Academia de Kickboxing

This is the worst movie ever made. The fighting (if you can call it fighting) scenes are worse than the 3 Ninjas movies. Fart noises and stupid faces make up this movie. This is stupid even for a kid flick. Stay very far away from this movie.

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.

This movie was a pleasant surprise. Pretty good acting, a fun story, great action,and some really funny moments. My expectations weren't too high for this film; but it was truly entertaining. I would recommend this movie to any family that wants to watch something together and have a great time.

I had the displeasure of watching this film. Frankly, it has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The acting is horrible, the writing pathetic, the dialog is comical, and if it werent for the occasional good looking teenie-bopper babe walking by, this film would make me violently ill. Whatever you do, do not pay to watch this film. Hell, they should pay YOU!

STAR RATING:*****Unmissable****Very Good***Okay**You Could Go Out For A Meal Instead*Avoid At All Costs

This tosh is sort of a victim of the environment in which it was filmed.Obviously by a film company that's probably gone bust by now,with a no name cast,an unheard of director and shoddy,sub standard editing and writing (i.e.,featuring kickboxing in the title,despite all of the combat on display being karate,asking us to believe referees at a fight tournament would allow rival competitors distracting their opponents in the ring by shouting derogatory comments at them and throwing in attacks from outside the ring and blatant cheating in general to go unnoticed without having them disqualified or anything).Throw into the equation cliched characters (with terrible actors to play them),tired dialogue and a laughably over the top ending involving a gun toting sensei,and you have a film that could not belong to any confines other than that of made for TV and straight to video hell and is,as an aside,about one notch off being totally unwatchable.*