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Kickboxer: Vengeance

2016

John Stockwell

Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dave Bautista, Georges St-Pierre ...

4.0

1,161

Action Eric and Kurt Sloane are the descendants of a well-known Venice, California-based family of martial artists. Kurt has always been in older brother, Eric's shadow, as he lacks the instincts needed to become a champion. Against Kurt's concerns, Eric accepts a paid offer and travels to Thailand to challenge the Muay Thai champion Tong Po and fails with dire consequences. Kurt sets out for revenge. He trains with his brother's mentor, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Improves on the boilerplate original without really changing its essentials (...) [It] is a bit shorter, a tad more stylish, and utilizes the same clichés a little less ponderously"	POS
United Kingdom	Mike McCahill The Guardian	"Unpretentious entertainment delivers everything one might want from a film titled 'Kickboxer: Vengeance', including an homage to the younger Van Damme (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Andy Webster The New York Times	"'Kickboxer: Vengeance' follows a tiresome martial-arts movie formula. But amid the hoary conventions are agreeable inklings of an alternate sensibility."	NEU
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Almost as schlocky as the original, but not nearly as fun"	NEU
United States	Chuck Bowen Slant	"Most of the action scenes are remarkably unexciting, but a few training sequences between Kurt and Durand are mildly amusing (...) So much potential has been squandered (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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