Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

gwnightscream Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, James Earl Jones and Chris Penn star in this 1989 drama. Five U.S. martial artists, Alex (Roberts), Tommy (Rhee), Travis (Penn), Virgil (John Dye) and Sonny (David Agresta) are chosen to compete in a karate tournament against South Korea. They are coached by Frank (Jones) and begin getting to know each other as well as studying their opponents. Tommy is up against a man who killed his brother in a tournament years before and tries to get past it. Travis and the others are off to a rocky start, but begin caring about each other and they learn that's what a team is all about. I've always liked and recommend this great martial arts drama.

Hypercampe Yes! This film is so cool I don't know where to start! Story: Eric Roberts is a martial artist. He joins the American kung fu (or karate or something) team to face Korea. Himself and his teammates have to train hard to overcome their past demons or their pride and become the best of the best. Only regret is that only Philip Rhee (Tommy Lee in the film) on the American team, is the only martial artist. It would have been great if all the actors were real martial artists, but anyway, it's fun to see Chris Penn smashing people's heads in. This film is a typical 80s production: sunsets, simple plot, hair metal, cool violence etc. It also contains a few extraordinary fight sequences, really pure martial arts. Loved it!

Crackhouse2 To be honest, I wasn't expecting much when i started to watch this. Having seen other such films from this era and genre I didn't have high expectations. However, after the first few minutes even, you feel yourself starting to connect with the characters and occasionally throughout you have a strange compulsion to throw your fist into the air. All that aside, just like this era and genre dictate, you've got the ever popular montage training scenes as well as the rudimentary bar fight with disgruntled locals flying throughout. Going back to fists being thrown into the air, by the end of the film you almost feel like your fighting and training with the team and you want nothing more than to see them win. All in all, i thoroughly enjoyed this film and would recommend it to anyone. Top notch.

tiger86-2 I don't know about USA but here in Bulgaria this movie was a cult 15 years ago. I mean it. It was not released legally here so we had to watch this and many other martial arts movies illegal on a VHS tape with a terrible video quality and many times dubbed in six or seven languages. It was pretty terrible but we saw many movies that way.But I did not see this movie on a VHS tape. I saw it on the TV about ten years ago. It was really terribly dubbed but I thought it was great. The fights were very good and the story was good enough to make an 11 years old boy happy.I saw it again a few weeks ago. I really enjoyed it but this time I didn't think it was that great. The fights were really good but the story was not that good. The acting was not good. Some people here say that it was good to hire actors instead of martial artists to play the roles but they are pretty wrong. Eric Roberts is an actor. But he has black belt in karate and that is why they hired him. Chris Penn had a black belt too. Not to mention Philip Rhee. But the characters were one-dimensional and not as developed as they had to be. The only really good actor here was James Earl Jones but his character was wrong somehow. I mean wrong. He was the trainer of the US karate team but he was FAT and completely out of shape. And he was not a martial artist. How could he train martial arts masters? He didn't show any martial arts experience or knowledge in the entire movie. Also the movie didn't need the character of Sally Kirkland. Really. May be she was supposed to represent the spirit of the martial arts or something like that but I think they put her in the movie just because there has to be a female character. But the big problem of the movie was... I don't know. I will call it americanism. It is obvious that the movie was made to make the Americans feel they are the greatest nation of the world. When you see a Korean guy yelling "USA! USA!" you will get what I mean. We could even see the Americans in the bar watching a martial arts tournament. That is not normal and you know it. They watch football or basketball or even boxing. But not karate. And what we saw was not a world karate championship. The only competition that actually happened was between the American and the Korean team. Why was this called "world championship"? But despite all I said this is a very good martial arts movie. It was much better than "Bloodsport" or "Karate Kid". At least it looks much more real.