Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305279211
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 6305279217
Label: DVD Ltd
Manufacturer: DVD Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: DVD Ltd
Release Date: February 02, 1999
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 94445
Studio: DVD Ltd
Theatrical Release Date: 1981-05
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Description:
Steve Chase, four-time World Martial Arts Champion, is hired to save Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dr. Horatio Kane from the hands of demented billionaire Marduk. Steve enlists the aid of four martial arts experts for this important assignment. Enroute to Marduk's stronghold, they are ambushed, but finally make it to the fortress. Captured, the martial arts are all these men have when they are thrown into an arena to fight for their lives.
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Rating:  - Great nostalgia value, little else.
Kill and Kill Again (Ivan Hall, 1981)
There are some bad movies I love, and I can't justify my love of them in any way save pure nostalgia. Kill and Kill Again, a movie I was obsessed with throughout my teen years, is one of them. It is, I believe, the first martial arts movie I ever saw; while I have seen many since, some worse, most better, this one holds a spot in my heart that nothing will ever replace.
Steve Chase (James Ryan) is a martial arts superstar who is called upon by the beautiful, deadly Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel) to save her father from the clutches of the evil Marduk (Michael Mayer), who is planning on releasing a mind-control drug (developed by Kane's father) into the American water supply. Of course, Marduk has leaked all this in order to attract Chase, so he can pit Chase up against his own pet martial arts champion, Optumis (Eddie Dorie). Chase gets together a team of fighters, and off they go to save the world.
It's astoundingly bad, even more so than I remembered. The script is derivative, the acting wooden, the plot convoluted and manipulative. And yet it's a stupidly fun movie to watch, one I could (and have, at many points in my life) see again and again without it ever getting old. Though I grant you, if you didn't first see it when you were young and impressionable, I doubt it will hold the same magic for you. **
Rating:  - Steve Chase rules!
James Ryan, a blatant Bruce Lee wannabe, stars in one of the best "so bad it's good" martial arts flicks of all time. I remember this thing being on late-night cable in the early 1980s constantly, and I'm here to tell you it's just as hammy and over-the-top as you remember it. Ryan and a bunch of middle-age posers (who seem to think they actually ARE martial artists) race to save the world from an evil madman bent on enslaving the planet with his mind-control serum. Of particular interest is the scene where Ryan stops a fired bullet from killing someone by jumping through the air and intercepting the bullet with a handheld 3" x 3" steel plate. Oh yes, it's THAT ridiculous!
Rating:  - Buy it for $10 plus shipping
All the previous reviews hit the nail on the head when talking about the campiness of this flick. It rolls up Enter The Dragon, Magnificent Seven and {Insert any Steven Seagal movie here} for the cheesy plot of a kidnapped professor who has created an alternative fuel source from taters {which is also a powerful mind control drug} and must be saved by a band of kung-fu good guys.
I wanted to second the notion that the DVD version of this film is as good as the VHS version. There are literally no special features and no care taken to create this DVD. The producers of this DVD version did NOT digitally remaster this film; it was simply transferred into a digital video format.
If you really want to see this film, pick up the VHS copy for $5 - $10 and do not get rooked into paying $30 - $40 for the DVD. This flick is worth the view, but since the quality is the same on either format, save your money and go old school.
{Quick note: I found my copy in a Value City bargain DVD bin for a $1.99 a couple years back. I suggest checking those cheap-o bins; sometimes you can find nuggets of DVD joy in the unlikeliest of places. Just don't expect the version you find to be Criterion quality.}
Rating: - Movies don't get too much better than this
This is one of the best cheesy movies of all time. James Ryan plays world Karate champion Steve Chase and he has to rescue a scientist. The scientist's daughter comes along and Steve gathers all his crazy friends for the mission. That is really all that needs to be said about the story. The great thing about this movie is the extreme corniness. The villain's voice is beyond classic, the dialogue should have won an Oscar, there are really too many good things to say about this, you just have to see it. The action is not great, but not bad. Some of the karate moves are very good and the tournament scene is AWESOME. The stunt double for James Ryan also enhances the action. 4/5 The DVD from Liberty International Entertainment is sadly full screen and the picture quality is not bad, but too dark in some scenes.
Rating:  - Campy movie classic from the 80s, DVD does not live up to it
I remembered this movie from daytime HBO in the early 80s. I was on a forum and we were discussing favorite martial arts movies, and I suddenly remembered this "classic". A poor man's(dirt poor, bordering on destitute) version of Enter the Dragon, it has average martial arts until the very end, when there are a couple of good scenes in the final arena battles. When I saw that it was on DVD, I immediately ordered it. The movie was just like I remembered it, and it is worth the $10. However, the print of the film is very poor, with certain parts very grainy or dark. The character of "Gorilla" played by Ken Grampu has no distinguishable facial characteristics at times. There isn't even a menu on the disc - both the quality of the disc and the quality of the print make it like you are watching a 20 year-old VHS tape. Plus, there's a picture on the back of the DVD case with two women (one of them with her shirt open and black censor circles over her nipples) that isn't even in the movie. By all means get it if you remember this campy classic and your VHS has worn out. My one star rating on this is for the DVD itself, not the movie.
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