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Undisputed III: Redemption
Film
FilmR1989
Kickboxer
Directed by Mark DiSalle, David Worth
If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong Po. Tong not only defeats Eric, he paralyzes him for life. Crazed with anger, Kurt vows revenge. From TMDB
135 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 20, 2026 · last updated Oct 21, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 21 | 7 | 94 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Kickboxer is a 1989 action thriller film, directed by Mark DiSalle and David Worth, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio and Dennis Chan Kwok-San.
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neutral · AI labelView post →1) The movie Trump loves is Bloodsport, not Kickboxer. 2) It's not a rumor, a reporter from the New Yorker witnessed Trump watching it in 1997. 3) He doesn't have an edited version of the movie, he just made his son Eric fast-forward the VHS tape through the parts that didn't have fighting.
neutral · AI labelView post →Havent been able to actually draw for more than a month, its just.. bad. So ive been concentrating on research and writing. And any attempt to draw or doodle them looks and feels awful. So I tried painting, usually works. Ref was a phone photo I took of a random screenshot of the Kickboxer movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Action movie date night turns weird when Makoto and Ren find a Girls Gone Wild-style DVD starring Sae, Tae, and Kawakami. Also Kickboxer Robocop is a real movie. I didn't make that bit up. The scars are real. www.hentai-foundry.com/stories/user... archiveofourown.org/works/92959596
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie, Kickboxer (1989)!
neutral · AI labelView post →Feels like this is getting slept on so a heads up that Lionsgate dropped a 3 disc KICKBOXER 4K/BD set today that features two cuts of the film and a bunch of new and archival extras. Frustratingly appears to be an Amazon exclusive (making my first preorder there in years) and is limited.
neutral · AI labelView post →True, PRAYER OF THE ROLLERBOYS is about Corey Haim rollerblading. But it's from the director of KICKBOXER 3 and the writer of POINT BREAK and it is unfortunately pretty correct about a future of white nationalist personality cults.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Kickboxer: Muay Thai is brutal and they used to dip their wraps in glass! GRRRR! Savage!! Reality of Muay Thai: Gotta start each match off doing our special Muay Thai dances.
neutral · AI labelView post →THIS SATURDAY join us over at twitch.tv/joepreal to run some pre-Combo Breaker sets and hang out. Then over at twitch.tv/dankpasta2099 we'll be showing Dark Angel, Psycho Kickboxer: Dark Angel, and the most baffling movie to ever star Frank Stallone. Join our Discord at sawcon.me
neutral · AI labelView post →Grew up on Kickboxer 3, Tango & Cash, Lionheart, T2, not your average kid's movie list. What’s yours? ⬇️
neutral · AI labelView post →You can't get hold of it ANYWHERE, but it's up on Youtube. If you like a good-bad movie, please enjoy the untold pleasures found within "Fatal Deviation". It's "Kickboxer" meets "Father Ted". It's NOT a comedy. 😆 #movies #mma #90s #action #kungfu #martialarts www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPne...
neutral · AI labelView post →Kickboxer is my all time JCVD movie for me & also feature legendary scene that made me a fan of his.
positive · AI labelView post →I haven't even started on his 90's Kickboxer flicks. And yes, ROBO-KICKBOXER (aka RINGS UNTOUCHABLE) is a real film, and on YouTube.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think the absolute dumbest movie I enjoy is Kickboxer, but I'll have to think about my favorite less dumb one
neutral · AI labelView post →the fight in Kickboxer where JCVD's brother gets his shit rocked in might be the funniest thing put to film
positive · AI labelView post →REFLECTION ON A DEAD DIAMOND: The first film I’ve seen by these filmmakers. Very frenetic and evocative. Like a James Bond / Diabolik existential trip. Filmmakers said their diamond visuals were inspired by JCVD’s glass-rolled gloves in KICKBOXER! #FantasticFest
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Kickboxer: Vengeance. Loved this movie so much I ordered the Blu Ray and thought I'd give it a watch! This movie rules so much.
