Alicia
I love this movie so much
Scanialara
You won't be disappointed!
VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Aneesa Wardle
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Leofwine_draca
BADASS SHOWDOWN sounds like a kick-ass movie for martial arts legend Cynthia Rothrock but in actuality it turns out to be another of those interminable '1313' straight to video productions from schlock director David DeCoteau. The setting is one more that mansion in the hills, where a bunch of buff young guys strip off and spend their time endlessly showering and doing plenty of exercise. The "plot" involves Rothrock hanging around in an extended cameo and writing notes on a clipboard as she appraises their talents. The worst thing about this is the incompetent staging of the fight scenes with the ridiculous dubbed-in sound effects.
UglytheClown
This is NOT a film. It's just 55 minutes of guys showering and working out with 15-minutes of talking to pass off an excuse for a story.I'm not even joking. This isn't a troll review, it's serious.I've posted a breakdown of the film on the 'film's discussion boards entitled "No Badasses, NO Showdown" The DVD cover is to sucker MMA fans into buying it.Thank God for DVD rip-s and sites like put-locker.How this guy continues to produce these things is beyond me.He used to make decent films. Now he just does soft-core gay-porn and puts a 'mainstream feature film' cover on the DVD too sell more copies.
m_roberts_07
Oh my god! Cynthia Rothrock is finally back in the movies again. Yay!!! Hang on, the movie is so shocking she ought to stay away from being in future movies if they will continue to be as bad as this one.Like other previous reviewers stated...Badass Showdown has gay boys pretending to be martial artists and you can tell that they don't know martial arts. Badass Showdown is choreographed/directed and produced by people who don't know martial arts at all.I just don't understand how someone can show such bad acting or why Cynthia would return to movies and appear in a total flop of a film. I am very disappointed. The only time I will write a review is when the movie is extremely good or extremely poor. I would rarely say how bad a movie is. I just want everyone to know that I am telling the truth to save others money or time. I am a major movie buff and can watch almost any movie from beginning to end. I didn't even finish watching Badass Showdown although I consider myself a loyal Cynthia Rothrock fan. Watching the gay boys pose in shower and in bedroom made me expect some soft gay porn to begin but it never did...thank god. My wife after ten minutes of the movie was telling me to change to another. If you are gay, then you might like Badass Showdown.
David Kincoe
I will try to write this without trying to insult anyone involved with this movie. Sorry if I do, but I have to say Badass Showdown is an insult to the viewers too.All is filmed mostly in one location, except for the nice beaches we can see sometimes.After watching a while, I just had to find out who the female director was. To my shock it was a man named David DeCoteau. There are a lot of scenes with all the guys showering, often a couple minutes of watching them. And quite a lot of scenes with half-naked boys doing exercise (not even doing it right).The plot is thin, if any at all.The actors are so bad you think they lost a bet and had to be in this movie. Yes, they are that bad.Then there is the music/sounds. What did the sound department think of? Action movies usually have some crappy sounds, but this has a huge amount of it. The music doesn't fit in, it sounds more like from a sci-fi thriller.The hand-held cameras does nothing good if you ask me. It made me dizzy and it looks like its filmed by kids.I could not give 0 out of 10, so I had to give it 1. I'll watch Night of the Lepus 100 times before I watch this again. If they used $1.000.000 on this movie, a better choice would be to give it to charity or homeless people.