A martial arts master seeking to save his brother from a murderous drug lord infiltrates a ferocious underground fighting ring despite the danger of knowing every move he makes could be his last. His brother is being used as an expendable drug mule by a Far East dope slinger, and now one determined fighter (Gary Daniels) will have to blast his way through some of the most vicious brawlers on the planet in order to make his way to the top and save his sibling from an unimaginably cruel fate.
Reviews
Gary Daniels stars in this atrocious martial arts flick as a martial artist who battles bad guys who set up death matches that lead to harvesting of organs and in which Daniels must protect his lunkheaded martial artist brother (Ian Jacklin of Kickboxer 3 fame) from competing in such a fight. People seem to hate Kickboxer 3 a lot, with tons of people saying it's the worst of such a series (I say 5 is worse and that it's about on par with 2.) Still while I always found that film to be sort of a guilty pleasure, Ian Jacklin who was the bad guy in that one was easily the weakest link, and in this film he is even worse as a good guy. Jacklin always comes off as a dumb jock and here you'll be rooting for him to buy it quickly. Gary Daniels meanwhile is in his salad bowl days and he clearly would go on to far better things. This is a very bad martial arts movie that has terrible fight sequences and even worse acting. It really is as abysmal as they come with nothing of any worth. Gary Daniels is a wooden actor but it wouldn't be fair for me to say that he is the reason this film is so horrid. Indeed Daniels was effective in Spoiler and he made some enjoyable trash with PM. American Streetfighter is definitely one of those films Gary Daniels wishes he could forget, and one that I would like to forget as well.1/2* out of 4-(Awful)
The story is OK and so is the acting but your first clue that it's not that great is the fact it's only a $1 and in a cardboard sleeve.It really is just another Martial arts movie not much to be said. It's from the early 90's and it shows. Not the amount of violence we love to see in todays movies a decade later. Honestly it's not to bad and I'd probably watch it again. Gary Daniels is honestly not a bad actor and is a pretty decent fighter.So when you judge this movie please realize it's not up to today's standards. It doesn't have big name actors and was probably a low budget film.
After the total disaster whose name was "Capital Punishment", every person with a tiny bit of sense in his/her mind should think that Gary Daniels would actually try to make a better movie this time. But no! This is nearly as bad. The only thing that's better here is the story. Although it was really bad, it still was progress from the total lack of plot in "Capital Punishment". Here, you could at least understand what was going on. Anyway, when a martial arts movie has a bad story (as they usually do), you focus on the fight scenes. There are lots and lots of them, but unfortunately they all just stink. It had been better if they had come up with ONE decent fight instead of about 15-20 extremely bad ones, but I guess the people behind this movie thought that quantity was the key.Well....it wasn't!!
This movie has all the martial arts action Gary Daniels fans expect from the master. But, it also has a good story. It moves at a fast pace and there is a fight about every 5 to 10 minutes. The training scenes are awesome! A must see for Gary Daniels fans. Just don't waste your time on the so called sequel.