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Bloodsport (1988) - Drunk Monk - 01-20-2015
JCVD's first film. Wow, I forgot how horrible it was. The soundtrack is over the top with its late 80s synth riffs. The fight choreography is terrible. Half a dozen slo-mo helicopter kicks as the finale blows? srsly? The acting, well, I don't even have to go there, do I? Bolo is good at being psycho. I netflixed it because I just did an interview that referenced an old JCVD flick and I couldn't remember if it was this or Kickboxer (it was the latter). BTW, there are remake projects for both films. Worthy of note - it's an early role for Forrest Whitaker. Throughout the entire film, his lazy eye seems to be saying 'I'm so going to do better than this someday...'
I actually met Frank Dux, on whom this film was allegedly based. He's a controversial figure in the martial arts world because most have called B.S. on him. I met him at a Shaolin Kung Fu demo at the Warfield, the first U.S. tour of the troupe that consisted of my friends. He was the guest of a mutual KF sibling, mutual to CF & LCF, the Klingon who wasn't a trekkie and fancied himself a publisher. He was courting Dux as a potential new book source. Dux was an ugly dude, lanky with a homely face from any angle, a far cry from the borderlinegay beauty that JCVD was in his youth. That was weird, really weird. Maybe I hallucinated it.