I enjoy this movie quite a bit. Around the time that this movie came out, I watched it quite a few times. I would take my copy (VHS) of it over to a friend's house where there were quite a few friends and we all would chill out and watch it. Some parts we just cracked up laughing at! Some years later I tracked down and bought a DVD copy. Also, as far as I know this was the first time that I had heard of this Brazilian martial art. I had seen it though for the first time in an arcade video game Street Fighter II, when I used to play the character who would do Capoeira fighting (in a fighting game) and his name was Blanka.

Nostalgic movie. Here in Brazil it wasn't release in theaters, but went directly to TV and was a time where Capoeira was in the peak, I remember my school's friends only talked about the movie on the next day after was showed in tv. I think many kids started practice Capoeira after watched. The title in Brazil is "Esporte Sangrento", something like "Bloody Sport"

Routine martial arts movie - this time with capoeira Surprisingly, this movie doesn't feel as dated as many others made at the time. Maybe it is the music, maybe it is the pretty routine plot?