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Bloodsport
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790765402
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790765403
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 085393774424
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 01, 2004
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 26, 1988
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Editorial Review:
A well-oiled Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in what may be one of the few kickboxing films to be based on a true story. The Muscles from Brussels plays Frank Dux, the first Westerner ever to win the extreme "whupfest" known as the Kumatai (a long-running, no-holds-barred fighting tournament in Hong Kong). While a bit deficient in the script department (to say the least), this undeniably exciting flick succeeds by letting Van Damme play to his strengths: namely, minimal acting and a lot of impossibly acrobatic splits while kicking people in the head. A guilty-pleasure testosterone blast of the highest order, with a memorable villain (the massive Bolo Yeung from Enter the Dragon), and a multitude of well-choreographed fight scenes. An embarrassed-looking Forest Whitaker cameos as a hapless (and non-kickboxing) cop. --Andrew Wright
Frank dux has entered the kumite an illegal underground martial-arts competition where serious injury and even death are not unknown Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/14/2004 Starring: Jean Claude Van Damme Forest Whitaker Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R Director: Newt Arnold
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Masterpiece
This is the finest film ever made. You will sing. You will cry. You will not laugh. You will be destroyed.
I eagerly await the prequel, Bloodbirth, currently in production telling the story of a young Frank Dux born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his throat. Stan Dux, Frank's once kindhearted kindergarten teaching father, battles a deep depressing alcoholism after the birth. His marriage is on the rocks and in his drinking begins to beat his wife Mary blaming her for the ... Read More
Rating: - One of the best
This is one of my favourite martial arts movies.
In my opinion, Van Damme's first three or four movies are his best.
Bloodsport has well choreographed fighting, and is actually based on a true story.
Rating: - The one that put JCVD on the map!
The Jean Claude Van Damme Review Matrix (JCVD-RM)
1.Who is he? Frank Dux, American martial arts expert
2.Which family member/friend must be avenged? His friend Ray gets beatdown and ends up in the hospital
3.Does he take his shirt off? He has his shirt off nearly the entire movie
4.Does he have sex with a C-List actress? Yes. Some cute, but anonymous blond.
5.Is there a tournament? Only the baddest tournament in the world: The Kumite
6.Is training needed ... Read More
Rating:  - A Sport Not For Everyone
"Bloodsport" is a milestone for Jean-Claude Van Damme: much like "Conan the Barbarian" for Arnold Schwarzenegger and "Rocky" for Sly Stallone, the dramatized kinda-maybe-true tale of Frank Dux's winning of the enigmatic Kumite tournament proved to be his stepping stone into mainstream cinema, and would help secure him as one of the biggest action heroes of the late-80s/early-90s period.
Like most action films of its time, "Bloodsport" is technically and theatrically flawed, but unlike most other ... Read More
Rating: - Classic
This is one cheesy movie that anyone can enjoy and wont ever forget.
It is so stupid, yet it comes off fun and hilarious to the point where if you even watch 10 mins of this movie you will see it to the end everytime. Even people who take movies seriously will enjoy this.
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