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List Price: $12.97 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 4124
Released: June 1, 2004 |
| Our Price: $5.10 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Kung Fu expert Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a martial arts master who arrives in Hong Kong to compete in the Kumite, a violent championship fighting contest.
Description of Bloodsport:
A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. A guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon), and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright
Bloodsport Reviews:
Best movie of all time 
2009-09-09 - ordered it and got it the day i was supposed to. Very happy with purchase
Van Damme? Ehh, but BOLO!!! 
2009-07-20 - This is Van Damme's first starring role. He looks in his twenties, but I don't know. For some reason, he's fitted with an awful toupee (two actually, one is more tussled than the other, supposedly expressing his youth). Maybe he was prematurely bald but they look bad. (And never get mussed in fight scenes.
He's okay as Mr. Marshal-Arts Goody Two Shoes. His bearded beer drinking dork of an American buddy is better. But what's best is BOLO YEUNG as the villian. He's my new hero. He's jaw droppingly good as the bad guy. I just ordered TIGER CLAW. The best thing I've seen since ODD JOB in Goldfinger... better.
If he's got a fanclub, I'm a member.
BEST MARTIAL ARTS MOVIE
2009-07-09 - VAN DAMME is awesome in this one..really good fight scenes..good story lines with good acting always go together..
So Much Karate. So little time.
2009-05-28 - Silly but so awesome all in one. The slow motion screams are the best. That is next to Paco, he actually is the best. A dirty fighting [...], but damn he is the best. Long live Paco!!!
Van Damme's best
2009-05-09 - Even though it's been almost twenty years since this film came out, it's still a classic right up there with Enter the Dragon. Van Damme plays Frank Dux, an american soldier competing in the Kumite, a little-known but controversial martial arts competition where the best fighters in the world gather to test their skills upon each other. Frank must not only put his skills to test against some of the most fearsome opponents in the world but also against his own personal fears and doubts about why he's there in the first place.
Van Damme is superb and he's never looked better. I know there was criticism about what an exhibitionist he can be, especially with his body, but if you worked for years toning and sculpting it, why not show it off? A true classic.
