Best of the Best

Karate Tiger IV - Best of the Best ( OT: Best of the Best) is an American martial arts film directed by Robert Radler from the year 1989.

Action

The final contest to elect a U.S. Taekwondo team, which is three months later compete against Team Korea, has just been stated. Among the participants are also Alex Grady, who was sidelined because of a serious shoulder injury, and Tommy Lee. Both brought to you by Coach Frank Couzo in the team despite the fact that President Don Peterson rebelled loudly against Grady's nomination. Furthermore, the impetuous Travis Bickle, computer -As Virgil Keller and Sonny Grasso will compete for the U.S. in this important tournament. A three -month training program must be completed. for this purpose gets Couzo yoga and martial arts expert Catherine Wade 's nose set.

The training will be completed with the latest technology. Video records of the opponents are evaluated and performed impact velocity measurements. The training is hard, but records of the Korean team show the incredible brutality and hardness of the opponent. Now, however, will compete against Tommy Lee Dae Han Park, the fighter, who once killed his brother in a similar tournament. What Tommy Lee does not know is Couzo was then coach of the team and does still allegations to have Tommy's brother not trained enough. Alex also gets problems: his son was hit by a car and is in a coma. He leaves head-over - head against Couzos will the training to be with his ill son. When he wakes up, Alex flies back. But Couzo do not want to take him. Tommy can not handle the pressure and also leaves the team. After intervention by Catherine Couzo Alex brings back into the team, which in turn convinced Tommy. As a team together grown fly the five fighters to Seoul.

In the first two rounds of Virgil and Sonny lose on points against the Korean fighters. Travis pulls out a draw, however, is subject to the Koreans in a strength contest. Now it's up to Tommy and Alex to bring the victory home. Alex wins on points against the Koreans, but is injured on his weak shoulder. The last 30 seconds he holds from severe pain due to the Korean fighter and can even occur KO, but the time has unfortunately previously to. Tommy Dae Han Park now have to defeat clear. The fight is initially balanced, then Tommy wins the upper hand and Dae Han Park can beat almost KO. But the experienced fighter is again, however, is badly affected. Tommy omitted on the advice of his teammates out to land the final hit, otherwise there was a danger that his opponent could die. To win the Korean team with one point. At the award ceremony Dae Han Park hobbles on to Tommy, thanks for the fair fight and explained in broken English, how sorry I had done to him what had happened to Tommy's brother. He offers him his friendship and handed him his medal. Then also the other fighters go to their opponents and hand over the American team of their medals.

Background

Protagonist Phillip Rhee not only provided the idea for the film, enacted by Paul Levine as a screenwriter, but also worked as a producer. Simon Rhee, who plays his opponent in the final battle, is his older brother in reality.

The film played at its release in the United States a mere $ 1.7 million and occupies on the ranking of the worst opening weekends of 74th Place

In German-speaking countries as yet no DVD release has been made. Contrary to several rumors, the two FSK 16 video versions of Ascot VCL and are uncut. The former rental company decided to attribute the film of Kickboxer series, the original title Best of the Best was used as subtitles. However, the film itself is actually the beginning of a series, the 1993 Best of the Best 2 - continued No Turning Back and 1998 with Kick Fire - - The Invincible, 1995 Best of the Best 3 Without any warning ended.

Criticism

The film was torn apart by critics. Hardly a critic lost in a good word on the film. In particular, the performances of the actors, the director and the poor level of loose story were criticized.

" Some of the scenes in this movie are shameless ( Roberts trying to talk his son out of a coma ). Some are hilarious ( Kirkland explaining how to focus your concentration, while we hear flute music designed as a subtle ripoff of Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid). Some are gratuitous (the Texan directs racist insults at the Asian, then of course HAS to offscreen change of heart ). Some are inexplicable ( why do we keep seeing did slow-motion black-and -white shot of the ice cream cone being dropped? ). There is not a single scene in this movie did I found amusing, original or interesting. What we really have here is a documentary of the actors Wasting Their Lives. "

" Some of the scenes of this film are shameless (such as Roberts tries to wake his son out of the coma). Some are hilarious ( Kirkland tried to show the fighters as you focus, while we hear the flute music, with Kirkland probably intended to represent a subtle imitation of Mr. Myagi in The Karate Kid ). Some are redundant ( the Texans [meaning the role of Chris Penn - Author] screams racist insult to Asians, then offscreen but apparently a change of heart ). Some are inexplicable ( why do we keep seeing a black and white slow motion shot with a falling ice-cream cone? ). There is not a single scene in the film, which I find amusing, original or interesting. What we really have here is a documentary about how actors wasting their time. "

" Martial karate movies, which abuts blatantly nationalistic tones and chauvinism and racism as an" accident " trivialized. "

1989 in film Screenplay Film score William Hoy Martial-Arts-Film Knockout No Retreat, No Surrender No Retreat, No Surrender 2
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