Kurt Thomas,
Tetchie Agbayani,
Richard Norton,
Edward Bell,
John Gilbert Barrett
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In a standard no-plotter, this is a martial arts showcase for gymnast Kurt Thomas as Jonathan Cabot, the front line man sent out to secure a military foothold in an unfriendly, unnamed country in East... read more
Directed by: Robert Clouse
DVD Release Date: June 25, 1991
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July 3, 2011The thrill of gymnastics! The kill of Karate!
From the director of Enter the Dragon, comes a craptacular shitfest. -
May 10, 2009Ask me what is the absolute worst movie I've ever seen. Go ahead. Ask me...
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May 5, 2008Just thinking about the radness of this film will make your head burst into pieces.
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September 27, 2008This crapfest makes Road House look like Die Hard. Dumb from beginning to end. Not that I was expecting it to be all that good, but I assumed it would be so bad it was good. It wasn't. It was just so bad.
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October 27, 2008Strangely, I had seen this on TV as a kid and didn't remember it- I had only seen the scene in the crazy town where the guy cut his own arm off and it terrified the grapes out of me. Funny to have closure in my life on such a psychologically scarring event... and to realize what ... read more
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June 2, 2008This movie is a cheese fest classic. It doesn't get any better than taking gymnastics and karate and mixing the two into ass kicking entertainment. From the same guy that gave you Enter the Dragon and the great Black Belt Jones.
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November 1, 2007Tough movie to review. It's not, you know, "good", but it is thoroughly enjoyable '80's cheese. The sequence set in the walled off city full of the country's insane people is genuinely great [until he finds the pummel horse] and has a stronger idea than almost any movie Hollywo... read more
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July 12, 2007There is only one word to describe the emotion, the power, the endeavor to move the masses to a some sort of recalcitrant awakening...SCRUMTRILESCENSE....
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May 13, 2007In order to save his father, Kurt must unite the ways of Eastern Karate and Western gymnastics to form a new style of martial arts: Gymkata! Yes, what can go wrong from there? So bad, you have to see it.
Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
February 14, 2007
David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
...one of the most absurd and flat-out silly actioners to emerge out of the 1980s... Full Review
October 15, 2002
Rob Vaux, Flipside Movie Emporium
It's a little known fact that the Third World bases most of its civic infrastructure on parallel bars and pommel horses.
July 25, 2002
Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
Hey, you got your gymnastics in my karate! No, YOU got your karate in my ... oh never mind. You just won't find a movie much stupider than this one.
January 13, 2004
Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
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August 22, 2003
Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal
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March 11, 2003
Robert Roten, Laramie Movie Scope
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October 1, 2002
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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