I won't explain the rest of the plot, as you can watch the movie to see it. From its opening moments it's obvious that KICKBOXER 2 is struggling under the leaden weight of humorlessness. Sasha Mitchell makes a decent replacement for Van Damme perhaps lacking in physique and skill, but definitely on par in the brain power department. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Kickboxer 2: The Road Back near you. Thankfully, the non-Pyun-directed part 3 in the series was a much-needed shot in the arm and is a lot of fun. Honestly, I don't recall anybody mentioning David three years earlier in the original "Kickboxer" with Van Damme. Altogether, "Kickboxer 2: The Road Back" is strictly standard-issue. Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio) comfortably wins his heavyweight kickboxing match and remains undefeated. Heck, Tong Po is back and in always ready for carnage. The fights are well staged and there is an excess of campy acting which is a requisite of this genre. With Van Damme now hitting the big leagues, this sequel to 1989’s ‘Kickboxer’ revolves around a previously unmentioned third Sloane brother. I actually found "Kickboxer 2" to be quite watchable, and an improvement over the original. Maciah's new associate, Sanga (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa of "Rising Sun"), pressures Maciah into switching fighters. But this is a review of Kickboxer, JCVD's homage to the ancient Thai martial art. $3.99 Rent HD. Kurt eventually married Mylee and they are still there partying today. Rating Filter. Only now the Sadly though, this ‘Home Alone’ approach to sequel-making doesn’t exactly work for ‘Kickboxer 2’. | Write a Review (0 reviews) Write a review and get bonus points. I own both films and I prefer this one to the VAN DAMME prequel. See similar items below. The star of the original, Van Damme! He just comes across as far too much of a subdued “surfer dude” to really convince and you can’t help but think he would be far more at home in a ‘Bill and Ted’ movie. Sascha Mitchell can deliver a line marginally better than Van Damme, and pretty much everyone involved with this film tries as manfully as they can to treat it with as much seriousness as possible. KICKBOXER 2 laces graphic violence with a corrupting Eastern world view. This film is a prime example of why some sequels discredit the original film. While it's a good thing that Sasha Mitchell took over from Van Damme - if the Kickboxer series was to continue without him, anyway - because Mitchell is likable and has good screen presence, the other side of the coin is that Albert Pyun directed Kickboxers 2 and 4. You gotta love Xian Chow...still the same old mentor from Part 1...sarcastic and serious at the same time!!! The David S. Goyer screenplay recycles the original movie's narrative. No, Mitchell doesn't play Kurt Sloane. Apart from Pyun's competent directing, there isn't much of anything else to think about since you've seen this story before. Unfortunately, none of it is particularly exciting to watch and even established martial arts B-movie stars like Matthias Hues seem to get lost in the mix. In order to avenge his death, he gets help from Xi'an(Dennis Chan), Kurt's sensei from Thailand. David doesn't want to fight like his brothers but the gym is struggling. Some are better than others, ... Fantasia 2019 Review: DREADOUT Could Have Dreaded Further Out. When hot shot fight promoter Maciah (Boyle) and his associate Sanga (Tagawa) offer to give Sloan some major fights and basically rocket him to fame, Sloan declines, because money and notoriety mean nothing to him, he has far too much integrity. 38. Of course. Chan trained Van Damme in the original. His best protégé Brian wants to fight and even David has to fight to keep the gym open. | 1991 90 minutes. Jan 15, 2012. quite an interesting followup to Van Damme's original. And this is what Kickboxer 2 does. Brian has been matched up with one fighter, but at the last moment, Tong Po (Michel Qissi of "Kickboxer") replaces him. This sequel is none of those things and is in most respects an awful film. David seems to carry on the honor Kurt has set for him. There’s plenty of slow motion close-ups when people get punched in the face and it all feels a lot more like a set of official kickboxing bouts (rousing all-American music included). Pyun likes to reuse footage of feet, hands, knees, and legs battering opponents in rapid succession. Realistically, this