Product Description

Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 04/13/1999 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48373 in DVD
• Brand: Lions Gate
• Released on: 1999-03-09
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Customer Reviews

Worse than death itself!!!
Wow. This movie sucked the big one. But before we get into the gritty details, a quick plot summary. Daniel Berndhart, a washed out bum of an actor, stars as a mildly retarded former fighting champion scouring the strees of America (which look mysteriously Russian) for an escaped prisoner, Shrek. Danny ends up in jail himself as an undercover agent, who then is launched into a plotless chase after a crime syndicate. I couldn't tell you any more if I wanted to, there is no story!
This hunk of sweaty turd ruined two hours of my life. This is honestly the worst movie I have ever seen crawl out of a toilet and onto my TV screen. It is simply horrible.
To begin with, the plot seems to develop naturally for the first ten minutes, until Daniel Berndhart decides to shoot two of his fellow policemen for no apparent reason. Quickly followed by a demented scene involving a riduculous closeup on the face of a chubby courtmaster, I suddenly knew how terribly low budget this Russian horror flick was going to progress.
The director's idea of a special effect was zooming in way to close for comfort on the actors and making nasty noises. For example, after the prison warden speaks with a crime boss, his nervousness is expressed through fogging up the camera lens with his panting gasps. Besides just special effects, the horrendously low budget showed itself through the fact that every scene occured in one building that looked strikingly familiar to the Kremlin. The police station, prision office, and gangster's hideout, all have short clips showing the aforementioned before cutting to the action.
Now to the actors themselves. The only redeeming quality of this cast is the coincendence that one of them looked exactly like Benjamin Franklin (the gangster). However, he had some distinctly un-colonial personality traits, such as his fetish for positioning 20 scantily clad women around his throne, all of whom seemed to serve no purpouse beyond decoration.
Lets move on to the unique wardrobe feautured in the film. Costumes ranged from victorian era dress suits to 1920s striped jail uniforms to industrial era clothing reminiscent of Oliver Twist. As a bonus, the prison guards dressed like members of the Gestappo and travelled in packs to boot. Most suprising of all is the fight uniform of one of the "kumite" (which never really happens) participants, a speedo swim suit.
Before closing, I would like to point out how random and worthless the majority of the scenes were. There are to many to include, but my personal favorite was when two gypsies performed before Ben Franklin for 5 minutes, adding nothing to the plot but more senslessness. This makes "Jaws III" look like a classic. Simply stated, I cant evin express the pain watching this movie put me through, I would rather gouge out my eyes with a rusty grapefruit spoon than watch it again. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! UGH....

DEFINITELY THE DARK ONE...
In a break from the prior story lines, Daniel Bernhardt portrays JOHN KELLER, a US Agent presumably operating in the U.S. (but a foreign location is more precise judging by exterior shots) who is asked to go undercover at in a local prison to find out about some mysterious deaths involving the inmates. Keller learns that the Warden is in cahoots with a Caesar, a wealthy nut who stages his own version of the "Kumite" for entertainment and he has been targeted to participate. This is definitely not Bernhardt's best work. Obviously by deviating from the true formula of the Bloodsport films, the writer and director have created a hodgepodge that is difficult to follow and swallow. Bernhardt's true martial arts abilities are never used and the film sorely lacks in the action department. If the franchise is to continue, the writers should stay true to the formula. Even though this film is poor by most standards, Bernhardt is still the "action star to watch for". Just check out BLOODSPORT 2 & 3, TRUE VENGEANCE and PERFECT TARGET.

Horrible
This movie is one of the most boring and horrible films I have ever seen, (with the worst being Captain America). The plot revolves around a corrupt prison warden who makes his prisoners fight to the death to feed the sadistic hunger of some wealthy lunatic. While the plot sounds interesting and has the potential to be interesting, the way the movie was carried out is incredibly slow. The fight scenes in the movie are pathetic. In the original Bloodsport, we were treated with action packed, and lengthy fight scenes. In this movie all the fight scenes are extremely short, a minute, two or three, with the exception of the last fight scene (which definitely does not make up for the rest of the movie). In this movie, most of the fights are all to the death, with the fight sequence going something like this: Martial arts punch, kick, roll away, break opponents neck, next fight, repeat. While it is up to you whether you want to rent this movie or not, I would advise you to rent a second movie to fall back on.