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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAn American gymnast travels to the distant land of Parmistan to compete in a deadly game not won by a foreigner in more than nine hundred years.An American gymnast travels to the distant land of Parmistan to compete in a deadly game not won by a foreigner in more than nine hundred years.An American gymnast travels to the distant land of Parmistan to compete in a deadly game not won by a foreigner in more than nine hundred years.
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Edward Michael Bell
- Paley
- (as Edward Bell)
Zlatko Pokupec
- Mackle
- (as Z. Pokupec)
Slobodan Dimitrijevic
- Tamerlane
- (as S. Dimitrijevic)
Ivo Kristof
- Brockschmidt
- (as I. Kristof)
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- QuizThe film debut of Kurt Thomas, a former Olympic gymnast and his only starring role in his career.
- BlooperDuring the pommel horse fight scene with the "Parmistan" loonies, the ropes on the pommel horse mysteriously appear and disappear throughout the fight sequence.
- Citazioni
Eastern Trainer: There are many sounds around us, each is slightly different. So small as to go un-noticed by the person who is unaware. Do not hear the wood split. Hear the only sound of axe, cutting air. Read the air itself. It has much say to you.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Obscurus Lupa Presents: Gymkata (2010)
Recensione in evidenza
It's a rare film that actually attains the heights which it reaches for in a world so filled with really bad chop-socky flicks.
Which brings us to "Gymkata"... which succeeds in being the absolute WORST.
A shock, since it was directed by the same Clouse who gave the world "Enter the Dragon", Bruce Lee's signature film. But then, what can you expect in an action film that features Buck Kartalian?
The real star is Kurt Thomas, or at least that's what the credits say. But if every actor had as little talent as he, there would be no need for Lee Strasberg. Let's just say as an actor, Thomas makes a great gymnast.
Which is all this movie really calls for. Kurt plays a gymnast recruited by the CIA to help the good old US of A claim a distant land for their "Star Wars" military post. Great, we all think, until we realize Darth Vader won't be making an appearance.
But this also isn't a "Rambo"-style actioner - Kurt doesn't go in with machine guns and grenades, ready to blow this peace-loving country into submission. No, he is instead trained in the lethal art of gymkata, which consists of walking up a stairway using only your hands, carrying on a conversation with yourself with intermittent back-flips thrown in every so often and hoping and praying to God that wherever you fight there will be uneven bars, pummel horses and other gymnastic-looking pieces of architecture about.
Why all the training? BECAUSE, dear movie-lover, this aforementioned foreign country will only give its land over for military use to whichever nation's representative can finish a deadly kind of decathlon where everything from arrows, scimitars and the mentally-unbalanced are thrown at the competitors. Of course, with no other weaponry in evidence, it's shocking that Russia hadn't already claimed it. Heck, Australia could have shipped all their excess kangaroos over and kicked everyone into submission in less time than this movie takes.
Anyhoo, "Gymkata" is about as graceful as a doped-up rhinocerous and twice as intelligent. Of course, for entertainment value, there's always the Village of Crazies and Buck Kartalian playing the ruling Khan. Yes, the same Buck Kartalian who once played the lead in "Please Don't Eat my Mother", about a guy and his carnivorous plant (Buck played the guy).
And if you thought THAT movie was derivative....
No stars, no hope, no future and (please) no sequels for "Gymkata".
I understand there is also a 1978 movie called "Gymkata Killer". Well, there went the ONLY original thing about this movie - its title.
Which brings us to "Gymkata"... which succeeds in being the absolute WORST.
A shock, since it was directed by the same Clouse who gave the world "Enter the Dragon", Bruce Lee's signature film. But then, what can you expect in an action film that features Buck Kartalian?
The real star is Kurt Thomas, or at least that's what the credits say. But if every actor had as little talent as he, there would be no need for Lee Strasberg. Let's just say as an actor, Thomas makes a great gymnast.
Which is all this movie really calls for. Kurt plays a gymnast recruited by the CIA to help the good old US of A claim a distant land for their "Star Wars" military post. Great, we all think, until we realize Darth Vader won't be making an appearance.
But this also isn't a "Rambo"-style actioner - Kurt doesn't go in with machine guns and grenades, ready to blow this peace-loving country into submission. No, he is instead trained in the lethal art of gymkata, which consists of walking up a stairway using only your hands, carrying on a conversation with yourself with intermittent back-flips thrown in every so often and hoping and praying to God that wherever you fight there will be uneven bars, pummel horses and other gymnastic-looking pieces of architecture about.
Why all the training? BECAUSE, dear movie-lover, this aforementioned foreign country will only give its land over for military use to whichever nation's representative can finish a deadly kind of decathlon where everything from arrows, scimitars and the mentally-unbalanced are thrown at the competitors. Of course, with no other weaponry in evidence, it's shocking that Russia hadn't already claimed it. Heck, Australia could have shipped all their excess kangaroos over and kicked everyone into submission in less time than this movie takes.
Anyhoo, "Gymkata" is about as graceful as a doped-up rhinocerous and twice as intelligent. Of course, for entertainment value, there's always the Village of Crazies and Buck Kartalian playing the ruling Khan. Yes, the same Buck Kartalian who once played the lead in "Please Don't Eat my Mother", about a guy and his carnivorous plant (Buck played the guy).
And if you thought THAT movie was derivative....
No stars, no hope, no future and (please) no sequels for "Gymkata".
I understand there is also a 1978 movie called "Gymkata Killer". Well, there went the ONLY original thing about this movie - its title.
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- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 5.730.596 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 1.261.845 USD
- 5 mag 1985
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 30 minuti
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