film is the kind of reliable cinematic comfort food that only hardcore fans are aware of thanks to the vagueries of the Direct-to-Video and Video-on-Demand markets. Audience Reviews for Kickboxer 2: The Road Back. Sasha Mitchell (an amateur kick boxing champion in real life) replaces Van Damme (a person who NEVER fought in the ring a day in his life) as the lead role. "Kickboxer 2" unworthy of a sequel to "Kickboxer". Sasha Mitchell is no Van Damme but he holds a strong screen presence and his martial arts skills are excellent. Focusing on Brian, a character who actually seems to have a moral dilemma, would have clearly made for a more interesting tale. Thriller. $3.99 Buy. Write a review. Kickboxer 2: The Road Back is the official sequel to the original Kickboxer flick that was released in 1989 starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and was supposedly going to have Van Damme reprising his role - only for the muscles from Brussels to turn it down, in favour of Double Impact, which was a massive success and that it did way better than this film did. Spoilers coming. (2 Reviews) 0 % would recommend to a friend. Sasha Mitchell stars as David Sloan the brother of Kurt Sloan (Jean-Claude Van Damme) who takes on Tong Po (Michael Qissi) a brutal fighter who was beaten in Bangkok by Kurt, however Tong Po has killed Kurt and now demands a match with David to reclaim his honor in this disappointingly dull sequel which takes itself far too seriously. This disappointing, Where is Van Damme, If you change actors.. Change all actors, Change Tong Po and others was actors in Kickboxer 1, Thanks for this work. But no, he just offers some rather basic physio while David wanders off to do tai chi in the park with homeless people. Full Review: Clint Morris (Moviehole) Kickboxer 2 is laughable fun. Nevertheless, Hollywood will do whatever it takes to keep a franchise like this one alive and kicking. Kickboxer Two is the sequel to the Kickboxer movie. This sequel continues from the original Kickboxer. It has many classic moments, from the heightened revenge plot, to those classic, tortuous training sequences to the outstanding ending, one of the best-filmed fights of all time. User Ratings No one really seems to like this film however i think it is a solid entry. The real problem is that the film takes itself far too seriously, ditching all of the cheesy montages and Thai backdrop in favour of a far more generic Saturday morning special style of storytelling. Indeed, Maciah breaks some pretty big rules when he allows an unauthorized boxer on his premise. I really enjoyed the first film I thought it was great,definitely one of Van Dammes best,and I wonder how this would've been had he returned for it but alas he wasn't offered enough money and passed on it. The older teen girl who trains with David and lives at the gym, is something of interest too. Mitchell is an adequate martial artist and okay actor but the role gives him little to do and it's only the well staged fight sequences which give K2 the only watchable edge it has. A solid 8/10. David Sloan (Sasha Mitchell) is Kurt's younger brother. KICKBOXER is one of my favourite Van Damme movies. Worse, he gets to encounter a threat bigger than the fighter he took out: Tong Po! Buy movie tickets in advance, find movie times, watch trailers, read movie reviews, and more at Fandango. Hear is another Rocky, beat the unbeatable, film, where this one is quite fun, due to the interaction of Mitchell and the little punk kid, or just Mitchell. FAQ To this end, I borrowed the first 3 "Kickboxer" movies from my mate. Justin Maciah (Peter Boyle) runs United Kickboxer Association and wants him to fight. A sequel minus Jean Claude Van Damme? One of the good things about this is the return of Michael Qissi as Tong Po. We have some corrupt outside forces here too (the right actors in the roles) responsible for torching David's gym, and taking a little boy with it, where the grand fight of vengeance, literally, becomes one to the death, in and outside the ring. I have heard a lot of flack over this movie because it doesn't star Jean Claude but I thoroughly enjoyed it and think Sasha Mitchell did a wonderful job picking up where his predecessor left off. He runs a gym in LA teaching kids kickboxing. ... 