Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Wizard-8 This is a pretty bad martial arts movie for the most part. It's really cheaply made, and with plenty of technical flubs like the book mike making an appearance several times. The story doesn't really make a lot of sense. For one thing, the "MacGuffin" of the story (a plastic piece of pizza!) is forgotten about for the longest time. And there are plenty of plot turns that are lacking explanation, like where did all that stolen gold go to.Is there any genuine merit to be found in the movie? Well, some of the martial art sequences aren't bad. In fact, the martial arts choreography as a whole does beat what you usually find in an American martial arts movie. That's the only genuine bit of merit to be found in the movie. However, if you add unintentional humor to your criteria of merit, the movie does better. Parts of the movie are pretty laughable, from the now dated 1990s fashions on display to the fact that it seems that every performer in the movie overacts outrageously. So there are some good laughs here, but I wouldn't say there are enough to make this essential viewing.P.S. - If you are curious about cult Hong Kong movie star Bolo Yeung, he's pretty much wasted here, only getting a relatively small supporting role.

Jeff Weimer I too served on that ship at the same time, except I fixed your gear. Remember when they showed the movie in the lounge? no one would leave him alone after that. I was actually fairly good friends with him at the time, and he finally opened up about making it.True, it's a terrible movie. But, Bolo Yeung. That alone takes up a lot of the lousy. Sure it's a b-movie. Bolo Yeung is the headliner, for crying out loud. If you watch it looking for top notch editing, plotting, and cinematography; well, you're looking in the wrong place. If you watch it looking for martial arts fight scenes stitched together with a few connecting scenes, then there are worse ways to spend an afternoon, aren't there?

lemon_magic Well, the cast looks really good, in a tanning-bed, dipped-in-plastic way, and most of the fight scenes are at least energetic and creative (most of the fighters are in splendid shape, limber, flexible and extremely well toned and they can kick head high effortlessly). But the plot makes very little sense,(the final "brother against brother" scene is offensively stupid - since when are high school kids allowed to fight full contact in a sport karate tournament with killing techniques?), most of the dialog seems to have been written by someone who learned to speak English by watching soap operas and all the "Karate Kid" movies, and there is some pretty aggressive non-acting going on whenever people aren't punching and kicking each other. There are a couple scenes where the two older male leads ("David" and his brother the gang leader) are talking to each other and they obviously have no idea what to do with their hands.The young Korean guy from "The Goonies" and "Indiana Jones" has a prominent part in this, and in spite of some terrible lines of dialog, he still comes across as a likable young man, but he (and his good looking "older brother") are pretty much wasted in this movie. Hell, Dakota Fanning and Halley Osment couldn't make most of these scenes work. So even if you live for kick boxing movies, this one might have too much kick-boxing for you, and any scene that doesn't involve kick-boxing involves scenery-chewing and badly delivered lines. Still, I got this DVD for $1 at Wal-Mart, and it's not the worst such reissue from Digiview Productions I've seen. Worth seeing once if you want to see absolutely everything Jerry Trimble or Bolo Yeung has ever appeared in...I guess.

Texaslawdog1974 This movie did suck. Bad! But I can't stop watching it because I know one of the actors. Eddie Saavedra and I used to serve on the same ship in the Navy, and true to the picture in the movie, he is a phenomenal martial artist. My only regret is I have lost contact with him when he used to be one of my heroes, because of this movie, and because he taught me almost everything I knew about the job we did together in the Navy when he was my supervisor. He really has talent. It was also great to see Jonathan Ke Quan acting again. He turned out to be quite a fighter himself. One thing I would definitely pay money to see is a better quality movie made with this duo put together again. "Breathing Fire" was definitely a "B" movie, but with the right directors, and better funding, Eddie and Jonathan could really shine.