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To me, this movie is perfection.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Good movie but grossly overrated

A different way of telling a story

Ace kickboxer David Sloan (Mitchell) travels to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, along with his trainer/mentor Xian (Chan) for an exhibition bout. When destitute street scamp Marcos (Verduzco) tries to steal his camera, Sloan realizes Marcos and his sister Isabella (Miranda) have a hard life and need some guidance and understanding. So he takes a liking to the two urchins. Meanwhile, Sloan prepares to face off against an evil, ruthless kickboxer named Martine (Jacklin). His manager is Lane (Comar), a criminal who also has his hands in white slavery and prostitution. When Lane and his goons kidnap Isabella, it becomes personal for Sloan, and he, along with Xian and Marcos ("The gringo, the philosopher, and the boy", as their "Machine Gun Joe" character notes) go on a revenge mission to save Isabella and get justice. Will they succeed? We really enjoyed Kickboxer 3. It's a lot more entertaining and fun than you might think. The whole concept of a guy, who, as far as we know, is just a simple kickboxer, going on a dangerous mission and shooting people to save a girl he really just met is just so great. More plots should be like this. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is, but something about Sasha Mitchell is also very appealing. He makes a good lead man. A total change of pace from Van Damme, Mitchell appears to be the ultimate California dude. A cross between Freddie Prinze Jr. and Keanu Reeves, when we first see him in the movie he's wearing red overalls with no shirt. And his outfits just get better from there on in. Plus he has a winning chuckle that really brings you over to his side. And when Lane hatches his nefarious plan to "tire him out" before the big fight, his assistant says, "he's like a machine!" - the fact that he's an indefatigable warrior who is proficient in guns as well as fists, but that he also cares about children, makes you really root for him.Mitchell has some amazing line readings as well...but his wardrobe is quite impressive: he has not just one, but two Benny The Jet shirts. Giving him a counterpart in the clothing department is his wise sensei Xian. Xian is always ready with a learned maxim, such as "clothes don't make a woman beautiful...but it helps!" A movie highlight comes when, in their travels around Rio to get answers, they run into a gay Samba choreographer. For some unknown reason, this guy has goons! In the midst of some sort of Carnival rehearsals, he sics his goons on Sloan, Xian and Marcos! It's nutty ideas like this that move Kickboxer 3 above its seemingly lowly status as a third entry in a series. But let's also remember director Rick King's previous movie before this was Prayer of The Rollerboys (1990). So, there you go.But back to Sloan's true nemesis, Martine, Ian Jacklin doesn't say too many actual lines of dialogue (It's mainly just your classic yells of "RAAAAHHHH!!!), but he's still sufficiently evil. He even taunts his opponents by spontaneously breaking into a dance of "The Running Man". Weirdly, Ian Jacklin, here more than ever, resembles another Ian, Brown. Both the actor/fighter and the singer for The Stone Roses have a distinctly monkey-like face and could be brothers. No insult is intended, it's simply a description. Ian Brown should have gone into acting instead of pursuing a solo career. Then a movie could be made where Keanu Reeves and Sasha Mitchell are brothers, and Ian Jacklin and Ian Brown are brothers. Sadly, it looks like we won't see that imaginary film any time soon.While there is a bit of filler during the "evil training" sequence, Kickboxer 3 provides solid entertainment and is pretty crowd-pleasing. Some of its more absurd moments and ideas help a lot, as does its winning cast, so we can certainly recommend it.

This series has reached desperation stakes. We have an average lead, and his again mentor, in a much better performance, he deserves better movie vehicles, than offered in this. Set in one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in the world, Rio (this crap has at least has something going for it) Mitchell and Chan, continuing their partnership are robbed by two Brazilian kids, one a beautiful Brazilian teen girl, who doesn't know the nightmare her future holds, the price of her beauty. Thrown an offer and a lot of money by a sleazy older manager, who favors the fighting skills of our David Sloane (Sasha Mitchell), he declines. But Mitchell and co aren't aware, he also runs a underground white slavery ring of 13-16 year old teen girls, one who escapes at it's start, meeting a horrible if briefly shocking (latter word-viewer wise) fate. Our hottie, Isabella, and she does melt the senses, is kidnapped of course after being eaten up by this dirty manager's eyes. She's such valuable commodity. And here's the rub, Mitchell is drawn back into the ring to fight this guy, where if accepted, he'll return the girl. Yeah right, and you should see what Mitchell has to endure. This elongated swim across the Rio seas, drained me visually. The end fight in the ring is almost replica to the end fight in No 2, a very familiar scene, yet this is less violent, but does have a happy outcome as far as all those kidnapped girls as concerned. Your patience may wear with this mostly flat third Kickboxer outing This 92 minutes of mostly wasted time seems to drone on, for almost ever. Instead of Kickboxer 3: The Art Of War, this should be called: Kickboxer 3: Haven't We Suffered Enough. The easy answer to that: Yes. Weird moment: When Isabella, in a blue flowery dress, is being auctioned in front of two middle aged slavers, she appears in much other scenes. Trick of the camera,or an unintentional slight.

I'm taking it from viewing Kickboxer 3 that the filmmakers are running out of ideas. Sasha Mitchell returns as kickboxer David Sloan, who goes to Rio with mentor and gym partner Xian Chow (played again by the wonderfully talented Dennis Chan in sadly his last American film) to compete in a match versus the deadly Eric Martine, played with some mancing velocity by kickboxer Ian Jacklin. Martine's manager Frank (Rich Comar) also runs a teen prostitution ring. Yeah, definitely diminishing. This film is a decent entry in the series and Sasha gets to do his kickboxing here, but the plot of the crime ring...yeah, too much.

Kickboxer 3 isn't worth the money, or the rental. Dennis Chan is a comic sidekick and teacher to David Slone who plays a chilsed jawed kickboxer who seems to resemble that bad karate kid from Karate Kid III.Anyway, the film has David going to Brazil for a kickboxing fight but gets drawn into the seedy world of underage prositutes or something and gets drawn into the local riff-raff.Even though he's only a kickboxer and only there to kick the ass of the Ivan Drago type kickboxer he goes out on a mission to take out the local bad guy, who isn't even Portuegese or Brazilian, but American.The fight sequences are okay - but that is it, nothing compared to other martial art movies you can get for the same price.Avoid it. 1/10