Kickboxer | Hollywood | The 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle “Kickboxer” is a classic of its kind: a dopey underdog sports melodrama that takes advantage of its stripped-down plot to load up on scenes of people beating the tar out of each other.
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The quasi-remake “Kickboxer: Vengeance” tries its best to do the same, but without a Van Damme-level star at the center, the results are pretty bloodless. The big man actually does appear in “Kickboxer: Vengeance” something he didn’t do in any of the original’s four sequels.
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Van Damme plays an aged Muay Thai master named Durand, who trains the hero to fight over the course of a few old-school standoffs and montages. Alain Moussi takes over Van Damme’s old role of Kurt Sloane, an assistant to his mixed martial arts champion brother Eric (Darren Shahlavi). Kurt’s forced into the ring when Eric dies at the hands of Tong Po, played by pro fighter
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As with the first film, “Kickboxer: Vengeance” keeps its story pared down. As he prepares to avenge
