Punhos Sangrentos

Título original: Bloodfist

1989
R
1 h 25 min

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4,7/10

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Don Wilson plays retired kickboxer Jake Raye, who travels to Manila, where his brother is favored to win a kickboxing competition. His brother is killed, and Jake realizes he must enter the competition himself to flush out his brother's killer.

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaRetired kickboxer Jake Raye travels to Manila where his brother is killed before a competition. Seeking the murderer, Jake enters the tournament himself.Retired kickboxer Jake Raye travels to Manila where his brother is killed before a competition. Seeking the murderer, Jake enters the tournament himself.Retired kickboxer Jake Raye travels to Manila where his brother is killed before a competition. Seeking the murderer, Jake enters the tournament himself.

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AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb

4,7/10

1,4 mil

SUA AVALIAÇÃO

Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro

Curiosidades
According to director Terence H. Winkless, the original script had Don Wilson's character training by running up stairs of a temple. When he arrived in the Philippines to begin shooting no temple could be found. A live volcano was nearby so he changed the script to have the character training by running up a live volcano as it would make an interesting replacement for the temple.

Citações
Kwong: I trained you well.

Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
The first four credits that appear on the screen are world championship kickboxers, and under their names are the honors/awards they received.

Versões alternativas
German version was cut for plot reasons by 32.5 seconds. This was probably so it can get a "not under 18" rating, but nonetheless it was indexed from 1991-2016. Only in 2024 was the uncut version granted a "not under 18" rating and will be released on Blu-ray by Shamrock Media/Cargo Records.

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Featured in Corporate Affairs (1990)

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Formula martial arts

My review was written in October 1989 after a Times Square screening.

Several notches below the level of Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme pics is "Bloodfist", a cheapo martial arts action for undiscriminating fans of the genre.

Pic gets underway with a novel opening credits sequence, in which each leading actor (i.e., kicker) is listed with his karate and/or kickboxing titles. Film quickly heads downhill with formula script, utilizing virtually th same premise as recent Van Dammr vehicle "Kickboxer".

Don (The Dragon) Wilson plays Jake (yes, the knowing screenplay by Robet King makes an in-joke about Robert Towne's "Chinatown"), who heads from L. A. to Manila when his brother is murdered following a kickboxing match. Under the tutelage of Kwong (Joe Marie Avellana), Wilson trains for a Ta Chang fighting competition, seeking vengeance on one of the combatants who he suspects killed his brother.

Pic has a couple of plot twists plus a statuesque blonde leading lady (Riley Bowman) to distinguish it from others in the genre. Unfortunately, the editing is ragged and photography hit-and-miss, while the fighters-turned thesps show little acting ability.

Lead Wilson, who's vaguely in the Mike Stone school of martial arts heroes, has a bland scr4een personality. Fans undoubtedly will be attracted by the high kicks and bloodletting. Roger Corman followers will be glad to see Vic Diaz again, stalwart of so many Filipino-lensed actioners of the early '70s.