'Kickboxer 2' is a sequel that just fails miserably in trying to recreate any of the magic of the Van Damme original. David runs the gym that his brother's started. You would assume that he’s going to train David to be a better fighter and help him to find a way to beat Tong Po. Kurt and Eric Sloan have been killed in revenge by Tong Po, under instructions from his manager Sanga. When it comes to action sequences in ‘Kickboxer 2’, it’s clear that Albert Pyun was trying to recreate a ‘Rocky’-esque style of fighting film. So the fact that Kurt Sloane (Van Damme in the previous movie - who spells his name with an "E", which is either an indication of Estevez-Sheen-style family dysfunction, or a simple oversight) is now dead and there's a brother that was never previously mentioned, and it's something us as viewers are supposed to simply ignore. Be the first to write a customer review. One of the hero's close friends is destroyed in the arena and our hero vows to even things up for not only his friend, but also for himself. David Sloan (Sasha Mitchell), the youngest and last of the great Sloan dynasty, struggles to keep the family kickboxing gym afloat. The fights are well staged and there is an excess of campy acting which is a requisite of this genre. With the first fight clocking in at almost the 30-minute mark, Kickboxer 2: The Road Back is filled with a whole lot of story and not enough foot-to-the-face action. Kickboxer two picks up with the apparent deaths of the Sloan brothers Eric and Kurt (Van Damme) from the first film and follows another brother, also no resemblance to the others and his gym. The cast is full of unknowns which deliver a fine perfomance for the genre. He runs the karate school that Kurt and his paralyzed brother started. Old Albert does have an over-reliance on slo-mo, but Pyun does include a montage with a great song, "A Man Alone" by Savoy Brown and a training sequence, separate and apart from each other. The Best Damme Movie Ever! Michel Qissi returns to the role that made him famous!!! See we have the same unbeatable badass who did in Van Damne, so the bar is set remarkably high, it's scary, for David to overthrow this long haired, ugly looking oaf, who took his brother's life. With Sasha Mitchell, Peter Boyle, Dennis Chan, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. What will happen? 163 global ratings. His hopes rest on his pupil Brian Wagner (Vince Murdocco) who is a talent for the future and David hopes to get him into the big fights soon. ‘Kickboxer 2’ is a weak martial arts movie and a disappointing follow-up to one of Van Damme’s breakout hits. Film fan, anime addict, gaming geek, metalhead, and supreme dark overlord of Far East Films. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 5 star 70% 4 star 10% 3 star 10% 2 star 3% 1 star 7% Kickboxer 2. by Sasha Mitchell. An antsy student who trained under David, Brian Wagner (Vince Murdocco), wants to become a contender in the kickboxing world. Now it's time for Tong Po to pay! Despite attempting to use several of the same ingredients, the serious tone mixed with sub-par fight sequences and an overly familiar plot somehow manages to suck all of the fun out of it. This was just a dream. This gives a link to the first film and makes the whole thing more interesting. In this case, "Kickboxer" should have stood alone but instead was followed by B-movie reject "Kickboxer 2". Sweat and blood merge, in some quite violent bits, it takes it's time, getting to. Unfortunately, Brian must fight the evil Tong Po (Qissi) - the man that killed David's brothers. Fight Choreography well handled by kickboxer Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. How are ratings calculated? Overview of Kickboxer 2, 1991, directed by Albert Pyun, with Sasha Mitchell, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Dennis Chan, at Turner Classic Movies An excellent sequel to the original Kickboxer. With the success of Kickboxer in 1989, production company Kings Road Entertainment decided to take advantage and using a screenplay from David S. Goyer (Batman Begins), the second chapter of the saga introduces a third brother of the Sloane family.. Actor and model Sasha Mitchell takes over the series as David Sloane, the youngest of the family. There are the evil Asians, which might be construed as a reflection of our economic fears, but little is done with it. I give it a 5 out of 10, which is more in line with the overall quality of this than the measly 3.3 displayed on the IMDb at the moment. Write a Review. Despite attempting to use several of the same ingredients, the serious tone mixed with sub-par fight