An intergalactic fighting competition between champions of various worlds has traditionally been won by a species much larger and stronger than humans.
Entering the contest, a human finds he has to battle against not just his opponents and his self-doubts, but the corrupt system.....
If you've seen this movie before, you'll already know how bonkers stupid the whole thing is. This is one of those films that I saw trailered on many a straight to video action movie 25-26 years ago, but then when it left the video shelf, it vanished without a trace, and to my knowledge, it's never been on TV or had a DVD release.
So thank heavens for NetFlix, as I have now seen one of my legendary lost films that I thought had vanished forever.
And it's just how I thought it would be,man absolute cheese fest featuring a non-existent lead who makes Van Damme and Lundgren seem like Olivier.
To describe the film is a very heady thing to do. Take The Running Man, Tron, Bloodsport, Barbarella, with the budget of a Troma film, and your almost there.
We basically have a guy who can become the next world champion of the titular sport, but I order to do so, he has to fight lots of people in suits, claymation, and puppets. That's the premise of the film.
And there's a subplot involving a man with silver paint on his face risking losing everything if our hero wins.
As you can imagine, the fights are non existent, so the majority of the time we see our hero from his adversaries perspective, and someone behind the camera hitting him with rubber hands, and it's as fun as it sounds.
The effects are dazzlingly awful, but the puppetry is actually rather good for such a low budget film.
It's a shame that this wasn't more widely recognised, because this could have been a wondrous TV series.
A must for all bad movie fans everywhere.
Entering the contest, a human finds he has to battle against not just his opponents and his self-doubts, but the corrupt system.....
If you've seen this movie before, you'll already know how bonkers stupid the whole thing is. This is one of those films that I saw trailered on many a straight to video action movie 25-26 years ago, but then when it left the video shelf, it vanished without a trace, and to my knowledge, it's never been on TV or had a DVD release.
So thank heavens for NetFlix, as I have now seen one of my legendary lost films that I thought had vanished forever.
And it's just how I thought it would be,man absolute cheese fest featuring a non-existent lead who makes Van Damme and Lundgren seem like Olivier.
To describe the film is a very heady thing to do. Take The Running Man, Tron, Bloodsport, Barbarella, with the budget of a Troma film, and your almost there.
We basically have a guy who can become the next world champion of the titular sport, but I order to do so, he has to fight lots of people in suits, claymation, and puppets. That's the premise of the film.
And there's a subplot involving a man with silver paint on his face risking losing everything if our hero wins.
As you can imagine, the fights are non existent, so the majority of the time we see our hero from his adversaries perspective, and someone behind the camera hitting him with rubber hands, and it's as fun as it sounds.
The effects are dazzlingly awful, but the puppetry is actually rather good for such a low budget film.
It's a shame that this wasn't more widely recognised, because this could have been a wondrous TV series.
A must for all bad movie fans everywhere.