Bad Guy Kill and Kill Again
Some other disappointing The states martial arts film
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KILL AND Impale AGAIN is one of those American martial arts films made during the 1970s and 1980s which stake into insignificance when compared to their rival productions being fabricated in Hong Kong. This one's another tournament flick in which a agglomeration of onetime and evil white men create a secret tournament for the world's elevation karate fighters; an ENTER THE DRAGON rip-off, in other words. Our improbably-named heroine, Kandy Kane, enlists the aid of a top fighter to go surreptitious and break the criminal gang; the story goes from there. This is very much a nothing special sort of motion picture, with criminally bad fight choreography which makes the fighters expect unskilled and out of shape; none of the hits come remotely close to hitting, and there'southward a distinct lack of excitement and interest on the viewer'due south part throughout.
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Hugely enjoyable tongue-in-cheek martial arts activeness romp
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Ace martial artist Steve Chase (a solid and charismatic performance by James Ryan) rounds up a crack team of rough'n'ready karate experts in lodge to rescue scientist Dr. Horatio Kane (John Ramsbottom) from the clutches of evil billionaire Marduk (broadly played by Michael Mayer, who sports an uproariously obvious simulated beard).
Director Ivan Hall, working from a blithely silly script by John Crowther, keeps the entertaining story moving along at a snappy pace, maintains an engaging lighthearted tone throughout, stages the lively chopsocky fights with rip-roaring flair (a rowdy barroom ball rates as a definite rousing highlight), and tops everything off with amusing touches of campy humour. The neat assortment of colorful characters adds considerably to this picture'south infectiously kitschy entreatment: Anneline Kriel provides delicious eye candy as foxy blonde babe Kandy Kane, Ken Gampu cuts an imposing effigy as amiable behemoth Gorilla, Marloe Scott Wilson well-nigh steals the whole show with her gut-busting portrayal of Marduk's sassy pink-haired main hench wench Minerva, Nib Flynn supplies affable comic relief as lovable slob Hotdog, Stan Schmidt spouts a lot of mystical mumbo jumbo hogwash equally the enigmatic The Wing (he levitates and scales loftier-rise building with no difficulty whatsoever), Norman Robinson contributes a likable plow as hillbilly bruiser Gypsy Billy, and Eddie Dorie makes for a suitably menacing flunky as hulking brute Optimus. The funky-pulsating score hits the get-down peachy spot. A really fun flick.
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Fun film!
As far as martial arts cinema goes, "Kill and Kill Once again" may be on the cheaper and cheesier side of things, but it is these very elements that brand information technology oh so amusing. Fans of the genre will find enough things to brand it a hoot to watch: a simple story, entertaining heroes and villains, negligible acting, beautiful South African scenery, and enough action to go along it watchable at all times.
A follow-upwardly to the earlier "Impale or Exist Killed", it stars James Ryan as Steve Chase, a martial creative person hired by a adult female named Kandy Kane (Anneline Kriel) to rescue her scientist father Dr. Horatio Kane (John Ramsbottom) - a possible relation to a sure C.S.I. detective? - who'south been kidnapped by a maniacal arch-villain, Marduk (Michael Mayer) who intends to control the populace of the Earth and have them exercise his bidding, thanks to a drug the scientist's discovered. And so Steve reconnects with some sometime buddies - The Fly (Stan Schmidt), Gorilla (Ken Gampu), Hotdog (Bill Flynn), and Gypsy Billy (Norman Robinson) - to form a rescue team.
At that place are enough inspired details in "Kill and Impale Again" to brand information technology very amusing: the fact that Mayer is clearly wearing a fake beard, his female partner in crime Minerva (Marloe Scott Wilson) who uses terms of endearment to address him in forepart of underlings, the early scenes of The Fly and Steve meeting (gotta dig the levitation), Gorilla acquiring the costume of a baddie and having it rip on him every bit he realizes information technology's non his size, and of course all of the various fight scenes. Things are so blatantly comedic at times that ane has to believe that screenwriter John Crowther and director Ivan Hall weren't e'er taking any of this likewise seriously.
