Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

bkoganbing The acting levels are not high and the film looks like it was shot on a hamstring in Miami locations. Still Only The Strong has a good bit of entertainment going with it. Martial Arts film fans should be happy with it.Geoffrey Lewis quite unofficially brings in former Special Forces captain Mark Dascascos for a karate program for some of his biggest challenges at an urban Miami high school he teaches at. Among those kids is Richard Coca, cousin of the neighborhood gang leader Paco Christian Prieto.Though film isn't exactly Citizen Kane, Prieto is such a menacing presence you will remember him long after the rest of the film. Especially next to white bread hero Mark Dascascos. Prieto doesn't like anyone telling the kids there's an alternative other than gang war for them. Especially when it involves Coca. Then it becomes downright personal.Martial Arts film fans will love Only The Strong and others will be entertained.

Roth van Turnhout Louis Stevens (Ex-Special Forces) returns to Miami to find his former high school overrun by drugs and violence. He pledges to straighten out a dozen of the school's worst students by teaching them Capoeira . The local drug lord vows to stop. Now Stevens must fight….The film was shot on a zero budget. The story and plot are weak and predictable. The fighting scenes from Dacascos are great and the only decent acting comes from him. The story is a bit too sentimental at times and the whole thing of Capoeira changing the lives of these street kids doesn't bode much credibility,however the fight sequences are great.

callanvass This is an awesome Martial Arts film, that really is quite the underrated gem, with excellent fight scenes and very good performances!. All the characters are awesome, and the story is really good as well, plus Mark Dacascos and Paco Christian Prieto are simply amazing in this. It's really emotional at times and the final fight between Dacascos and Paco Christian Prieto is intense and really exciting, plus the training scenes that he was teaching the students were really cool. It's very well made and written for this type of flick, and I'm still surprised that Dacascos hasn't gone onto stardom and become a top action star, because he should have, plus you are able to care and root for all the kids, and feel what there going through, and why there like that. Paco Prieto is so intense and frightening as the main villain/drug dealer, and the scene where the drug dealer gang set the school on fire is really intense and emotional, plus I loved the ending as it put a smile on my face. This is an awesome Martial Arts film, that really is quite the underrated gem, with excellent fight scenes and very good performances, and I say it's a must see!. The Direction is awesome!. Sheldon Lettich does an awesome! job here with great camera work, solid angles and keeping the film at a very fast pace. The Acting is very good!. Mark Dacascos is amazing here, he is extremely likable, very charismatic, surprisingly an excellent actor, one of the best martial artist's I have ever seen, kicked that ass, and had great chemistry with all of the kid's! (Dacascos Rules!!!!!!!). Stacey Travis is decent as the love interest and did what she had to do adequately. Geoffrey Lewis is very good as the the teacher Kerrigan I really liked him, he is an underrated actor. Paco Christian Prieto is frightening as the drug dealer/villain, he looked scary, talked scary and is one hell of a martial artists, he was perfect for this part. Richard Coca is great as Orlando, I felt sorry for him as he was always doing his cousin's dirty deeds, he did great. Roman Cardwell is very good as Shay I liked him. Ryan Bollman is good as Donovan as it was sad with what happened to him. Rest of the cast are fine. Overall a must see!. **** out of 5

Nate (Cavedog_pdx) First off, the capoiera scenes in the movie are amazing! Capoiera is the Brazilian martial art designed to allow one to fight while in chains ergo the cartwheels and acrobatics. The music is a lot of fun too and the soundtrack is a lot of fun!However, this is one of the worst offenders of movies that have thirty year old high school students - er - actors in their late 20s playing 16 year olds. The main character does a Michelle Pfeiffer-esque dangerous minds revolution in what is supposed to be the worst high school in LA by taking a group of the "worst" students and teaching them martial arts. Well these "worst" students actually just seem like wise cracking slackers and not all that bad. Many are just quiet and look bored. The bad guys in the movie are also capoiera experts. Who'd have thought there'd be a Brazilian capoiera gang right there in Los Angeles? Okay the movie is utterly unbelievable but the funnest thing about this movie is the blatantly thick overtones of homo-eroticism. Seriously it's just a crack up seeing these guys trying to act all macho while doing these martial arts. Perhaps it's bad acting combined with excess testosterone but it's a hoot to behold! Very much a party movie for your gay friends!