Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

gorthu I probably went into this movie with my expectations set too high. James Ryan plays the villain and that is why I was so excited to see it. In case people don't know, he was the star of 'Kill or Be Killed' and 'Kill and Kill Again', 2 of the best American martial arts movies ever made. He plays the villain in Kickboxer 5, and does a fine job, but he is not in nearly as good of shape as he was 15 years prior to when this movie was made. He has not aged very well. Marc Dacascos is the star of the movie and he does a good acting job, but my main problem is that the fights are nothing special. Some good kicking, but that is really all that I enjoyed. The story is not even worth going over. It is pointless. Don't waste your time with watching this movie, even if you are a Marc Dacascos fan. He has a few good moments, and that is the only reason the movie is worth watching.

sliat_1981 Fans of Kickboxer 2, don't seem to mind that a character so important to the original (and played by such a presence as Van Damme) was killed off so easily and cheaply. But I see a lot of them raising a stink over David Sloane getting killed off. Basically they told us to "get over" it and "accept" this little wimp as the new kickboxer. David Sloane was a little weakling with no muscle that had no place in these movies. In all the sequels he would becoming back as the lead and people would think him as the "kickboxer". I loathed him and couldn't stand that his character was now the star while Van Damme's character was dead. Now, finally he's killed off and good riddance.They put in Mark Dacascos who really should have been in the sequel. He's a real martial artist with a strong build, unlike Satcha Mitchell who's a skinny B-grade actor, with no physique. I was actually glad to see David Sloane die as I never felt he deserved to live off Kurt's success. Now the David Sloane fans feel like all the other movies were pointless as he was going to die anyway. Well that's how us Van Damme fans felt in the sequel. They felt it was still a good movie despite being without Van Damme, well we fell this is a good one despite no Satcha Mitchell. I hope you feel as angry and annoyed as we were now that David was killed off so easily and cheaply as Van Damme was in the sequel. So enjoy this movie, cause David Sloane is never coming back! Accept it and get used to it!

Rautus I enjoyed Redempition: Kickboxer 5 has much as I enjoyed the previous films, the fighting was good and the main villain Mr. Nagaal was Pretty good and so was the hero Matt Reeves. The film sees a Professional Kickboxing company called the Nagaal Federation wanting to recruit the worlds best Kickboxers to their company but if they refuse they kill them and that's what happens to David Sloan, the start explains that David has declined their offer so Nagaal tells them to kill him and then while the title credits start we see David Sloan battling a few of Nagaal's men but gets overpowered and killed.We then go to retired Kickboxing Champion Matt Reeves (Mark Dacascos) who discovers his friend David was murdered and when his other friend is giving the offer to join the Nagaal Kickboxing Federation but declines they kill so Matt then goes to get revenge on Nagaal (James Ryan) but Nagaal sends Paul Croft (Geoff Meed) to kill Matt but Paul just used Nagaal to get out of prison and now wants to return home.But it's not long before Matt and Paul are being hunted down my Nagaal's men so they try to escape them and when they go to the casino where Nagaal is Matt confronts him at his estate.Redemption: Kickboxer 5 is a good film that doesn't disappoint with the action. Check it out.

kapecki Mark Dacascos delivers the moves and his usual workman-like acting job in this utterly predictable martial arts revenge flick. James Ryan is appropriately evil and vicious--until he just caves before our hero. But little, not even the location filming in South Africa, can save this by-the-numbers film, especially with a climax that is...well, just not climactic.