I saw this at my friend's house, he told me it was a great karate/martial-arts movie. On the folder you could read: "Tougher than "Rocky", "Kickboxer" and "Cage"!" or something like that... I gave it a shoot.
The story: CJ Thunderbird (played by George Rivero, huge guy) has arrived in Santiago to find Rhino, (Matthias Huse, an even bigger guy) who killed his brother in an underground fist fighting-match two years ago. Now he wants to fight Rhino and avenge his brother. He meets Punchy, (Edward Albert) who is an ex-boxer. Although he's invalid, he want's to help CJ get in shape for the fight with Rhino. Then things don't work out the way their were supposed to...
My opinion: First of all, this isn't a karate-movie. The story is much like "Kickboxer", especially the training sequences and the "no rules fighting"-formula is similar to many karate/kick boxing movies. This is a boxing-movie so they their isn't any kicks or grabbing-techniques used. I think they didn't use so many boxing-techniques either, they mostly pound each other with left-hooks and right-hooks. Martial-arts fans might be disappointed when they realize their's no kicking.
All in all this was a movie with many fight scenes, but the editing was sometimes terrible and the acting was what you can expect from this kind of production. (Low budget)
The story: CJ Thunderbird (played by George Rivero, huge guy) has arrived in Santiago to find Rhino, (Matthias Huse, an even bigger guy) who killed his brother in an underground fist fighting-match two years ago. Now he wants to fight Rhino and avenge his brother. He meets Punchy, (Edward Albert) who is an ex-boxer. Although he's invalid, he want's to help CJ get in shape for the fight with Rhino. Then things don't work out the way their were supposed to...
My opinion: First of all, this isn't a karate-movie. The story is much like "Kickboxer", especially the training sequences and the "no rules fighting"-formula is similar to many karate/kick boxing movies. This is a boxing-movie so they their isn't any kicks or grabbing-techniques used. I think they didn't use so many boxing-techniques either, they mostly pound each other with left-hooks and right-hooks. Martial-arts fans might be disappointed when they realize their's no kicking.
All in all this was a movie with many fight scenes, but the editing was sometimes terrible and the acting was what you can expect from this kind of production. (Low budget)