sequences and an overly familiar plot somehow manages to suck all of the fun out of it. David Sloan (Mitchell) the youngest brother runs there gym in a run down hood with crapy equipment and low life brats coming around his gym. I am known for willingly watching ANY movie I haven't seen, whether it has the potential to be awful or not. First rule of movies like this, stick to the basics. Directed by Albert Pyun. Verified Purchase. Kickboxer 2 is, well, an unnecessary sequel which unfortunately lacked the presence of the phenomenal Jean-Claude Van Damme. It's better to watch something new before I have to save it for later. Kickboxer two is not the worst movie in the rather dull series, but it is rather boring with low production values. The nemesis of the Sloane Clan shows up in a truly preposterous plot reversal. And we get the return of Dennis Chan!!! Model: 09349414 . The fight gets fixed and Tong Po comes out and proceeds to wreck Brian and kill him. I also found the fight sequences more realistic and less narcissistic than in the first one, although my friend disagrees with me. 0 reviews 4 0. No van Damme. With quite a backdrop of story, since it's predecessor, Mitchell interestingly enough stars as David Sloan, brother to Kurt Sloan (Van Damne from the first one). Sure, it has Sasha Mitchell, but no one knows who he is and really most people care about him even less than they do van Damme. I picked up the Kickboxer 5 pack because I remember seeing these on Cable TV when I was younger and enjoying them a lot. Mitchell, who studies taekwondo in real-life, may be a talented fighter but we certainly don’t see it on screen. Mitchell makes a nice enough guy, but he doesn't conjure up any of that Van Damme charisma. This time, the lead role went to Sasha Mitchell , who would not only go on to star in the following two installments, but also came into a bit of TV fame with the Suzanne Somers show Step By Step . The story is simple enough. Dennis Chan has some amusing lines, but he doesn't give Sasha the treatment that he inflicted on Van Damme. In fact, much of the emphasis this time is not on the title character, but on the heroine. This sequel was a little too short, and needed more plot to it. Kickboxer 2 is a knockout dragout sequel. 2 out of 5 stars! In this sequel, the story starts off with the brother of Kurt Sloan, David(Sasha Mitchell). Too, we have the great Dennis Chan who just grows on you, someone too good for these kind of films, as is the great character actor, John Diehl as Sloan's manager in a likable performance. It is one of many of these types of flicks which could make you cry if you take it seriously, in that you'll regret paying money to rent, or (God forbid) buy it. There are no wacky, bizarre edges. Each actor was "wooden" & underachieving as well as overpaid for this film. Then we have Dennis Chan, who pops up around the halfway mark for no real reason whatsoever. Also if anyone has the song 'BROTHER'S EYES' from the movie please let me know. Former Calvin Klein model Sasha Mitchell takes over the part vacated by Jean-Claude Van Damme in director Albert Pyun's "Kickboxer 2: The Road Back," co-starring Peter Boyle, Dennis Chan, John Diehl, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and Michel Qissi. David now must take revenge and fights traditional old school Muay Thai and defeats him. Van Damme passed on the chance to reprise his role, so we're saddled with the spurious 'missing brother' claim and the resultant film must be one of the most pointless ever made. Meanwhile, one of his best students, Brian (Murdocco) has been snapped up by a hotshot promoter and believes he is on the road to stardom. This item is no longer available in new condition. However, what was missing was that in the 1st film, David Sloan was never mentioned. Reviews. But in either case, Tong Po is back and he's thirsty for revenge. Review: Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991) Starring Sasha Mitchell, Dennis Chan, Peter Boyle, Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa (CHT) Matthias Hues, Michel Qissi, Vincent Murdocco, Gene Lebell. Tong Po, you may remember, was the culprit in the original "Kickboxer" who gave Jean-Claude something to worry about. Happily, Dennis Chan reappears. | Is the second entry into the Kickboxer film series , and stars Sasha Mitchell in the role of David Sloan (although spelled Sloane in the first movie) the brother of Kickboxer ' s lead character Kurt, portrayed by Jean-Claude Van Damme . Kickboxer 2. Kickboxer 2 › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. This sequel centers on the exploits of David Sloan, the younger brother of the two fighters who died in the first installment. 