Awful, awful film

Kickboxer 4 review

Rated - 1.0 star

By John Firth from Newcastle upon Tyne, England Avatar image

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2nd April 2006

This was terrible. Aside from a couple of pretty smooth transitions, the fights were horrific. Shows that top-class martial-artists don't always make good screen fighters.

The script and performances were awful. Sasha Mitchell doesn't seem to have the ability to portray a cold, seriously-pissed, man-on-a-mission.

And what the hell happened to Tong Po? Michael Qissi played him in the first two, but in this it's someone in a bald-cap and nasty prosthetics to cover his eyes.

Mouse sadly can't act, and her fights (along with most of the others) are kick-cut-kick-cut, which doesn't show much talent on the part of the choreographer.

The girls were hot (both Mouse and Jill Pierce are gorgeous), but that's not really much of a recommendation. You can rent Playboy DVDs or Shannon Whirry films for hot girls and bad movie making.

Basically, yet another stinker from Albert Pyun. Best known for one of Van Damme's early breakthroughs, Cyborg, and The Sword and the Sorceror, his resume's full of awful films with decent name actors in them. All at low points in their careers, natch - Charlie Sheen, Robert Patrick, Rob Lowe, Ice T, etc. See the Urban Menace/Corrupt/The Wrecking Crew trilogy for an example of his truly awful film-making skills. Or don't. They're terrible.