This is precisely why this is a fun flick, and Hall keeps the action and the laughs coming. The movie doesn't accept long to start delivering the appurtenances, and the actors here look similar they're having a good time. Schmidt and Robinson besides serve as the martial arts choreographers, and while Ryan isn't a very expressive performer, he's still reasonably likable and has enough of a presence to make him a suitable hero for this sort of thing. It doesn't hurt that some of the female cast members, including Kriel, are quite attractive.
Overall, this is an adequate diversion leading to a fairly rousing finale and ending on an endearingly empty-headed final note.
Seven out of 10.
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Pseudo-violent title hides a tongue-in-cheek spoof of martial arts films
The title prepares yous for a martial arts bloodbath, but y'all gradually realize this is actually a SPOOF of the genre; I recall "white potato fuel" is the first clue. The "bring-the-old-team-together-for-1-more-mission" story is cliched, and the film is overlong, merely it is saved by the fact that information technology has its tonque firmly planted in its cheek. James Ryan is a terrible histrion, but his hands and anxiety speak more eloquently than his rima oris; luckily, the GORGEOUS Anneline Kriel gets her share of activity as well. I was going with ** out of 4 for this movie, until the unexpected "bullet-time" sequence at the terminate, xviii years earlier "The Matrix" (!), which adds another one/two star. Undemanding entertainment.
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James Ryan doesn't do too much killing...
This motion-picture show is played off as a sequel to the pic, Karate Killer aka Impale or Be Killed, but other than James Ryan in the lead the films take admittedly nothing in common besides recruitment scenes. This one is a bit more than polished and improve done than Karate Killer and has a better plot as well. Though in the end information technology is a fleck goofy in places as it is most definitely not a moving-picture show to be taken seriously.
The story has Steve Chase (James Ryan) accepting an award at a hotel and doing so in most spectacular fashion. He is then recruited to rescue a scientist who creates fuel from potatoes that also seems to double as a mind control drug. Seems a human being calling himself Marmduke and his super henchman Optimus have enslaved an unabridged town using this tater fuel mind control stuff! Steve recruits some of his old buddies who are all tough dudes and they embark on a quest to rescue the quondam human whose daughter accompanies the grouping and end the evil plans of the madman!
The moving picture does not take itself seriously at all and I am surprised it is not considered a comedy action. James Ryan does a pretty skillful task in the lead role and I but have to wonder why he would await so aged in Space Mutiny which would simply be filmed vi years subsequently. He looks similar he could exist his male parent in that moving picture!
And then not a great picture, only it was not all bad and had some interesting moments. Yous had your marshal arts on display, simply non and so much that it bogged down the moving picture's plot of the evil madman with designs to command the world though 1 wonders how exactly he was going to contaminate the water supplies of the world while seemingly only kind of stuck in the eye of nowhere.
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very silly,just fun
this is ane silly,preposterous moving picture,just it is fun.the dialogue is laughable.it's delivered in a laughable mode.the acting is mostly abysmal,sometimes it's worse.and don't get me started on the depression production values and the inexpensive audio effects.the plot is laughable too,of grade merely despite all this,or perchance considering of information technology,y'all have to go on watching.and none of the negatives thing.the movie is self enlightened,and knows what it is,and isn't trying to be annihilation else.like i said,information technology's a lot of fun.and some of the fighting scenes are pretty decent likewise.i didn't similar it as much equally it'southward prequel,Kill or be Killed,but it's withal worth a spotter.for me,Impale and Kill Again is a 6/10
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Love that beard!
The quick pitch: Martial arts master Steve Chase is hired to rescue an of import scientist who has been kidnapped for his murphy-to-fuel formula. His chemical process also produces a mind-command drug that the evil Marduk intends to use for world domination. (What kind of potatoes do they grow in Due south Africa?)
Until I ran across Impale and Kill Once again, I had no idea that a South African martial arts movie was a thing. Later watching this ane, if there are more, I run across why they're non very well known. Overall, Kill and Kill Once more is not really a very good movie. Interim, special effects, editing, and much of the script come straight from the bottom of the proverbial barrel. Two things that especially annoyed me, nevertheless, were (1) the lame, simplistic final act and (2) the uber tiresome-paced fight choreography.