positive · AI labelView post →When I watch a movie I should document whether or not it's gay. Kickboxer 2 is gay.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kickboxer 4 is arguably the best example of this, because while the tournament is essentially the B-plot of the film, Pyun still gives us the fucking tournament, lol
neutral · AI labelView post →The director here did a few Kickboxer sequels, a recent Nic Cage movie JIU-JITSU, and a movie I’ve been circling for #CultShelf : his first directorial effort, PRETTY SMART. #Riffotronic
neutral · AI labelView post →Director Albert Pyun's first-ever film, before going on to make such classics as "Kickboxer 4: More Kickboxer, More Problems." #FrightClub #TheSwordAndTheSorcerer
neutral · AI labelView post →TONITE!!! join us over at twitch.tv/joepreal to run some pre-Combo Breaker sets and hang out. Then over at twitch.tv/dankpasta2099 we'll be showing Dark Angel, Psycho Kickboxer: Dark Angel, and the most baffling movie to ever star Frank Stallone. Join our Discord at sawcon.me
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m on a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie marathon and currently watching Kickboxer. He’s so gorgeous but what really sets him apart from all the action movie actors of the 80s is that he wasn’t afraid to queen out a little
positive · AI labelView post →This movie is called Robo-Kickboxer - Power of Justice. This is the 1st out of 2 scenes where the Robo-Kickboxer appears and the rest of the movie is about a Filipino guy trying to escape from jail. The Robo-Kickboxer appears again in the last 3 minutes of the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming in December in the UK on #4K/Blu-ray dual format #SteelBook from @88films.bsky.social: #DoubleImpact (1991)! After Jean-Claude Van Damme’s breakout film Bloodsport (1988) which was quickly followed by popular hits like Cyborg (1989) and Kickboxer (1989),
neutral · AI labelView post →Giving my computer viruses no one has seen since 1998 just to try and watch a movie called Lingerie Kickboxer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Kickboxer 2. Man, there was a lot of kicking in this movie. #film
neutral · AI labelView post →Kickboxer with van damme is another great example of a movie like this. JCVD's brother gets paralyzed, his girlfriend gets raped, his dog gets killed, but in the end he wins a kickboxing fight against the guy that did all those things.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just found out an alternate title for this movie is... *Kickboxer 2025*. So I guess something went right for us at the housewarming party. 
neutral · AI labelView post →#Rewatched Kickboxer Vengeance. Really loved this first time round, bought the Blu, and still in love with this movie. An even better remake of the original, with JCVD now taking the mentor role and beating some sense into student Alian Moussi here.
positive · AI labelView post →#SportsMovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 7: Movie featuring a Combat Sport Kickboxer (1989) youtu.be/H6Yxw4gxfpI?...
neutral · AI labelView post →What if the series ends like the beginning of a zombie movie only he wakes up in the empty hospital and everyone outside has become a kickboxer. Cut to end title card: KICKBOXER EVERLASTING.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sorry to tell you this, but that’s actually the film Kickboxer #HATM LOL
neutral · AI labelView post →Why use boxing gloves? Remember the movie "Kickboxer" where they dip their cloth bound hands in glue and then cover them in glass? I won't be satisfied until they each emulate that scene.
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry for being THAT GUY but the Van Damme movie with the resin and broken glass was Kickboxer. Sorry.
neutral · AI labelView post →KICKBOXER (1989) bc it's the best KICKBOXER movie. BLOOD HEAT (2002) bc it's the film that lit my fuse as a collector. MIRACLES (1989) bc it's Jackie Chan's best work. THE CITY OF VIOLENCE (2006) bc it has all the spin-kicks. AZUMI (2003) bc it gives RUROUNI KENSHIN (2012) a run for its money.
