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Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Alex Cardo (Bernhardt) is a Punchfighter, but he'd rather be having tender heart-to-heart talks with his classically 90's son Jason (David Schatz). While he trains his tot in the ways of Martial Arts, he regales him with stories of the time he won the Kumite (thus eliminating any sense of suspense or drama and telegraphing a spoiler alert from the get-go). Alex recounts the tale of his time in "the Far East" when he used to frequent casinos while dressed in a white tuxedo. Jason, clearly riveted, continues to listen. Alex tells of the evil fight promoter Duvalier (Rhys-Davies), and how he murdered his mentor Master Sun (Hong). He neglects to mention why Pat Morita is only seen for about 30 seconds and for no apparent reason. To win the tournament, Alex goes to the countryside and begins training extensively, which is a prerequisite if you want to win. Alex soon dons his singlet and enters the ring, and proceeds to work his way through a bunch of fighters with no character development beyond their names, such as Bruce Burly (McElroy) (though why J. J. Perry had to play a guy named J. J. Tucker remains unexplained). Finally he faces off against The Beast (Oleson), an almost comically oversized meathead of the highest order. Will Alex live to tell the tale to his son? Well, yeah, of course he will.Grown men punching and kicking each other. It can take on many wondrous and colorful forms. Apparently there's no real limit on how many of these types of movies can be made. The original Bloodsport and Kickboxer films truly opened the floodgates during the video store era for Punchfighters for decades to come, even up to the present day. But the problem with movies like this is, during the last half-hour at least, it gets very boring and repetitive. But you have to show the Kumite, right? So on and on it goes.Before the internet and even Pay-Per-View, renting movies like this was one of the only ways to see fighting of this kind on film. It's easy to forget that in this day and age. So the movie gets somewhat of a pass, but it really should have bothered to do a bit more character development and maybe concentrated a little less on extended Kumite footage. We realize we're talking about Bloodsport III here, but still, we think that's a fair criticism. The first half of Bloodsport III is actually a lot of fun. It has that silly, funny, absurd vibe we love so dearly. But then it slows down and becomes more standard, unfortunately enough.Daniel Bernhardt must have been an obvious choice to fill the shoes of Van Damme, because, let's face it, he's basically the same person. We've never seen them in the same place at the same time, have we? It must have been tough living in the shadow of JCVD. But somewhere in between Van Damme and Olivier Gruner, the Bernhardt dwells. At many points throughout the film, you could swear that it IS Van Damme. But Bernhardt puts forth his best "suave eyebrow" to woo the ladies, and why wouldn't he go after Crystal Duvalier (Van Lent), with a singing voice like that? In the "white tuxedo" scene, he truly is Daniel BernBond. But the man has his own personal problems and demons as well, as he has nightmares of recycled footage that he has to contend with.Perhaps, in the end, Bloodsport III raises more questions than it answers (what exactly is the timeline of all these Kumite matches as they relate to parts II and III? Why do deathfights to the death have a ref? And so many others...). But it does have a noteworthy end-credits song, "Rhythm of the Kumite" - a techno tune where you think at any moment someone will yell "Mortal Kombat!!!!!" - but they do indeed yell "Bloodsport!!!!!", so, no harm no foul. So basically the first half is entertaining but it devolves into a slog. So watch it on YouTube and save the money on your credit Cardo.

Just finished watching the movie, yesterday I have seen part II. It's not as good as part 2, and well, they shoudn't have named it part III. I mean, the events concerning master Sun, are not possible since Master Sun was telling the students about the last kumite as an old man, so he was still alive. But then again Highlander 2,3 and 5 are also horrible, whilst parts 1 and 4 are very nice, and the increasing number behind American Ninja/kickboxer is also, let's say not an increase of quality.I have the tendency to watch lets say, the lesser pearls of the movie world in the weekend. And if you expect a B film, this is rather OK. It's 90 minutes of not-too-bad acting and nice fighting scenes. Obviously the continuity is very very poor (JJ and the bandage of the long haired fighter) and the biggest mistake??? location... 'several years after winning the kumite, I was living in the far east'....WHY SAY THAT??? the film was shot in Sri Lanka, all the people are 'indian', why say that it's in the far east?... Eventually this film is OK, I enjoyed watching it... If you want to see it, don't expect anything fancy, just real B material, and you can have a nice 1.5 hr.cheers

You should watch Bloodsport III if you have enjoyed the first two, but know that it is inferior to those movies.First of all, the narration style is the same as in the second one(told by flash-backs). This is not bad, but it doesn't bring anything new to the franchise, and the between flash-back scenes in B2 were arguably better. Secondly, the main villain (who somehow looks like Vince Vaughn). His name is "The Beast"...OK, the name of the bad guy in B2 was "Demon", so does every bad guy now have to have a weird name like "Evil Guy" or whatever? Also, and more importantly, he really isn't that impressive, and doesn't look like he poses a threat to the hero. Finally, all the other Kumite fighters sucked. Some of them had funny names (Lima Lama, JJ Tucker), but none of them were sympathetic, rather super annoying (except for Lima Lama).Now for the good. The movie was a shot in Sri Lanka, which makes for an interesting change of locale. A lot of the team behind B2 is back for this one, and it's nice to see actors like Pat Morita and James Hong don't mind coming back for just one scene. It's also nice to see actors like John-Rhys Davies, who played Sallah in Indiana Jones, and Gimli in Lord Of The Rings, will also act in movies like Bloodsport. Also, and importantly, though handled somewhat awkwardly, the underlying storyline in B3 is deeper and has more meaning than all the other Bloodsports.All in all, while inferior to it's predecessors, Bloodsport III is a movie for which one should not have high expectations, and with Daniel Bernhardt in the lead, it delivers it's promise.

Daniel Bernhard returns in this 3rd installment in the series. I suspect that this movie were made in a big rush, since it's worse than "Bloodsport 2" in many ways. First of all, the story is a little bit too standard. But that is of course not the most important. The fighting in this movie isn't that good, and it's just too much of the same styles. The Kumite in this movie has to be the worst Kumite ever arranged. One detail that particularly draw my attention, was one of the fighters sitting on the bench ringside and waiting to fight. On the bench, he didn't have any hair on his chest at all. But when he was fighting, he suddenly had lots of hair. Things like this confirms that this is a C-movie, and probably really low-budget. What where they thinking?