That'southward not to say that Kill and Kill Again is all bad. In that location is quite a chip of fun to be had - even if some of it might be an unintentional express joy or two. The scenes where Chase is putting his band together are a highlight. Tug-of-state of war with a guy named Gorilla, levitation practice with the Fly, and junkyard fights with pal Gypsy Billy - information technology might exist stupid fun, but it'due south even so fun. And and then there's chief baddie Marduk - he'southward not really so menacing equally he is ridiculous looking. That bristles he wears looked like something y'all'd discover after Halloween in a dollar store clearance bin. Too funny.
4/10
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Kill or Exist Killed was better than this!
I had no knowledge of a sequel to the moving-picture show "Impale or Be Killed". This movie was OK, but information technology was rather corny than entertaining. The hero of the pic was always at his best, and this baldheaded guy was aught more than comedy relief. Thus he was rather helpful than hurtful, every movie should accept some sort of comedy relief to information technology. The plot was cracking, and the activity was still intact. Steve Chase(James Ryan) needed all the aid he could muster. Boy, did he e'er! The characters of the movie were great, the villains were a little better in this movie than the first, however it could use a slight comeback though. The only thing this movie has was a humorous ending, it helped save the stress from all the activeness of barrel-kicking. Depite of information technology all, it wasn't all too bad, I wished this movie was amend made and better advertised. It would had surpassed the beginning film, but it wasn't and to me I wished this movie was advertised like the first. What a pity! The decision is yours to go far a keeper or not. Rating ii out of 5 stars.
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Hokey and dizzy
This is a much hokier sequel that can be fun, even though it occasionally veers into a too cartoonish mould. The music gets wacky and the plot is totally ridiculous, just there's enough karate to tide you over. So-so flick.
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Kill and Kill Again (1981)
Directed past Ivan Hall. Starring James Ryan, Michael Mayer, Anneline Kriel, Jon Ramsbottom, Ken Gampu, Norman Robinson, Marloe Scott Wilson, Bill Flynn, Stan Schmidt, Michelle Feher. (PG)
Sorta-sequel to "Kill or Be Killed" has slightly better production values (less intolerable, that is), slightly less insane plot (tater juice mind control, certain, but not a unmarried Hitler fantasy to be establish), and an incredible tagline ("He'southward not one of the all-time. He is the best!"). Despite not having a lovable dwarf henchman similar the offset production--Chico, yous are missed--this outing makes do with a main baddie (Mayer) who wears a false bristles and puts up with a constant string of pet names given to him by his correct hand (wo)man, a Pink cosplayer chosen Minerva (Wilson). Ryan again plays a guy named Steve (Steve Chase, to be exact, though he was previously Steve Chase), gets involved in a bunch of amateurish martial arts fights, has a dear interest (Kriel) just makes no effort to really exhibit romantic interest, eventually wins the day (spoiler alert?). Entirely awful, but amusingly so, at least. One of Roger Ebert'due south guilty pleasure movies.
17/100
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The most esteemed judges in martial arts are fat white men?
That kicking was no where well-nigh the target. Horrible camera bending.
Imported from what seems to be an island is not impressive. It'south an isle, everything is imported.
This guy looks similar Chachi.
"Fuel from potatoes" sounds hilarious.
Mind command irish potato extract! Diabolical! I quit! vs I fired you! stupid argument. Take the firing! You'll get severance.
Inexpensive mud hug gag.
Sweeping his van hovel.
That was the slowest back-hand chop of all fourth dimension.
Needless pushing a woman aside. Real overnice.
Carrot Summit's Southern aunt.
That helicopter looks like a go-cart.
At that place it is. The whole reason I heard about this film a character named Hot Dog.
You know Kandy is going to sneak forth.
How observant. She was sitting in that location all along.
I'd love to meet a spin-off... Hot Dog and The Fly.
Supervised recreational activity... alternating days... is this gym class? Which manner to the bar (fight)? What bar keeps all those lit candles? That don't mix with drunk fools.
