Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

RandomFlux If it hadn't been for Rifftrax, I would never have seen this steaming pile.Sexist, racist, obnoxious in it's portrayal of humans as walking stereotypes, and a story a five year old might have put together with about as much continuity and depth.It's sad to think people saw this mess as anything but a bad parody.I realize 80's tech doesn't compare to what we have now but it still looks and sounds like it was filmed and recorded using a potato.What 'story' there is, consists of the plot from any generic, low-budget, Kung-fu movie.The 'filler' between the laughably choreographed fights consists of training montages, an attempt at a music video, some terrible characters being terrible, and lots of pointless, awful dialogue.If you watch this movie without Rifftrax, you are wasting time that you will never get back. Don't do it. It's not worth it.

sven-vanrompaey A lot is wrong with this movie. From the bad acting to the visible microphones and matte boxes to the failed sound editing. But still....this is one of the greatest fighting movies out there! Everything that went wrong producing this movie, the fight choreography made up for! Movie makers today can still learn from this! And not to forget, a magnificent, yet underrated soundtrack, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, the big action hero we know and love today, get's his first real screen time as "bad guy" Ivan! I have no idea why Kurt McKinney never had any major roles after this movie. A shame, would've loved to see him in action some more!A must see for fight-movie fans and of course for the 80s nostalgia!

scott_dunning This is more of a comment on the reviews rather than a review of the movie. This is one of my favourite movies of all time and like so many other people have said it helped me through my childhood. Everyday after school i would come home and watch No Retreat, No Surrender on our VHS machine. I just wanted to say how happy i was to read so many reviews saying exactly how i felt about this movie. Sure it has some of the worst acting for it's time but that just added to it's charm. Movies like No Retreat, No Surrender, Iron Eagle, Just One of the Guys, Lost Boys and the Wraith and music by Roxette, West End Girls (English Girl Band) & Michael Jackson, this was my 80's and i miss it terribly.Cheers :-)

John Reid This isn't all that bad as far as really corny b grade 80's martial arts flicks go, tho yes, admittedly if not for the presence of van damme the whole thing would have no doubt got lost in the archivesThe acting was not great, cringe worthy was 'deans' performance, kelly was awful, heh the fat guy and the lead seemed to be the best actors there! van damme hardly spoke English then so that forgiven, hell he sure makes up for it tho in fight scenesI liked this (mostly for van damme) it takes me back to my childhood and it tries to be fun fun and engaging, the fight scenes are quite good, production values aside, it could have been better but they did what they could with what modest budget they obviously had and came out with a winnersolid 7/10