Lauren Avedon as Jake Donahue! Billy Blanks as Khan! Good vs Evil! WHO WINS!!!! How do you rate something so over the top so over exaggerated, so full of itself. The plot will not win Oscars, the lines are just insane and the acting oh boy the acting is so...so...incredibly over the top, it's so good.This movie is a gem, right up there with Superfights and No Retreat, No Surrender as some really fun so bad, it's good martial arts flicks we saw pop up in the mid 90's to early 90's. These movies were the pinnacle of guy-dem, in an era which we saw T2 and Turtles and the Ooze....this was a lost gem that ALL men and true guys who love movies should worship.It's the Troll 2 of action movies, so fun to watch and make fun of.Lauren Avedon, is the Nicolas Cage of action movies; so over the top, he over acts yet...he's so good at it you cannot stop watching. From his Star Wars Episode III Darth Vader like, "Noooooooooooooooooo...." to his egotistical fights and other quizzical one liners. It's so bad it's good?Avedon plays a cop who sees his antagonist in Billy Blanks after years of searching and his memory is jogged. Essentially Lauren Avedon is OUT FOR VENGEANCE and has to become the King of the Kickboxers if he has any chance of living.Could this be the BEST Worst Movie of All Time?

This movie i caught by accident back in 1990. This movie has got a kick-ass soundtrack for its fight montages and opening scenes. The acting as most reviewers have said is quite poor but hey! that's not what matters. It's got to be the awesome moves achieved by the protagonist and nemesis that make it watchable. The main actor is a cop who has a wild side. He is very cocky but gets the job done and will take any kudos his way. Part of his personality may be due to his troubled past that never was resolved. He goes to Thailand to pose as a fighter. This being the only way fit to find the filmmakers. Who are responsible for the making and distributing of snuff movies. The risk is very high since the star in the movies is a murderer in the films. This makes the cop-turned-fighter even more motivated but he still lacks the proper skills to fight Khan (Billy Blanks). Jake(Loren Avedon) learns his ego won't get him very far with his true goals. Knowing this he must train very hard with a man who knows a thing or two about Khan's strengths. Also may have the mind set and right tools to beat him. The man goes by the name Prang. He is played by (Keith Cooke). Prang is touted as a Master fighter by locals. He is also in hiding. He has a funny way of initiating young Jake. They become friends and prepare Jake for Khan. You'll also notice things like Prang looks barely 22 and Jake looks not much older. Khan looks like he's around 27. It's a 90's Martial Art movie so it is not meant to be taken seriously.

I can't believe the score this movie gets around 5/10. Are you kidding me. This movie is in my Top 10 movies of all time. I love Loren Avedon, I'm a huge fan of him.This movie basically gets everything right and I mean everything. The training scenes are awesome, you really hate the villain, you like the hero, the music was great and the fighting was the best ever (high energy kick butt action). Billy Blanks and Loren Avedon a great combination, like Peanut butter and Chocolate.It's simple stuff, but you won't believe how many movies screw that up.When I watched this movie it came on The Movie Channel (HBO, or Showtime in USA). I knew from the preview trailer that this movie was awesome. God was I right.The side-effect of this movie was, I kept looking for similar movies like this and boy was that a bad idea. 80-90's American martial art movies are really bad. I saw around 200 of them and maybe 10 were OK, however none of them came close to King of the Kickboxers.

This is how martial arts film should be (excluding Ricky-Oh that is the best movie ever).An undercover "kickboxer" cop travel to Thailand to investigate some kung fu movies were they really kill people, "snuff kung fu" movies. He also have a personal interest, one of the killers is the guy who killed his brother 10 years ago. The movie is similar in structure to Kickboxer(the one with Van Damme) but this one is ten times more entertaining...you know, the guy who seeks revenge, training and fighting. The dialogs are ridiculous like in every movie of this kind but some fights are very cool. but the plus of the "snuff" movies is the key. Also, the character played by Billy Blanks as the "executor" in the snuff films looks like an inspiration to Machine in 8mm.Very recommended!