This guy is his horrible. A few sweet lines and a lick on her shoulder and she's all over y'all. Yick.
Off potatoes forever! Don't say it Hot Domestic dog! That ways no more fries!! And then far I haven't seen anyone killed let lone killed a second time.
The dreaded #iv outhouse.
Action floor roll.
Marduk has a horrible fake beard.
A sudden change of groundwork during a conversation.
I expected Hot Dog to exist more of a show off.
A kick-upwards instead of a kip-upwardly.
No wasted movement huh? He just did multiple meaningless flips.
Agree the stem or you'll warm the wine! Ability Blue T-Shirt Gang set on!!!!!
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Everyone Kung Fu Fights in New Babylonia
Main PLAN: eliminate complimentary volition and create a new kung fu race! The follow-upwardly to "Kill or Be Killed" of the previous year again follows the blueprint of the famous "Enter the Dragon" motion picture, meaning a small group of aristocracy fighters enters the private kingdom of a slightly-insane master villain, who has his ain individual army and seems preoccupied with the aboriginal city of Babylon. This one'southward a niggling more tongue-in-cheek than "Kill or Exist Killed" but is also slightly more than entertaining, as a result. This features the return of Steve Hunt (the lithe, acrobatic Ryan), South Africa'south answer to Bruce Lee, as the best martial arts combatant in the globe (he'south given some award at the start of the film). In the previous motion-picture show, Chase was just caught up in the weird plans of the villain, whereas here, he's on assignment every bit a special agent (but, for a lot of money, not a bacon). Chase is approached for a special mission, a la a kung fu version of the James Bond style, and then gathers a quartet of specialized fighters, all of whom he knows from some previous missions. A female fighter besides tags along, claiming to be the daughter of the scientist who is held captive by the villain. Then what we accept here, too the "Enter the Dragon" and Bond parallel, is another "Magnificent Vii" or "Muddied Dozen" kung fu take-off, admitting with but half-a-dozen special fighters.
Much of the entertainment stems from the odd group that Hunt puts together. One guy is known as 'The Wing' (a existent-life martial arts primary, apparently) who, also the obvious abilities, is actually able to levitate (unless it'southward some trick - Hunt copies him at one point). Another simply seems like overweight comic relief, but can throw a dial when he has to. Then in that location's Gorilla, played by Gampu, whom I remember from way dorsum to the incredible "The Naked Prey" from the mid-sixties. Information technology's non a bad cast for this type of picture. Even more comedy is provided, however, past the villain, which does go a flake overboard. His paramour or moll, a severely-fake redhead, calls him a bunch of pet names, like 'popsickle,' and he keeps telling her to stop information technology, to no avail. This does not print or awe the audition. Plotwise, it's out of a silly comic book: the villain plans to use a drug which enslaves the populace to his will - and he actually sounds similar he's doing the world a favor when he explains this. As the heroic grouping approaches his stronghold, he sends groups of fighters against them which get apace pulverized. Then the heroes infiltrate his domain. At one betoken, they're under suspicion by the guards and talk to each other about their plan to intermission gratis within the obvious hearing distance of the armed guards! It culminates in the standard arena-type fights - guess who prevail? Yes, it's dumb, inconsequential, but kind of fun. Heroes:half-dozen Villain:four Femme Fatales:five Henchmen:6 Fights:7 Stunts/Chases:5 Gadgets:ii Auto:iii Locations:5 Pace:6 overall:five
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A martial arts hitting, that warrants viewing for activity fans, that kicks left, right, and center
For all you lot martial arts fans out in that location, if you lot haven't vide'd this 1, put information technology on your list. James Ryan, a martial arts star in the eighties, came and went, his real but other main stream picture being Kill Or Exist Killed, which had much lesser action. Actually, at the finish of the preview of the latter, underneath it'due south title, reads: The greatest martial film ever fabricated. Accented bologne. The action in this, comes thick and fast, we're literally thrown into it, at the beginning. This one volition surprise you. Information technology has a good story too. The likable Ryan plays a guy called Steve Hunt, who rounds up a band of his old and deadly acquaintances, some existent wild characters. Sounds like Kill Squad right, or may'be Sidaris'southward smart '79' hit, Vii. Not quite. A cute immature girl (Kriel-Reason To Die) implores Chase and his selected few to snatch her father from a camp, where he has been brainwashed into performing experiments on a legion of other prisoners, who become programmed to impale. So Ryan and his boys have got their work, cutting out for them. Love information technology. Meanwhile as the viewer, just indulge in huge chunks of action, but wait, we've got ane hell of femme fatale with white spiked hair who'south a hoot, thanks to some skilful punchy, dialogue, in a script you lot don't expect to be this proficient. Yous'll love the nickname she'll gives her master, to his utter loathing. Our hunky Ryan was something of a fascination to me, in a film hither that stands alone. He was soon forgotten, but 1 wonders any happened to him.
