Academia de Kickboxing

I was flipping through the channels one unproductive day and I happened upon this flick on Showtime. I don't know why I stopped flipping when I came to it. It was just one of those crazy things that happens. But I'm glad I stopped because I witnessed one of the absolute worst movies I've ever seen in my life.

From what I got out of it, the plot is a Karate Kid retread involving a Bad News Bears type of karate school and the big and mean kids from the evil school. Why is there always an evil school? Anyway, if you've seen any teen sports movie since 1985 you pretty much know how this one turns out.

The thing that caught me was the acting. It was so astonishingly bad that I was wondering if they were doing it on purpose. I think the kids they hired were the children of the crew because by the looks of things they couldn't afford real child actors. And there was one truly shocking thing in this whole mess. Steven Bauer! How the hell did Manny from Scarface get himself into this. Did he owe a life debt to the director. My God!

Anyway, if you're truly in the mood for a god awful movie, and we all get in that mood sometime, then by all means check out Kickboxing Academy. You won't be disapointed.