positive · AI labelView post →Another great packaging job by Lionsgate. Kickboxer 4K steelbook with a lenticular cover that makes it look like Van Damme in kicking the movie title apart.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Fatal Deviation" is a low budget Irish action film, made in a tiny village with the locals as extras. The star is impressive martial-artists and (later on) successful Hollywood fight choreographer/stuntman James Bennett. It's "Kickboxer" meets "Father Ted" and it's AMAZING! #movies #bestofbad
neutral · AI labelView post →My #beyondfriday trailer is for another Mark Dacascos movie. "Kickboxer 5: The Redemption" is a solidly executed straight to video movie. Dacascos is a fine action lead and it gets a lot of milage out of it's South African setting. youtu.be/yKUnULNyh0Y?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Kickboxer (1989) tonight. Haven't seen it before, it was a pretty silly and dopey movie until they needed to further prove that the bad guys were bad guys. Still a fun movie overall though. Was expecting more kickboxing in Kickboxer, but instead it was a training montage with fun characters.
neutral · AI labelView post →I loved the Kickboxer movie as a kid, but it’s so disinterested in figuring out how to make a fun representation of muay thai. They seem to just think it’s Thai karate. Anyway…watch the Ong Bak movies, they’re a lot of fun and he saves an elephant in one.
negative · AI labelView post →3: Bea (Pokemon) Give her that one scene Van Damme had in the movie Kickboxer. ...look it up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dunno about the rest of you but I can't wait to fall asleep to Dimitri Logothetis's third Kickboxer movie. I could use the rest. 🥴
negative · AI labelView post →Fixing the JustWatchIt link, I just found out the movie has an alternate title: **Kickboxer 2025**! :D
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite thing about the third Kickboxer movie is that there's almost no kickboxing in it.
negative · AI labelView post →Kickboxer franchise is still going to?!? www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bloodsport and Kickboxer are the same movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Speedball vs Moxley is the wrestling equivalent of the movie Kickboxer in the best way possible #AEW
neutral · AI labelView post →37 years since KICKBOXER hit the screen, and damn we lost David Worth this week too. Had the opportunity to talk to him about the film several times and revisited the movie for a commentary with the late Mark Disalle for the Lionsgate release
neutral · AI labelView post →Is Kickboxer better than Bloodsport? #movie #clip #martialarts #podcast #podcastclips
neutral · AI labelView post →To give you a hint how prolific Pyun was, in the year this came out he also did the sequel to KICKBOXER and the weird fight to the death movie BLOODMATCH. #CultShelf
neutral · AI labelView post →Future #Podcast Idea: "Kickboxer: Vengeance" The sixth entry in the "Kickboxer" series also serves as a reboot, emulating the first movie quite a bit. One of those unique circumstances that makes it a prime candidate for future coverage! Director: John Stockwell Release: 2016 #moviesky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Kickboxer is not the best JCVD movie but it's also far from the worst, and the dance bit in context is *intentionally* hilarious and amazing and I love it. Real movie stars aren't afraid of unironically letting their characters be silly sometimes. youtu.be/XxQEMBfa8Qo?...
positive · AI labelView post →Like, I think they do, but I don't think they actually do...I tried pitching Bloodsport and Kickboxer to my prof, but he felt that bloodsports don't really factor in to sports movies. But like...I really do think that Rollerball is a sports movie. It's like Slap Shot, but like, with James Caan
neutral · AI labelView post →It was a nice day to minimize my time on social media and find some cool stuff at HPB as well as grabbing shabu-shabu lunch and KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE with an old friend. (Pictured are THE ISLAND Blu-ray, KICKBOXER 5-movie DVD set, the 1980 neo-noir UNION CITY, and THE WESTERNERS interview book)
neutral · AI labelView post →There was kicking. There was boxing. Promise made, promise kept. #Kickboxer #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Unexpectedly great double feature. The Boxer’s Omen is the EXACT same movie as Kickboxer only it takes this mid film b-movie Jodorowsky-esque spirit war side quest.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a new track l've been working on which l'm calling "Jean Claude Van DAYUMMM". We all love Jean Claude with Blood Sport obviously being his best work but does anyone remember that movie where he's doing the terrible dancing in the black leotard? Is it “Kickboxer”?
neutral · AI labelView post →i was going to save this for when/if you watched KICKBOXER but if we're talking famous splits
neutral · AI labelView post →Went to the movies to watch the new Naked Gun, great flick. Right now having a drink and a puff while watching Kickboxer
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