4.3 out of 5. However, when a mysterious opponent from Thailand issues a challenge, both David and Chow advise him against taking the fight. And yet I could have watched "Kickboxer" and deleted it, and saved the other movie. After our hero turns down an offer from an unscrupulous promoter Justin Maciah (Peter Boyle of "Young Frankenstein") to join him in the kickboxing world, Brian accepts Maciah's offer. We do better here, with a new unknown, Mitchell, who of course can act better, than the robotic Van Damme. I remember watching the hit "Kickboxer". "Kickboxer: Retaliation" is that kind of crowd-pleaser, a movie whose creators probably think they're bringing back "old school" values and techniques to modern-day audiences. You can see every blow coming at you in the by-the-numbers plot that ripples with no surprises. The energetic fights salvage this opus. American Kickboxer 2 is a martial arts movie that follows the tragic plight of a kidnapped eight year-old girl. Full Review: Michael Wilmington (Los Angeles Times) Kickboxer 2 is better than Kickboxer, the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle that spawned it. | 4.3 out of 5 stars. We are told that Kurt got sick of fighting and left the business. First of all, I daresay that the rating for this movie is too low. Not only does Sasha have a good acting range, but has fighting skills to match. Fight Choreography by Benny” The Jet” Urquidez and Jim Nickerson. Its not a bad way to waste n hour and a half of your life but its an hour and a half you could be wasting re-watching the original Kickboxer. But most importantly, the fight scenes are decent, the plot is not that bad and if you sit back and relax you'll see that this movie is entertaining if you have the right kind of expectations beforehand. Sadly though, Pyun returned for part 4, as if to say "you kids were having too much fun in part 3". Nothing Oscar-worthy, but as a simple martial arts/action movie this is more than OK for a night's viewing. Unfortunately, David isn't much of a business man, and his friend Jack (John Diehl of "NBC-TV's "Miami Vice") struggles to keep the doors open and the bills paid. They retaliate by burning down the gym and Xian Chow (Dennis Chan) returns to help David recover from the burns and the lost. Brian trains rigorously and becomes a champion. Pyun's movies tend to have many scenes that drag, and this movie as a whole is too dark and logical. 5 star rating. Review: Billed as a sequel to Kickboxer, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, David Sloan (changed from Sloane in the original) (Sasha Mitchell) runs a kickboxing gym in Los Angeles.Since the events of the original film, Kurt and Eric Sloan have been killed by the ruthless Tong Po (Michel Qissi), and all hope for vindicating the Thai kickboxing community looks lost. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. ‘Kickboxer 2’ is a weak martial arts movie and a disappointing follow-up to one of Van Damme’s breakout hits. He’s not a bad actor per se and actually worked well in the sitcom ‘Step by Step’, but he doesn’t seem to fit the bill here. Our carnal mind is insufficient in conquering temptations (Ephesians 2:1). This film also has a great soundtrack which unfortunately was never released, Give it a chance cause this is a feel good martial arts movie along the lines of AMERICAN SHAOLIN. 4 star rating. Reviews. Spittle and blood fly during their evocative scenes. (wait a minute...). He mentors children at his gym and takes aside one little smart aleck to teach him life's lessons. But a sequel? Peter Boyle must've needed the paycheque and Michael Qissi ( Van Dammes real life good mate) return's as Tong Po the Thai Kickboxing champion. This was decent in my opinion. David wins, but opponent takes revenge on him and needs help getting back into shape...enter Xian (Chan). Nobody wants a fight movie with some overwrought, ambitious ‘script’ from some punk just out of film school, those are kept for Adrien Brody and John Cusack these days. When he awakes, he finds himself face-to-face with a man by the name of Chow (Chan) who has apparently been bought in to aid his recovery. 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