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Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)

Kickboxer: Retaliation poster
Directed by
Dimitri Logothetis
Genre
martial arts film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
14
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 326 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

One year after his previous fight, MMA champion Kurt Sloane is kidnapped and taken to a Bangkok prison. There a crime boss forces him to fight a massive champion in underground bouts. Kurt seeks training from a blind master who is also imprisoned.

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What happens

Kickboxer: Retaliation is a 2018 American martial arts film directed and written by Dimitri Logothetis. It is the seventh in the Kickboxer film series and a direct sequel to the 2016 film Kickboxer: Vengeance, also written by Logothetis. The film stars Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Christopher Lambert, Ronaldinho, Mike Tyson, Rico Verhoeven and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. Aside from Moussi and Van Damme, Sara Malakul Lane and Sam Medina reprised their roles from the previous film. Set one year after the last outing in Kickboxer: Vengeance, the plot follows MMA champion Kurt Sloane (Moussi) who is sedated and taken to a prison in Bangkok. There he meets crime boss Thomas Moore (Lambert) who runs the underground fights in Thailand. Forced to fight the champion Mongkut (Björnsson) for his freedom, Sloane is once again trained by Master Durand (Van Damme) who was imprisoned by Moore and blinded. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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