Kickboxer: Vengeance
Short description
Kurt Sloane has spent his life in the shadow of his older brother Eric, a champion martial artist from a well-known fighting family in Venice, California. When Eric accepts a lucrative offer to face the feared Muay Thai titleholder Tong Po in Thailand, Kurt's warnings go unheeded, and the bout ends with Eric killed in the ring. Determined to avenge him, Kurt seeks out Durand, his brother's former mentor, and submits to a punishing course of Muay Thai training for a fight against Tong Po.
Kickboxer: Vengeance is a 2016 American action drama directed by John Stockwell, his tenth feature following films including Blue Crush, Into the Blue, In the Blood and Kid Cannabis. The screenplay is by Dimitri Logothetis and Jim McGrath, with Logothetis also producing. Alain Moussi plays Kurt, Dave Bautista is Tong Po, Sara Malakul Lane is Liu, and Jean-Claude Van Damme appears as Master Durand. Darren Shahlavi plays Eric, and mixed martial artist Georges St-Pierre appears as Kavi. Produced for about 10 million dollars, the film runs 90 minutes.
Audience response has been muted: on IMDb it holds 4.9/10 from roughly 13,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.1/10 from more than 450 votes. A critics' rating of 4.8/10 from 34 reviews places professional opinion in much the same range as the general audience.
What's left behind the scenes
- Scott Adkins declined to play the role of the protagonist's brother, as the role was too small for him.
- Tony Jaa was considered for the role of Jian Chau, originally played by Dennis Chan in the original film, but the actor declined the offer.
- The film is dedicated to the memory of Darren Shahlavi, who died during filming and played the role of the protagonist's brother.
- The prisoner who says, "Hey, have you forgotten about me?" is played by Michel Qissi, who played Tonga Po in the original "Kickboxer" from 1989.
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