriental production team and like it's ancestor it really is quite something. Gone are the traditional, slow movements of the 70's Kung-Fu films which were so akin to Shaw Brothers films at the time and in their place there is rip roaring torrents of brutal martial arts action.
Billy Blanks as Khan is a great, nay tremendous and utterly terrifying bad guy and it's always great to see the amazingly talented Keith Cooke (who almost steals the show here) but Loren Avedon is as hammy as ever despite his great fighting skill. Of course that's half the charm of these films and that statement is meant fully as a compliment. It certainly has captured the feel of Van Damme's Kickboxer although it doesn't match up to it in terms of polish or drama, but the fights more than make up for it!
(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102217)
KlassifikationTon/bewegtes Bild - Werk
Produktionsland
- Xianggang
- Zhonghua
Produktionsland
- United States
FilmgenreActionfilm
ObjektnummerFM.Film.57676
Institution
Filmmuseum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
Abteilung
FM Filme
