They were trying to make a serious movie, correct? Then they failed, so 0 stars. However, if they were trying to sneak a comedy into the theatres, then I will warily offer up 2 stars. I mean, that daft king, the Parmistan half-wits and the Crazies Race. Comedy, right? Anyway, this might be a fun trip down memory lane for people who caught it on late-night cable in the 80s or 90s but if you value your time this is an unmitigated pile of Parmistani cheese. Were U.S. medal winners in an Olympic games that didn't even include half or more of the world's best athletes so popular that Hollywood was willing to throw money at skinny, mullet-wearing midgets in lead roles? And a personal nitpick: martial arts are about as pointless and useless as 13-century atonal chants. I mean, other than as a demonstration of Ye Olden Days. Because if you're trying to kill a guy in the 20th century, you don't send 10 guys in black dresses and diapers on their heads. You have a guy shoot the intended victim. It's called a gun. And it's pretty effective. You martial arts losers need to restrict yourselves to teaching kids self-esteem at the local strip mall. Otherwise your skills have zero practical application in the real world. Yak-Mala !!

Handsome, muscular Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas (as Jonathan Cabot) does a routine on the high bar. Meanwhile, a man dressed like he's escaped from a modern hospital runs from horsemen who appear to be from medieval times. The running man is hit by an arrow while Mr. Thomas does a routine on the parallel bars. Believe it or not, the modern Thomas exists in the same time period as the characters in the chase scene. The story takes place in the present, but it moves to a faraway land. Thomas is recruited to go to this "Most Dangerous Game" land and win a contest. He is given an extraordinarily beautiful female partner, Tetchie Agbayani (as Princess Rubali). Thomas flips for her and everyone else..."Gymkata" is meant to combine Thomas's "Gymnastics" with "Karate" as a martial arts sub-genre movie. Thomas and his co-star are very attractive. The emphasis is on action, but the story is very weak. Most of the story involves Thomas being given contrived situations in which to show off his gymnastic feats...The most absurd sequence occurs after the first hour...Thomas is in what appears to be a crumbling old village. Mysterious clocked figures appear in windows and doorways. One male beckons Thomas and shows his firm, naked buttocks. Thomas declines the encounter, which may have been telegraphed by the gymnast's coolness, in an earlier scene, toward a fawning gay attendant. Thomas makes his way to a town center, finds a pummel horse and begins gymnastically taking down people. The crumbling town citizens look like they wandered in from a film hybrid directed by the love child of Frederico Fellini and George Romano. For these approximately 20 minutes, "Gymkata" director Robert Clouse makes this otherwise boring film quite visually arresting...******* Gymkata (5/3/1985) Robert Clouse ~ Kurt Thomas (the bizarre, approximately 20-mintute old town section) **** Gymkata (5/3/1985) Robert Clouse ~ Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton, Edward Bell (whole film)

On a week-long trip with a group of friends, primarily watching bad movies, with a few decent horror movies sprinkled throughout, this film was a stand-out disappointment. This movie is bad, but to the point where it's just tedious to watch. All the fun of bad movies like the ever-popular 'The Room' and the not-so-popular 'Samurai Cop' is absent here, rendering it a sad and drawn-out experience, lending itself to next to no in-joke possibilities. What this film didn't have that other, more fun bad movies have is an amateur charm. This film is too consistent in its production to be a good bad film, yet too boring and stock-standard 80s action movie-esque to be a bad good film. In attempting to play off its novelty - an action hero who uses a combination of Olympic-style gymnastics combined with Karate - the film falls flat, relying too heavily on it. As a result, the plot itself comes off as more of an excuse to show off some sweet moves than a way of at least having fun with the action movie genre. All in all, it's not fun enough to be a recommendable group-viewing experience.Steer clear.

this funny movie on TNT a bit.. called Jim Kata, or some crap. I had seen just one part of that movie before, and this guy was like on this gymnast beam thing, and spinning around and kicking all these poor people, and I demanded my sister look really quickly, but she didn't come that instant, and missed that funny fight scene ,so no whenever we see that movie on TNT, we have to watch it, because the guy beats EVERYONE up, and he is some mullet guy who is just some gymnast, and it's like some conspiracy movie based in India, and everyone gets shot for no reason. It's hilarious, it's almost like one of those movies the guys on Mystery Science Theater would make fun of, it's just ridiculous....... one of the guys' partners turns on him, and points a gun at him, then this guy pops out of the shadows and machine guns that guy, and is like "this is the secret service!", and Jim Kata just shrugs and says "whatever".. lol..