FlashCallahan Out to avenge the death of his brother, Brick Bardo decides to kidnap four world-class kickboxers who may have killed his sibling and take them on, one by one, in order to uncover the truth. As Brick goes about his mission, he runs the risk of becoming as ruthless as the bad guys that he is battling.....So this film is nothing more than a bad soap opera mixed with a bloke named Brick fighting people in order to find out who killed his brother.Sounds bad? It should be, but Pyun is one of those go to directors when you just want to watch a bad film. Revel in the lifetime movie cliches, and the bad hair and clothing. Be in awe of the edit that was rife in straight to video martial arts film in the nineties, that one where it looks like one kick is actually six.And then we end up in an abandoned arena, and it's just Brick fighting the kidnapped victims one by one, and it's hilariously bad.But that isn't the best part of the film, it's the final revelation that would make the directors of Dallas blush. It's so stupid and ignorant, you can't help but laugh.It's an awful film for sure, but it's funny just to see it fall apart..

Destroyer Wod Honestly the plot made me hoping for a Lionheart type of movie, but more we get into it, we find the story is not that much present and you kind of don't feel for the characters as you should do...Fights themselves varies between good and boring. The "Brick vs Mike" is boring but Brick vs Billy was definitely nice. Others where so-so...Basically i had to go with buying this on VHS on ebay, in English(french speaker here) and it felt like if i had knew maybe i wouldn't had pay that much for an old VHS. At least i got it for 13$ bucks, which is less than some seller trying to sell this at 25$....Anyway disappointed cause i was expecting better, but its not that bad, there some entertaining fights. Im the kind of guy that try to get all martial arts movie so im a big fan of the style, so well... i loved bloodfist 2050 when it got a 1.9 here, so thecnically if i find this movie so so, its not that good.ps: whats the point of having a playmate as one of the character and not having her naked in it... ahem... thats weird. This could have get this movie a little bit more fun

Comeuppance Reviews Bad bad bad bad bad. "Bloodmatch" is another dud from the Albert Pyun canon. It's poor, even by his standards.Apparently, an unlikable jerk named Brick Bardo (Mathews)(a common name if you watch Pyun movies) is trying to avenge the fact that his brother was caught up in some illegal fighting and got in trouble, even though his brother was innocent. So he and his partner Max (Marianne Taylor), a former nurse whose fight moves make her resemble a female Andy Bauman, go around drugging and kidnapping the people he thinks are responsible. He rents the entire Las Vegas arena for his own personal vendetta and forces Brent (Dale Jacoby), the smug, "Johnny Cage"-style fighter, Billy (Urquidez), a janitor, Mike (Thunderwolf), who is similar to "Street Fighter"'s Dee Jay, and Angel (Carlton), a Linda McMahon-style fight promoter, to fight him in the darkened arena, because for some reason he feels forcing them to fight him in the ring will bring him closer to the truth."Bloodmatch" is dour, dry, dark and overlong at 85 minutes. Bardo, the supposed "hero" is a hateful, spiteful, annoying and unsympathetic lead. The supposed "villains" are much more likable, so you have to question the entire enterprise. For example, Billy is a hard working janitor with a daughter. Bardo is a smug heel, and if he was a good, likable character you could get behind, that would make all the difference. But for no explained reason, he's not. Like Bardo himself and most of the other characters, the movie itself is unlikable. Apparently a hero would be too much to ask here.You get the feeling Pyun doesn't know what he's doing and is not in control of the proceedings. The pacing is atrocious, it is glacial and the whole film feels like a slog. There are pages and pages of pointless, nonsensical exposition that no one cares about. The lighting is way too dark and grubby. There's a song in the movie, "In the Dark". Why rub it in? Be warned: this movie is NOT a punchfighter. It is a fake, a disgrace to the word "punchfighting". Seeing as there is so much needless, brainless and juvenile dialogue, we have, unfortunately, stumbled upon a new breed of awful movie experience: the "talkfighter". When there are fights, the editing is jagged, with obvious frames removed. There are weak moves galore that don't connect. It is never explained why Bardo practically kills everyone with ease. It puts a sleeper hold on the audience.The whole time, the audience is treated like it is stupid. It also feels like Pyun has never even seen a fighting film before and just decided to make one out of the clear blue sky. The result is disastrous.The only positive things you can say about "Bloodmatch" are that Urquidez does an impressive, if funny spin move, and the casting of Carlton, a Playboy girl, was smart as it keeps you from just ejecting the tape and setting it on fire with rage.Your "blood" will boil if you watch this "match" tonight.For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

plantostickthat well well well.....How could this movie fail?with benny the jet, and a host of other talented kickboxers, this film was sure to be great......right...(Sarcasm kicks in here)It wasIt was truly excellentThe best part was the story, with characters who did nothing for the whole movie except kick each other. And the kicking was great too, simply because of the fight editing. An experienced editor would show one kick when the actor did one kick but this editor made the fighting 5 times better by replaying all the punches and kicks 5 times. Pure genius. This way, he has achieved his goal of completely confusing the viewer (how is that possible in a fight scene), because you dont know whether or not the punches are replayed or the real thing. So, you might as well fast forward throught the fight scenes because they are too mentally taxing (trying to figure out who hits each other). Then you can watch the story in all its glory.In my ignorance, i couldn't really follow the twisted plot, but it seems that billy's dad was killed in the desert, so now he can gather together all these kickboxers at random and get them into a ring, where he can proceed to kill all of them, even thought he knows they were innocent. This way, there is a lot of killing which makes no sense at all. This also gives the director an opportunity to throw in a sex scene. Great movie.(Sarcasm stops here)Crap movie. Why the hell did he kill all the people when he knew they were innocent? I thought he was the good guy!3rd worst movie everAfter bloodsucking freaks and bloodfight (Notice how all the crap movies start with blood)1/10