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Racist, Sexist, Bad Acting, and Horrible Cast
Worthless piece of trash.
Bad cinematography coupled with bad interim at its worst. Salve your precious time. Spend it on some other piece of garbage. Trust me this as bad equally information technology gets.
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DUDE, Like, THIS BE SOME BAD POTATO JUICE, Human!
I tin can't believe I watched this entire movie, but I just couldn't stop! The master bad guy has a terrible fake beard, who has kidnapped a doctor that created a chemical from potatoes (?!) that hypnotizes people to be slaves. There's a chick with burn-engine red dyed hair. The plot seems to accept been written by a three-year-old. The 'funny' parts are just plain painful. Guys float somehow by using martial arts techniques. This reminded me of an A-Squad episode on stupid pills. Although, this picture was fabricated by morons, it was entertaining. And so what does that make me? Watch out for the evil white potato!
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Dearest this picture show and the moves they make
Over-all this is one of my all time favorite karate films of all times. The story is adept and the moves are even better. Worth the watch. Cheers Steve, Gorilla, Gypsy, The Wing and Hotdog. You lot made this sentinel worth while.
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Producer Montoro Finally Made A Watchable Film!
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Before watching Kill And Kill Over again, the sequel to Impale Or Be Killed (which I haven't seen), I'd suffered through three productions by Edward Montoro: Day Of The Animals, Grizzly, and Mutant. Each film left me with that unpleasant feeling in the pit of my stomach that started cropping upwardly sometime in my belatedly twenties: the knowledge that I'chiliad definitely going to die one solar day, that feeling that life is brusque, and the suspicion that – partially considering of movies similar the three aforementioned – I've all but wasted my allotted bridge hitherto.
So it's non hard to imagine my mindset when Kill And Kill Again'south opening credits rolled, and there was Montoro's name plastered across the screen. I'd already paid skilful money for the thing, which represents work and arguably falls into that time-wasted category. And then again, if I watched what I was sure would exist an atrocious film, that would be another couple hours of my inevitable race to the grave spent on yet some other horrendous Montoro picture show. Do I cutting my losses now, or truly shame myself past letting Montoro fool me a fourth time? Plain I chose to watch it. Buried beneath my existential nihilism is, in fact, an optimist. My findings? You lot heard it here first: Kill And Kill Once again is kung-fu gold.
Well, OK, silver. But for Monotoro information technology might as well be platinum.
It's obvious he missed his calling: later on watching three of the worst horrors ever shot on moving picture, I watched Impale And Kill Again, an eighties kung-fu picture show, and realized Montoro as a producer missed his calling. Don't get me wrong, 'derivative' still (as always) applies, and I can't approximate whether Montoro'due south was intentionally satirical – maybe my modernistic sensibilities mistook an actually genuine effort at a serious kung-fu motion picture for a natural language-in-cheek romp – but peradventure, just mayhap, Montoro (without a miraculous accident) actually turned out exactly the sort of film he wanted to brand, and it was actually adept.
James Ryan stars every bit Steve Chase, a world-renowned martial artist who (presumably in the first film) is no stranger to getting dragged into contests of a nature that's decidedly more lethal than your boilerplate muzzle-friction match. Model/beauty-queen Anneline Kriel plays Kandy Kane – I swear this isn't a peel-movie – who drags Chase on a quest to save her father, who's been abducted by the evil genius Marduk. Together they assemble an A-Team way crew of the usual typecast-oddballs and token-whatever's, who gear up out to karate-chop and roundhouse-kick their way to Dr. Kane.
