- The cringe factor of macho 80's ultraviolent martial arts silliness
+ The simple beauty of macho 80's ultraviolent martial arts silliness
- Same old plot structure: exposition; training montage (during which essential technique is taught to protagonist); introduction of sidekick, introduction of merciless villain; lengthy fighting montages; demise of sidekick/moment of doubt; a gory climax, villain is defeated at the last minute by aforementioned technique, villain spared.
+ Good old familiar plot structure, pulled of with aplomb. What else did you expect?
- Appalling acting. Appalling script.
+ Hilarious broken English of Chinese actors. Hilarious script: 'Very good... But brick not hit back!'
+ Surprisingly solid and free of plot holes for this era. See:
Commando
+ The funny capoeira-monkey man who inevitably gets his spine snapped
+ Always found Van Damme to be the most sympathetic of the beefcakes. And hawt.
+ Forest Whittaker's tabletop haircut
And at the final count Bloodsport gets a
+, woohoo