Breathing Fire

Rating:
Summary: Not Bad
Review: BREATHING FIRE tells the story of two young martial arts masters, Vietnamese Charlie (Johnathan Ke Quan) and Tony (Eddie Saavedra) who live together as brothers, but actually are not. In truth, Tony's father, Michael Moore (Jerry Trimble) killed Charlie's mother back in 'Nam, and his brother David (Ed Neil) gave Michael a nice guilt trip and forced him to to raise Charlie, then an infant, as his own son. That has been kept from Charlie long into his teen years.

In fact, Michael hides alot of things from his family. He and his chopsocky gang have robbed a bank of several million dollars. It was successful in part because the bank executive Peter Stern (Drake Diamond) is on their side. After locking up their stolen haul, the bad guys destroy the keys to their vault, but not before making impressions of them in a plastic pizza and dividing it equally to keep the honor amongst themselves.

After Stern decides to turn himself and the gang into the cops, the gang shows up and kills him and his wife, but thier daughter Annie (Laura Hamilton) escapes with her father's slice of the pizza and heads to David, Charlie, and Tony, who agree to protect her.

BREATHING FIRE, like so many other "kickboxing" martial arts movies, has a cast that is composed mostly of real-life martial arts champions. That's a wise choice to satisfy martial arts fans. Those in search of riveting, oscar-worthy performances, however, I would advise to steer clear. PKC Kickboxing Champ Jerry Trimble may have a well-molded physique and that overall look of pure evil, (He was also the bad guy in the kick-{ing}Jet Li 1989 Hong Kong movie, THE MASTER, which is now finally seeing a stateside release) but it doesn't much help him. Trimble is so lacking in any acting ability, his performance in BREATHING FIRE achieves somekind of benchmark : it may not be possible for another martial arts champion to give a worse performance.

However, who does watch these movies for their crummy dialouge and tacky acting? Not me, but we do watch for the martial arts action, which BREATHING FIRE has plenty of. It's so loaded with hyperactive karate mayhem, it more than makes up for the lousy acting. BREATHING FIRE certainly lives up to it's title.

Rating:
Summary: THE ULTIMATE KICKBOXING SHOWDOWN
Review: Charlie Moore is a Vietnamese teenage being raised in the lap of Southern California luxury togeather with his American brother, Tony. What they don't know is that father ex-GI Michael, is the ring leader in an armed bank robbery.

All hell breaks loose when the bank manager, a reluctant participant in the robbery, is murdered - a bloody event witnessed by his daughter, Annie. Now the focus of the gang is turned toward this lone eye-witness, and Charlie and Tony find themselves pitted against their own father and his gang in an effort to protect the young girl. The action culminates in an explosive final battle that gives new meaning to the word "KICKBOXING"!
Starring: Bolo Yeung . Jerry Trimble . Jonathan Ke Quan

Rating:
Summary: plastic pizza for real
Review: This film deserves 1 star or even 0 stars if there was such a rating. The storyline is corny, unbelievable and lacks common sense. The acting is terrible and the direction is worse. I suppose the martial arts is mediocre. But seriously, there are WAY better kickboxing movies out there.
Don't waste your money on this one. Go buy yourself a couple slices of a REAL pizza...

Rating:
Summary: Not Bad
Review: This movie was good. VERY GOOD! I am not saying it was a normal very good movie. IT WAS A TRULY VERY GOOD MOVIE!!

Rating:
Summary: Very Good
Review: This movie was good. VERY GOOD! I am not saying it was a normal very good movie. IT WAS A TRULY VERY GOOD MOVIE!!