Marduk – who's as comically villainous as you'd look with a comic-book name like that – kidnapped Dr. Kane to work on his latest mastermind scheme for earth domination. He'southward cooked up a white potato-based obedience serum, and needs Dr. Kane to perfect it. Seriously, he's taking over the world with potatoes, and if that isn't intentional comedy I don't know what to call it. Marduk's got an unabridged campus total of brainwashed youths already on the drug, who he's raising as his personal karate army. In one case Marduk's plan ripens (heh, go it, because potatoes?) he'll enthrall the entire globe, assuming Chase, Kane and their sidekicks don't stop him.
Nothing about this movie, when viewed superficially, should accept been enjoyable. It'south got a white South African, James Ryan, all but parodying Bruce Lee (I could never figure out whether I was supposed to believe Ryan was actually Asian). The voice-interim sounds similar a racist's estimation of Native American mannerisms. Sexism is blatant, even for an eighties picture show, although I'll requite Montoro this: Kandy Kane is a far more than active heroine than any of his others female person leads. She'd critical to the plot, in fact, and gets in a few badass moments herself.
Kung-fu movies have a reputation for being cheesy and over the peak; it'southward an inverse relationship between the realism of the kung-fu, and the awesomeness of the movie, and Impale And Impale Once again wisely doesn't deviate. There'south an obvious flake of realism below the choreography, but their ultimate goal was amusement rather than believability. Information technology's got everything we've all come to await from these sorts of martial-arts movies: spinning kicks, backflipping as a valid means of daily transportation, parkour inspired wall-flips, and outright absurdism when it comes to how many (supposedly well-trained) combatants our heroes tin fend off and defeat all on their lonesome.
As a matter of fact, Kill And Impale Again broke new cinematic ground, which isn't something I thought I'd ever say almost a Montoro product. My jaw literally dropped a couple inches when I saw it. You lot'll call back the slow-mo spinning-bullet shots in The Matrix, I'chiliad certain; turns out KAKA was the very first case of that now iconic shot. Even more impressively, they accomplished it all without the modern technology The Matrix and other imitators relied on. A dolly, a photographic camera, some plexiglass and clever lighting were basically all they used for the setup.
Innovation? Montoro? My cadre beliefs are thoroughly shaken.
Kill And Impale Again is, slow-mo bullet sequence bated, zero new. It isn't plowing deep into fresh narrative territory; the minimal character development isn't masking any biting social commentary; the cinematography'south impressive, but it's an action movie, so I wait zippo less.
But it's fun. It's enjoyable. You can laugh at the over-the-top kung-fu (or karate, whatsoever it's supposed be). You can dig the eighties nostalgia which is ultimately the genre's hallmark. You can plough your encephalon off, kick back, and prepare to exist entertained with the comfortable noesis that Impale And Impale Over again won't require an iota of your upper-level cognitive part to fully enjoy what it has to offer.
And, like me, you can say you finally watched an enjoyable Montoro film.
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Lots of fun
When you sentry a kung fu movie, are you lot expecting an intelligent plot, fine acting, and high production values? I hope non, because this motion picture has a very SILLY plot, lame acting, and it was made for nigh $100. Only it'southward a lot of fun. The villain has a listen-command serum and a fake beard. Steve Chase assembles his squad, Seven Samurai-manner, to save the world. The rest of the movie is hilariously cheesy. I used to picket this flick on HBO in the center of the dark when I was a kid, around 1980. Information technology was on all the time. When I founjd it on sale on DVD, I took a chance (these things don't e'er age so well, ya know?). But it's still Slap-up. When it'due south deadly serious, I laugh, and when the characters crack a joke, it falls flat. KILL AND KILL Once again is the Plan 9 of martial arts movies. All humans must run across it at least in one case! Marduk commands it!
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Request the Question: What if Afrikaners had Made 'Enter the Dragon?'
