Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

shapethemoviemaker Back in the day i always thought JCVD was the best actor ever and that he was oscar worthy actor untill i grew up and saw that well its not true but that doesnt mean he improved especialy if you watch JCVD.Anyway this movie is such a guilty pleasure everything can be so bad but its suprisingly enjoyable and so bad its good material is all here and this movie along some other martial arts flicks from late 80s were reason i started training a litle martial arts. Fight scenes are dated but still enjoyable Recommended as a guilty pleasure and so bad its good movie.

SnoopyStyle Fighters from around the world are gathering in Hong Kong to compete in the full contact Kumite tournament. U.S. Army Captain Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is going. After Senzo Tanaka's son Shingo's death, Frank was trained to take over the Tanaka legacy. He goes AWOL and the Army sends officers Helmer and Rawlins (Forest Whitaker) to retrieve him. Looming over everyone is the brutal Kumite champion Chong Li.The setup is banal. The acting is mostly poor to utterly embarrassing. None of that matters because the matches are so fun. The UFC would arrive years later. Van Damme's acting is horrible but his kicks are things of beauty. It's my first introduction to his splits and I was amazed. It's a simple movie with simple pleasures for the simple parts of my brain.

jessegehrig F*ck it, Bloodsport, let us review this movie. Sweaty, lots of dudes, in retrospect I wonder, why so many dudes? Like, hey Bloodsort, why so many dudes? Do they not sell shirts in the Philipines ? Does an entire island nation not have access to shirts? Van Damme makes the craziest faces in this movie, there's like at least two truly crazy faces on his part in this movie, like one is when he's angry and one is when he's sad. Spoiler alert you stupid piece of sh*t, Van Damme beats the bad guy and wins, I really hope I spoiled the plot of Bloodspurt for you, because let's be honest, you deserve it. Think about it, are you a fan of Bloodshorts, then you deserve this. You know you do.

ActorAndrewFord First, background on Frank Dux, JCVD, and their Bloodsport relationshipLets clear up facts from ignorant fans since I"m an authority - not merely a fan who researched a tiny bit about Frank Dux who JCVD plays. Dux claimed -and still claims- to have been taught Ninjitsu as a CIA operative during service in a Top-Secret Full-Contact tournament somewhere on a island in Asia; -nobody can confirm because, again it's top secret; case & point- back when Asian fighters only knew straight-path linear fight techniques but were unfamiliar of Western Boxing-circular techniques and especially the "Death Touch" (Dim Mak) as with coveted Japanese Ninjitsu Clan's (Not tribes). -they would fall for those moves. So it's no surprise Dux unexpectedly won the tournament in real life..."you can't get away with that now...everybody has seen those moves since the 80's martial Arts movement" - Frank Dux - Howard Stern Radio InterviewTalking to people who know Frank Dux personally, claim he's not a amazing fighter, and that Dux impossibly, prematurely, and suspiciously had risen through the Black Belt ranking system during "Bloodsport" with bowing devotees -one even living in Frank's house also quickly and suspiciously risen in many ranks; Is it true?.After Bloodsport JCVD and Dux battled in court, and nearly got in a fist fight after Dux shouted "That's a lie!". Dux argues JCVD cheated him based on the oral agreements of money due; Is it true?After Bruce Lee JCVD is the only REAL Martial Arts actor to launch his own career above any other and nobody since. Bolo said in the JCVD Documentary..."After Bruce Lee no one...look around where someone?...no one....why?...think"-(pointing to his head)...meaning JCVD is very clever. Also, JVCD was "Ivan" in "No Retreat, No Surrender" -a Bruce Lee themed impressive film- and that was a Lead role NOT "a small role" as one ignorant commenter mentioned and there was maybe just as much if not more to appreciated in "Karate Tiger"-(International title) than in "Bloodsport" because of the Jeet Kune Do training factor; that's a story line which, is why movies succeed or fail. Hollywoods steals and revamps instead of creating now days as with "Family Guy" non-sense instead of being original like the Simpsons although in the last several years the Simpsons have a family Guy writer infestation so....On to BloodSport itself: ******SPOILER ALERT****** There is no Vengeance for Mr. Tanaka's dead son as others have mistakenly commented . Bloodsport is about honoring Tanaka's son who was supposed to enter the tournament representing the Tanaka Clan (Masters Son -car accident) and your Shidoshi/Teachers family Clan BECAUSE the TANAKA Clan's ART "is past down from father to son...father to...son". "Father to SON" key word here. Although FRANK DUX was NOT Mr. Tanaka's lineage ,merely his son's training partner/"punching bag", as Dux argues "You always taught to always have a opened-mind!" So Mr. Tanaka NOT CONTRADICTING his own teachings- trains Frank for the "Kumite" tournament for the prized sword from the iconic sword makers clan. JCVD is the BEST martial artist to come along in Hollywood -especially in the 80's- after Bruce Lee- with only JCVD's "Lion Heart" coming in 2nd being very similar but having a family story line for general audiences to emotionally appeal to. -That's the thing about JCVD being smart. For all JCVD's quickness in delivering kicks, he moves just slow enough for average peoples minds to grasp, which was probably learned BTS from Bruce Lee's initial film making mistakes. Lastely, if you think BloodSport's SUPERB (Credit to the times) acting and sound track were merely bad or okay, you probably didn't catch that Bruce Lee slowed down his kicks because they were real, and should probably keep watching "Family Guy","Friends",and "BirdMan" and other shows intended for average slow-minded handicapped audiences.