Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

loued17 This movie is like a car crash on the side of the highway....You know you shouldn't look, but once you do, you can't pull yourself away.First off, this movie definitely has an "80's" feel to it.The only problem is - it was made in 1993.The movie actually plays well as a "parody" of 80's high school/teenager movies - especially "Karate Kid" (it's a virtual copy).The only problem is - it parodies these movies unintentionally."Showdown" is the perfect example of a movie that is hilarious, without ever once trying to be funny.As others have stated, Billy Blanks really steals the show in this one, and the other main character is played by a former Ninja Turtle.....what great casting! All the high school students appear to be in their late 20's or early thirties - although if you pay close attention, you can probably find a few pushing 40.Here's the deal.....if you watch this movie as it's SUPPOSED to be watched you will hate it (if you don't, check your pulse!).But if you watch it as a parody of movies like the "Karate Kid" than you will find yourself laughing throughout the film.

sveknu For starters: This movie is nothing without Billy Blanks. Although the main character really is OK, it's Blanks who give this movie all the musclepower it needs. Initially, the whole movie seems like the most low-budgeted and poorly acted (and written) high-school movie ever, but all of that changes when Blanks comes into business. I really liked his role in this one, as the calm and lone janitor who long ago retired from the fighting scene (of course). When he decides to help our hero, we get the classic training scenes with great background music. Pretty standard like many other movies of this kind, but it always works. Cool fighting at the end, even though I've seen better. This movie proves that you don't need that much money to make an entertaining movie.

klchu You know a movie sucks when the star is "Raphael" from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.This movie is nothing but a string of clichés and one-dimensional characters. Nothing in this movie is original or well-done. The music is terrible and Billy Blanks is lame. Patrick Kilpatrick is ridiculous and the bad guy. Christine Taylor is the only good thing in this movie, but her character is nothing but a typical 80s movie "girl prize."The fighting isn't even that good. They seem to think that the spin kick is the ultimate cool fighting move. What a bunch of dorks.This movie is so bad that is has, not one, but two training montage sequences. The horror.

Gabriel Dotson Although not one of Billy Blanks most superb martial arts films I put that all aside and say it's a decent tough guy film. Billy Blanks plays a cop turned lonely janitor whom by coincidence runs into a new student who is terrorized by a madman cause, he can't stop talkin' to his girlfriend. Some of the plot made no sense to me because, Blanks literally turned this wimp into a modern Bruce Lee overnight. Everything happens too fast. See it for yourself and you'll see what I mean.