The Fighter (1989)

• Year: 1989
• Released: 02 Jun 1989
• Country: United States, Philippines
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093022/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_fighter
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-fighter
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Runtime: 100 min
• Writer: Noah Blough, Anthony Maharaj
• Director: Anthony Maharaj
• Cast: Richard Norton, Erica Van Wagener, Franco Guerrero
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	4.6/10
	91% – Critics
	89% – Audience

The Fighter Storyline

Ryan Travers (Richard Norton) has just been released from a prison in Bangkok, Thailand, after serving a five-year sentence for murder. His parents, running an antique shop in the area while waiting for their son to be released, are killed in an explosion perpetrated by the local mob after refusing to pay protection money. Ryan’s news go from bad to worse when he learns his sister Katie (Erica Van Wagener) is seriously ill and will need an operation. With only a dead end job at a construction site after his release, Ryan learns about a local underground fight ring and decides to enter to raise the money for his sister’s medical fees and search vengeance.—IvanWong

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It’s Two! Two! Two movies in one.

This movie is a gas. Laughing gas that is. It’s all the fault of David Winter’s Action International Pictures (AIP) video label. Every time I saw an action flick from AIP, I noticed that the film seemed to be two and sometimes maybe three or more films stitched together. In film one, we have a very youthful Richard Norton with a gigantic Adam’s apple running around the streets of Bangkok causing trouble. In one moment, he is caught cheating at dice, and accidentally kills his accuser. He is sentenced to jail for murder. Now part 2. It’s seven years later, and Richard looks like he just walked off the set of China O’ Brien looking buffed and tanned and in perfect health as he is released from prison. Soon he gets involved in human cockfights winning money left and right, but the mob had killed his mother and father earlier in the opening scene, and for reasons I forgot, they kidnap his younger sister in hopes he will throw the fight against Benny the Jet. You think I’m making this up? If you ever see this film listed on the online auctions snap it up. You’ll be glad you did. I would like to see this get a decent DVD distribution. I really would. Specifically a commentary by Norton just to hear what he thought about being in two movies being stitched together to make one film.

Just die with dignity…

Richard Norton stars as Ryan Travis, a street punk who becomes a street fighter to pay for the operation that will save his sister, however the mobsters want him to lose so they decide to try and kidnap her while he trains in whatever it is they call martial arts in this movie. Kick Fighter stars Richard Norton, who I know is a great martial artist but in this movie he isn’t so great, in fact his action sequences are laboring and slow. Norton doesn’t have enough charisma to make the role work and basically the movie is a yawner as we watch lackluster martial arts rain down on the screen with no skill or purpose. It can also be that we are indifferent to who wins being that we know so little about the characters but mainly it is because the movie is so boring. It’s not so bad it’s good, it doesn’t have good fight sequences, it’s just awful and you’re best off avoiding it like the plague.

1/2* out of 4-(Awful)

Wasted Gwai lo’s

When I came across this movie in a small Birmingham newsagent for a mere £4.99 I thought it was my lucky day! Richard Norton and Benny the Jet Urquidez are arguably two of the best “Gwailo” villains to have ever graced the Jade screen, so to have the two go against each other seemed like the makings for quality entertainment – I was clearly wrong! The basic premise of the story sees Richard go into raw, back street brawling matches to earn extra cash in order to look after his ill sister. Ultimately, and after some terrible fight scenes, his sister is kidnapped and Richard is forced into a contest against the “World Undefeated Kickboxing Champion” (Benny) to save her. Why? I’m not too sure! As mentioned, the fight sequences that occur for the first hour of the film are not even close to the standard of any HK action film. There is little evident choreography, and it seems as though they really did pick brawlers off the street and got Richard to grapple with them. The finale against Benny is also a disappointment, as having seen both of them battle people like Jackie Chan and Sammo so impressively, they really should have put more effort in. Richard pulls a few nice kicks, but Benny looks a bit fat and even older than his far more impressive outing 7 years later in ‘Enter the Eagles’. Richard himself has been a fight choreographer numerous times, especially for Cynthia Rothrock or Chuck Norris’s ‘Walker’ TV series and they all show his talents far better than here. I can only assume it wasn’t his choreography, but can’t see the point of bringing someone else in, especially on the apparent shoestring budget! There is nothing to recommend this film to anyone accustomed to the HK styling of people like Sammo Hung or Yuen Woo Ping unless you must own every film featuring these two guys. If you want an added fix of Richard Norton go for something better like ALL his HK films or even his US efforts with Cynthia Rothrock. As for Benny: Well, keep re-running ‘Wheels on Meals’, ‘Dragons Forever’ or ‘Enter the Eagles’ to remind you he is actually a fantastic fighter!