MovieChat Forums > Kickboxer: Vengeance (2016) Discussion > WAY more entertaining than the original....

WAY more entertaining than the original. Don't understand the hate.

posted 8 years ago by Eiriksterminator
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Though I think Van Damme is all right (and he can definitely kick some serious ass), and I think he was cool in this movie, I watched the original, and I found it boring. It had better and more drama, plot, and acting than this new one, but it had little actual fighting, and what was there was really lame. This one has real, great action and fighting, and lots of it. I loved it. All these people who say this movie is so bad, yet like the old one...I can only assume they're either completely blind when it comes to martial arts (this one guy saying the choreography looks like something kids made on youtube, lol, are you serious? Get your eyes checked dude), or they're not watching this movie for the fighting or action at all, in which case...I have to ask why they're even watching the movie to begin with...You watch a movie like this for the fighting, why else would you watch it?

[–] comerb 8 years ago

You should be ashamed for having such awful taste

[–] Eiriksterminator 8 years ago

I'm not even a microgram ashamed, and my taste is just fine.

[–] BrickNash 8 years ago

The action was crap. It was all quick cut editing at high frame rates and I never felt any impact of the moves nor could I really see what was going on.

It's a safety technique used in film when the actual choreography is rubbish or the actors aren't good at screen fighting.

Combine that with no real motivation, back story or character development and it's just a bad film cashing in on a famous and iconic name.

The color grading was quite nice and JCVD was good (bar the hat) but that's all the good I can say about it.

[–] Eiriksterminator 8 years ago

I said to please stop posting in this topic...You just made me have to read another email, after getting yet another annoying notification...Why IMDB doesn't allow people to easily close topics they've made, like everywhere else, I'll never understand...

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

The banana tree from the first movie had more charisma on the screen than Moussi.