Wordiezett So much average

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

bolloks-1 Like most of the other comments, I came into this movie totally unprepared for what I was about to see. This movie was so bad that I was cringing with every scene, but at the same time I was compelled to see what happened next. I just can't even believe that a movie this bad actually exists. When the movie ended, everyone in the room agreed that it was hands down the worst movie any of us had ever seen. And the fact that it was produced in 1993, but set in 1983 is beyond me. But then again, nothing else in this movie makes sense either, so who knows. This movie should be shown to prison inmates in solitary confinement. They'll never do a

gridoon I watched "High Kicks" as part of the 10-movie DVD set called "Women Who Kick Butt". No doubt if that's the first film of the set you watch you'll be disappointed, but if you watch it (like me) after such atrocities as "Death Run To Istanbul" or "Flight To Danger" it seems comparatively better. The female lead takes her role very seriously and gives a convincing emotional and physical performance (she was stunt-doubled in some scenes by Michelle "Mouse" Krasnoo). The acting of the men sucks, but at least they seem to know what they're doing when it comes to martial arts. And although the film was cheaply shot on video, the camera-work is decent. Of course there are a lot of things that could be improved. The script is short on logic (how do they always manage to find the villains so easily?), the fight choreography is sometimes clumsy, and there should have been more action - the climactic fight, for example, should have been longer than 1 minute! (*1/2)

Space_Mafune After being attacked and raped by a gang of hoodlums, an aerobics instructor named Sandy turns to her new friend Sam, a karate expert, for help. After some martial arts training, she and her newfound karate cohorts decide to bring their own brand of justice to these hoodlums since the police won't do anything about them. It should also be noted with regards to the plot that never ever, not even for one single moment, does it become convincing in its portrayal of events.I swear I could feel my brain cells literally melting away as I watched this cheese fest that is when it wasn't being utterly overwhelmed by the almost vomiting inducing level of political correctness constantly a presence in this film. Indeed, the gang is made up of members from nearly every different race (must not discriminate after all when it comes to male sleaze balls) and all the guys in the film who seem to be actually able to fight seem to also be totally ineffectual as males for the most part, wearing pink t-shirts or sweatshirts, doing aerobics and basically anything our leading lady Sandy asks them to do. It's interesting that only the effeminate men seemed to be portrayed in a positive light. Possibly as a means to appease all those male sleazes watching at home, the camera does seem to continuously leer at women as they work out to the point you honestly expect this to turn into a full blown porno film at any moment (the music even lends itself to this suggestion). However it never does. In fact, it doesn't even have any nudity.

shempzine I have to agree. This certainly has the look of an-early '80's shot-on-video porn film minus the nudity and sex.Not only is this film hideously bad, I've only seen it available in cheap DVD box sets that force you to compare it to better films. The only reason I have it/watched it was that it came in a set titled SAVAGE SISTERS where it is included along with SISTER STREET FIGHTER (the reason I bought the set), TNT JACKSON, and the GET CHRISTIE LOVE! TV pilot. All those films are far better. Given how cheesy and dated they are should give you an indication of how bad HIGH KICKS is.