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You all know the plot: An evil super-villain in some remote chemical compound prepares his army of karate soldiers to dominate the globe. The fate of the earth thus rests in the hands of our super-ninja hero, sent in by the Gov'meant with his team of sidekicks, who must defeat the super-villain'southward champions in a karate match in order to relieve flesh.
Starring James Ryan every bit Steve Hunt equally The White Bruce Lee, and marketed as a sequel to the seemingly unrelated "Kill or Be Killed" (1976), "Kill and Kill Once more" gives you just near everything you would expect from a cheesy 1980s karate showcase movie that doesn't star Chuck Norris.
Although fight scenes from the 70s and 80s, which oftentimes rely on traditional Shotokan karate, generally practice not age well, many of the activity sequences in this picture still seem competent. And James Ryan, who was non a martial artist before making these films, actually does an incredibly disarming job as a super-ninja.
Sure, you may wonder why the army of karate soldiers apparel in summertime camp t-shirts. Or why the super-villain keeps sending unarmed men to stop our protagonists. Y'all may even notice a super fuel made from potatoes that besides makes a mind control serum as a byproduct hard to swallow. Et cetera. Et cetera.
But it is all in expert fun. While considerably less serious than the vastly superior "Enter the Dragon," "Kill and Kill Again" provides a combination of eighty's activity and camp that is difficult to beat out. Movies similar "Kill and Kill Again" and "Gymkata" (1985) are swell throw-back flicks to enjoy on a weekend afternoon.
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Kill or Be Killed & Kill and Kill Again
I agree with others' reviews here, and similarly I too watched these movies back in the early-ish 80'south as a kid. These movies inspired a serious interest in the martial arts. My town only had a Tae Kwon exercise school, so, I made practise. (Thanx Chief Chung!!) Anyhow, yeah I agree with other reviews hither and but love how dated and nostalgic a feel you go while watching this /these movies. Everything from plot to setting and scenes screams low-budget. And I dearest it!
I finally tin find information technology online (here, thanks IMDB) but in the mid 2000's I found both these movies for sale on eBay and have these ii, (and only these two) vhs tapes. The only reason I nonetheless have a vcr anymore. Lol! Adept stuff!
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Wow, this is bad.
This moving picture is on the borderline of being then bad that information technology is near worth watching, if simply just to laugh at it. It attempts to exist a one-act with many one-liners that fall completely flat. The martial arts choreography is stiff and extremely staged looking. The story is just plain ridiculous. The star shows some potential given the right fabric, but there is very niggling of that for him to work with. A scattering of skillfully executed karate techniques are well-nigh the only matter this motion picture has going for information technology.
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I found the perfect abode for this movie
This has to be i of the worst movies ever put on celluloid. Yet, I have determined the perfect identify for information technology-- on Mystery Scientific discipline Theatre 3000. I am positive that Crow and the gang could do this film wonders.
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News about "Kill And Kill Again" and James Ryan..
Yeah Hullo "Kill Or exist Killed." - Sorry to only reply your posting now, but I've only recently become aware of all this 'stuff' on "Kill and Impale Again," on which I was the cinematographer and helped get the martial artists for the movie, since i knew them all.... You are right. A lot of people preferred the get-go pic also with James Ryan as Steve Chase in "Kill and Kill Again", only I must tell yous that the box-office figures tell a very different story...in fact, depending on how former you are, you might retrieve a moving-picture show made past Bo Derek's husband John Derek called "10" ...a 'tits and bums' vehicle to show off the many charms of his lovely wife that did very well at the box-function and was released the aforementioned year as "Kill and Kill Again'. Well, believe information technology or not, "Kill and Kill Once again" made more money than "10". Much more than money....I have the figures somewhere......Anyhow both these movies have gone into the memories and archives of "Chop Suie' or karate pot-boilers.....One of the many things I admire near James Ryan is that after these two big successes for him in the USA, he was offered many more roles like that and could of happily gone on making them ad nauseum, going for the money and fame. Just he declined....went dorsum to South Africa to become one of SA'south all-time male leads in theater and Idiot box /movie theater...a 'big up' for Steve Chase ........ tai krige sasc.
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