Bloodsport(Blu-ray) (FSK 18)

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In his youth, American Frank Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) was taught the art of ninjutsu by Japanese martial arts master Senzo Tanaka. It builds on a series of modest successes over the preceding years in the films Universal Soldier and Hard Target. But Janice quickly finds another way of entry, going "undercover" posing as a date to a wealthy patron. new 2160p/HDR transfer, Atmos and theatrical audio tracks, exclusive new extras, and a remastered Blu-ray.

Bloodsport approximates the film's original theatrical aspect ratio by filling the entire 16:9 enhanced screen. A heartbroken Tanaka, having already lost his first family in Hiroshima, chooses to stop all training, believing his family is ended. As Jackson and Dux present their invitations, the officials stop and are very dubious of Dux, because his invitation lists him as being part of the Tanaka Clan. He takes control following the advice he tried to give Jackson, focusing on repeated punches and kicks to Chong Li's stomach and watching for kicks from Chong Li's right leg.We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. It is very much in the vein of other 90s action movies, and the intended levels of operatic bombast will have the appropriate house-shaking/neighbor-waking effect with nary a hint of distortion if played anywhere near reference volume level. Whisper to scream dynamics and frequent directional effects are rendered with precision and accuracy. There is a certain unavoidable hint of homoeroticism in any dramatized activity involving slow motion footage of men with oiled torsos tousling, but when, in their big romantic scene, the camera spends more time gratuitously lingering over Van Damme's body than Ayres' and the denouement includes a scene of Frank and Ray declaring their mutual love more than Frank and Janice ever do, it seems to cross a line from gay subtext to "Enola Gay". As the Kumite prepares for the first fight, Victor reminds Dux and Jackson that the contests are full-contact, and there are three ways to win-- knock the opponent out, knock them off the platform, or force the opponent to shout the word "Matte," which is a cry of surrender similar to saying 'Uncle.

In Bloodsport, Jean-Claude Van Damme plays Frank Dux, a US Army Captain who plans on using his furlough to fight in an underground full-contact martial arts tournament in Hong Kong known as The Kumite.Based on the cinematographic style of Director Peter Hyams, my guess is that this is consistent with his intended look.

matrix surround stereo track that betrays its "80s low-budget" origins even more so than the visual appearance. While in Hong Kong, Dux befriends a rowdy American fighter named Ray Jackson (Gibb) and a reporter named Janice Kent (Ayres). Frank's attempts to advance to the championship are further complicated by the efforts of Helmer (Burton) and Rawlins (Whitaker), a pair of military agents representing his superiors who did not sanction his participation in the Kumite and want to bring him into custody. When he finds out Tanaka is dying, Dux travels to Hong Kong in his honor to participate in the Kumite – a secret full-contact competition in which fighters from all over the world put their lives on the line. Squaring him off against martial artist/body-builder Bolo Yeung for the film's climax was a stroke of genius because not only was it guaranteed to resonate with viewers who would remember Yueng's appearance in Bruce Lee's, Enter the Dragon, but it would be hard to imagine any red-blooded fan of action cinema not wanting to see two such behemoths face-off.Not that I was expecting 'Avatar'-like levels of controlled video precision, but what I did want was a noticeable upgrade from the grainy VHS and DVD releases that preceded it.