a.k.a. Kickboxer 2025
(Whuuuuut? That's the year we're in!)
Tagline
A personal quest for vengenace
A high tech race for survival
Trailer
Info
Cast
Summary
In a future where Earth is a polluted, crime-ridden hellhole and the rich live on the moon passing their time with VR fantasies and organ upgrades (which is totally not going to happen, right? ... RIGHT?), the last of the Cyberons is hired by the widow of a VR fantasy designer murdered by organ thieves to hunt down his killers on the deadly streets of New Los Angeles.
Opinion
The moment I saw the title "Future Kick", I had to see it. Fans of the TV show Community will understand why.
https://community-sitcom.fandom.com/wiki/Kickpuncher
This Roger Corman-produced flick wisely gives the other actors most of the lines and lets Don kick. My first Don movie, and until I started browsing free streaming, I hadn't realized just how many, many, many Don Wilson movies were out there!
Overall, a competent straight-to-video actioner with a few gonzo deaths yet still fails to enthuse. Meg Foster at least brings some humanity to the screen, but Chris Penn, the year before Reservoir Dogs, in particular seems wasted. (In hindsight, I should clarify I mean "underutilized", not "intoxicated".)
Movie
- https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/466817/future-kick
- https://watch.plex.tv/movie/future-kick
- https://mubi.com/en/us/films/future-kick
- https://www.justwatch.com/mx/pelicula/kickboxer-2025 (as so often, currently says it's unavailable even though it is; I include it here in case it provides better results in future)
Screenshots
Wow. Just... wow.
spoiler
Not one, not two, but THREE decapitations. AND a full-body explosion!!!Also you can tell at some point they were like: "the movie's only an hour long!" And it was like: "no problem, I know a bunch of strippers I keep telling I'll put em in movies, that'll give us another ten minutes at least."
I think Meg Foster's talents were kind of wasted too, they spent too much effort trying to make her look like Linda Hamilton.
And I bet Chris Penn only signed up because he trained with "The Dragon". He prolly cornered him at the gym one day and was like:
It was a lot of fun tho. Don Wilson's movies are all of this quality, but he seems to take em seriously.
:D
Aki Aleong just died, I notice he did several movies with Wilson, might check one out.
And looking at Wilson's Wikipedia, it mentioned he joined the Coast Guard Academy, which perplexed me. Until I realized he was old enough to be drafted and sent to Vietnam! He's 70 now! I always thought of him in the same age bracket as JCVD, Gary Daniels, Olivier Gruner, Mark Dacascos and the other high kickers of the 90s, not someone literally old enough to have served for real in the war he made a movie about.
Looks like "out for blood" qualifies, I'ma check it out. https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/449565/out-for-blood disclaimer: ima be gaming too.
I'm trying out creating a new community (on Piefed) for action movies, and I made a post about Aleong with links to some movies.
For me in MX, Out for Blood is unavailable on Tubi here, but it is on a licensed channel on YouTube (FilmRise)
wah! someone purporting to be "dragondon" posted there a couple years ago!
punk rock man. It was all right. Arguably not much worse than the first Death Wish.
Cool, I hadn't noticed the comment.