![]() ![]() ![]() Watch Kickboxer: Retaliation Online Full Free. Kickboxer: retaliation full movie with English subtitle. Stars: Christopher Lambert, Sara Malakul Lane, Jean Claude Van. British label Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray director Dimitri Logothetis' film Kickboxer: Retaliation (2017. © Our House Films & ACME Rocket Fuel. All rights reserved. © Our House Films & ACME Rocket Fuel. All rights reserved. To help him prepare is, of course, Jean-Claude Van Damme, also returning from the 2016 film. Van Damme, to remind ourselves, made himself a household name with the original 1989 Kickboxer, so his appearance lends the proceedings a good deal of affable legitimacy. That he also starred in 1994's Street Fighter only lends Retaliation a much needed dose of daffiness that prevents it from stooping into a film-killing self-seriousness. Retaliation is not nearly as loony as, say, 2006's D.O.A.: Dead or Alive (indeed, very few films are as loony as that one), but it knows to keep the action brisk, the fights plentiful, and the tone approachable. And, most importantly, the fighting is first rate. Using long takes and practical stunts, the filmmakers present their set pieces as stunning showcases of actual physical talent. Moussi backflips and uppercuts with the best of them, often fighting off more than a dozen foes in a single take; there is an impressive fight sequence in the Thai prison that can easily rival anything in Atomic Blonde. That he so often interacts with other athletes and stuntmen also ensures a natural professional camaraderie between the characters; Moussi is one of the few on-screen actors I have seen who actually develops chemistry with Mike Tyson. To let my mind wander to video games for a moment: Mike Tyson was not only the star of his very own 1987 NES game, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, but was the inspiration for the Street Fighter character M. Bison (whose name was changed to Balrog in America). That means Kickboxer: Retaliation, including Van Damme's and Lambert's participation, has two solid spiritual connections to Street Fighter, one to Mortal Kombat, and one to the NES. Old school gamers, then, may experience an additional minor thrill. Retaliation is already slated to have a follow-up later this year in the form of Kickboxer: Syndicate, and while the world may not have been aching for this much deep-cut exploration of the 1989 film's complex mythology, we seem to at least be getting treated to reasonably exciting and physically impressive stunt showcases along the way. ![]() May all unasked-for fight sequels be as watchable as this one. ![]()
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