"A Dangerous Place" is one of several movies the teenaged martial arts trained Ted Jan Roberts made for the PM Entertainment film company. None of these movies were particularly good, and this one may the worst of the bunch. It's not really Roberts' fault that the movie is tough to sit through - the director and the screenwriter have to shoulder the blame. The biggest problem with the movie is how slow and dull it is almost throughout. It takes about half of the movie before the Roberts' character starts on the road of revenge, and even when he does start down that path, the energy level of the movie is still extremely low. I guess the movie has one positive subtle message, that being that revenge can put you in danger and hurt the people around you. There is also a faint pulse of life whenever veteran movie actor Mako is on the screen. And I will admit that there are a few unintended laughs, most of them being Corey Feldman's inability to be convincing as a trained martial artist who is a really bad dude. Aside from those things, there is nothing to make this worth a look, unless you are a relative of Ted Jan Roberts.

The first time I saw this film I was thirteen years old,though I never saw it complete and I never knew the title I could never forget about it. To many fans of these kind of films consider this one the karate kid of the nineties,in fact this film is another of the many clones that the karate kid saga has, but this one is darker than the Daniel larusso story.The story is about a kid who will try to find the guilty of his older brother's death, a path that he will have to go through alone, because the killers made it look as a suicide.Yesterday I had the chance of watch this film again, is really entertained, with good acting,good story but all about a very realistic and spectacular fight scenes which is the main reason why I haven't forgot about this film

I guess my summary sums up what you are going to get.There is a decent murder mystery twist, there is an angle on gangs, and Asian spirituality.Could have been deeper, but I can't give to low of grade since I watched it all and was entertained._________________________________________I would limit my review there, but IMDb insist that I have ten lines.So the acting was very passable. Corey Feldman plays the antagonist and does a decent villain.The main problem of the is that it has no style at all. It's like watching TV drama. If they had gave the script to a director that can add substance, might have made the movie better.The Movies is Karate Kid with a murder twist. And the photography and the style tries to hard to copy Karate Kid. When they had enough new things to stand on their own.

And I still do. This movie is good. At least it is much better than 'Karate Kid'. Of course, somebody could say that it is a ripoff of 'Karate Kid' but there are some very important differences.First and probably the most important thing is that the teenager karate expert was a real teenager. You know, Ralph Macchio was 23 years old when he starred in 'Karate Kid'. It was pretty strange for me to see a man at his age at the role of 16 years old boy.Second, I will tell something about the fights. Although I liked the fights in 'Karate Kid' I could see that Macchio and the rest of the actors do not have real martial arts experience. The fights in 'A Dangerous Place' are much more realistic and much more attractive. Much better, I think.Now I will tell something about the characters and the acting. Well, the acting in 'A Dangerous Place' is not better than the acting in 'Karate Kid' but it is not worse too. But the characters are much better developed. I will try to explain. What was the main character in 'Karate Kid'? A teenager searching for troubles all the time who finally got black belt after two months of training, right? And what was the main character in 'A Dangerous Place'? A teenager who had devoted his life to martial arts and who did not search for troubles until somebody killed his brother. I think Ethan had much better motivation for what he did than Daniel. What do you think? What was the karate teacher of Daniel? A funny old man ho made his student wash his car, right? And what was the karate teacher of Ethan? A funny old man who showed his students real karate. What do you think? Who is more believable? The story... Guess what? I think the story in 'A Dangerous Place' is much better than the story in 'Karate Kid'. Yes, it is not very believable but the story in 'Karate Kid' is not too.And so on. I like this movie.