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Kickboxer 3: The Art of War

Kickboxer 3: The Art of War i think wasn't a bad movie. I did like Van Damme's movie better as i think he is the best in the Kickboxer movie because he was the first that started off the Kickboxer movies. He wasn't in any other movies, only the 1st Kickboxer movie. I give this movie 6 out of 10.

Being a BIG fan of Kickboxer and also, a Thaiboxing and Kickboxing practitioner, I decided to rent Kickboxer 3 last week and I must say that it isn't as good as Kickboxer but it's much better than Kickboxer 2. Therefore, I give it an overall 7 out of 10 rating. To conclude, if you like low budget martial arts flicks then this is the one for you.

The Kickboxer franchise spanned 5 films. The 1st film was in theaters, all films after that were direct to video. I loved the 2nd film as it's my overall favorite film of the whole series. The 3rd film however leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This film takes place some time after the events of the 2nd film. David now has a fight in Brazil and helps a homeless brother and sister fight out of a ruthless pimp. The fight scenes are actually not that bad at all, which were some of my favorite parts of the film. There were some things that I had some problems with. Mainly the story is my biggest gripe. If Tong Po is such enemy in the series, where the hell is he? He is not mentioned at all during the film, which really messes up the film franchise as a whole. This is easily the weakest film in the whole series, and unless you are crazy or want to see it, then avoid it.

Sasha Mitchell returns as David Sloan, this time he's in Rio fighting a bunch of thugs who run a white slavery ring, when Mitchell's friend is kidnapped he's forced to fight. Somehow Rick King has managed to make a even worse sequel, things go from stupid to completely ridiculous when main bad guy Richard Comar forces Sasha Mitchell to train. While the action scenes themselves are lame, As a whole K3 serves as a prime example of what killed Mitchell's promising career. Plus what does the subtitle Art Of War have to do with the movie anyway? 1/5 Matt Bronson

Kickboxer 3 takes David and Xian on a trip to Brazil for a tournament. The pair befriends a local boy and his sister who try and steal their camera. They team up and the boy show the pair Rio. While on there, they meet a ruthless player (Lane) who steals women and sell them to buyers, who has his eyes on the boy's sister and takes her. The 3 of them are on a quest to save the girl. But got caught, forcing the player (Lane) to put David Sloan on an extensive training to wear him down to gain inside info to bet his life work against Sloan for the Tournament. This movie is probably my favourite of the series. Everyone expect Kickboxer to be a fighting action film, but I think it leans more of an adventure film, it works really well. The Brazilian backdrop gives it some character. I would recommend for a family to see.

Because every character that was ever in this franchise is apparently dead (and they say squash is dangerous), we get this new bad guy named, of all things, Martine. Will he be able to stop the fury of cousin Cody and some random kid? Will the subplot ever provide any thrills? Well, no on both matters. You know you're not entertained when you wonder where Tong Po went. He wasn't that cool either but the new villains look like they were recruted at a local 7-11. The action scenes in this movie are really boring, especially the actual kick-boxing the title promises is really poorly executed. It's just so obvious the actors aren't touching each other. The writing is as lazy as it can get, our kickboxer even gets to give a moral lesson near the end. Even more sequels follow, I don't think I'll watch them.

Sasha Mitchell reprises his role as David Sloan who has since # 2 become a bona-fide kickboxing champion who flies to Rio to compete to defend his championship however along the way he decides to take down a prostitution racket and does so without hardly breaking a sweat. Did I give away too much by the last sentence? Well let's just say that this predictable sequel is a marginal improvement over # 2. This time there is more attractive scenery, more action and more plot than # 2, which was irritatingly straight forward.) That being said the movie is still hugely flawed. The main problem dealing with the fact that K3 has little kickboxing. Indeed the fight sequence at the end as well as the opponent could've easily been written out and it wouldn't have changed a thing. Mitchell and Chan rely on more guns and while this element works for action fans, the lack of training montage and fights make this a tepid effort. * * out of 4-(Fair)