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| Kickboxer 4 - The Aggressor [1994] | ![Kickboxer 4 - The Aggressor [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ERFDJZEJL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Albert Pyun
Actors: Sasha Mitchell, Nicholas Guest, Michele Krasnoo, Brad Thornton, Deborah Mansy
Studio: Film 2000
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 Kicked in the face January 7, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I fully expected to find this film directed by Alan Smithee or some such pseudonym. However, the director Albert Pyun has such credits as 'Brainsmasher: A Love Story' and 'Alien from L.A.' on his curriculum vitae, so (despite the almost-tolerable film such as 'Cyborg') I thought I might have stumbled upon the reincarnation of Ed Wood. However, I know 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'; I've seen 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'. This film is no 'Plan 9 from Outer Space'. pThis is one of those low-budget, martial arts films designed to capitalise on the success of earlier glories. There was a successful film, entitled 'Kickboxer', which starred Jean-Claude van Damme (and not directed by Pyun). Van Damme steered clear of the sequels to make other films (not all successful; his film 'Coyote Moon' was as bad as 'Kickboxer 4', prompting that director to Smithee out under the non de plume Danny Mulroon). Thus, Kurt Sloane had to have a successor, David Sloane, played by Sasha Mitchell (yes, that guy from the sit-com, 'Step by Step'). David Sloane is obviously not from Europe, so his relationship to Kurt Sloane is, well, who cares? If one is looking for continuity in across the four-arc trainwreck of Kickboxer, one must get used to disappointment. There's often no continuity from scene to scene. pYou also have to wonder about a sequel so bad on paper that the actor who plays the villain in earlier segments, Michael Quissi, decides to give it a miss. So, we get a poorly disguised Kamel Krifa as Tong Po (one-time national martial arts champion of Thailand, now a Mexican drug-lord and sex slave trader - does that qualify as a lateral career move?); Krifa isn't even credited in the film, taking Quissi's place. The make-up is so pathetic that the plastic bits of the mask seem to be falling off even before Krifa starts his martial routines. I've seen better make-up jobs at local civic theatre events having to rely on grandmother's make-up case because of no budget. pAnyway, back to the story. Sloane, ambiguous relation to Kurt 'muscles from Brussels' Sloane, has to rescue his wife from his arch-enemy holding her hostage as a sex slave in a desert hideout that doubles as a ranch for martial arts tournaments where the fighting is to the death. Oh, yes, it also doubles as a drug-lord hideaway, with distribution and production and such. By now you're probably asking - how can you go wrong with that set-up? The plot practically unfolds without help into a winning formula, right? Well, it probably did unfold by itself. Sloane is in jail (who knows why, framed apparently, but for what, and by whom? Uh, once again, who cares?), then gets out of jail to go to this tournament. He meets up with Peppermint Patti, er, Megan Lawrence (Michelle Krasnoo) who also wants to go to this martial arts tournament. pFirst there are tryouts. Peppermint Patti tries, and Sloane fells her with a single stroke. Somehow, she is still permitted into the tournament. Okay. Oh, and it turns out that another contestant is an undercover DEA agent (Brad Thornton, in what appears to have been his only film role ever), just as Sloane it turns out is a former DEA agent. What a lucky combination for them that the martial arts contest is at the drug lord's hideaway! pOf course, they are discovered, but not after furtive scenes with the sex slaves, and Sloane searching for his wife. There is more to life than martial arts, you know. But not much more, apparently. Oh, and what would the film be without some gratuitous torture before getting to the main events - the contest (where the contestants are finally told the 'to-the-death' rule, to the surprise of many), and the final showdown in a martial arts fight that is just sad. pNow, I must confess to be no connoisseur of martial arts choreography, but one doesn't have to follow the ballet regularly to know a bad dancer; this was pathetic, particularly compared to the martial arts performances at the 'tournament' just a few scenes earlier. Here we are having the classic showdown between good and evil, Sloane against Po in a no-holds-barred kickboxing contest, and what do we see? Picnic tables overturned, barely a blow landed against the other, and after practically everyone is now dead, Po makes his escape through a side door. One can almost see him twisting his mustache as a silent-picture villain as he scutters across the lawn and off to Kickboxer 5, if they'd have him. pI know it is bad form to give away the ending, but Sloane and his wife, Peppermint Patti and the DEA agent all live, as we see them all, bruised and bloody, out the door and into the nether world of 'will there be another sequel?' pHey, what are the odds? That there were FOUR of these films was astonishing enough - probably three too many. 'Kickboxer 4: The Aggressor' - why the aggressor? Who knows? Because martial arts is aggressive, I suppose. 'Kickboxer 4' should have the appendage 'A Sucker Born Every Moment' for anyone who paid to see this. pThis is a bad film. BAD. I watched it on a cable channels when it came on; I was half asleep and couldn't find the remote, and couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. This film did have the kind of mesmerising effect of being so bad that one just couldn't stop watching. I drifted off to sleep now and again through the film, but somehow don't think that detracted from the experience. pMitchell and Nicholas Guest are good actors. I've seen them in shows where they were good. This is not one of them. I can't speak to the other actors, and feel very sorry for Brad Thornton to have this as the only film on his resume. No one deserves such a fate. pWatch it at your own risk.
 Thumbs In The Middle July 9, 2004
I waited a long time to see this film. I'd heard that this film was a cross between 'Bloodsport' and the 'Mortal Kombat' games. Where most of the action takes place in tournament fighting. And also because Tong Po returned to the franchise.pWell this isn't a bad film but I was disappointed by it. The film is advertised along the lines of what Ive written above, but it turns out to be a non-event.pThe story is that David Sloane (Sasha Mitchell) has been framed for a crime he didn't committ and Tong Po is ex-rival has kidknapped his wife and holds her as a sex slave. Tong Po is a wanted man though so the Police release Sloane to 'take care' of Tong Po. Anyway Sloane manages to enter Tong Po's own tournament but the two never fight as part of the tournament, and although Sloane does give Tong Po a good hiding he never gets sufficent revenge for what he and his wife have been put through. pIt is very violent and was once banned for it. Tong Po is not played by Michel Qissi in this film. He is played by Kamel Krifa. Although Krifa is a lot smaller than Qissi, the makers of the film could have gotten away with it, if they had the character say very little. However they don't and for a couple of reasons Tong Po comes off as quite camp rather that intimidating.pCriticisms aside this isn't a bad film, it's quite good but with an unsatisfactory ending, leaving the opportunity for another sequel (which did happen but has no relation at all to any of the other films or characters). Brainless action thriller, if you like that sort of stuff it's worth a watch.
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