Kumite, kumite, kumite, kumite! I don't care what anyone says or whatever film van Damme will make, this will forever be my van Damme holy grail. The soundtrack, the facial expressions, the fights, the simplistic story, the horrendous acting by the kid playing young Frank, all the splits, Jackson, young Forest Whitaker, the chase scene, the sad song montage, the "Fight to Survive" song and I could go on. Bloodsport will never fail to entertain me. Damn I miss my Bloodsport shirt.

Today (2014) this film is cult. After all it made Van Damm famous.

This pure 80s action at its best, you have the awesome JCVD (Frank Dux), Bolo Yeung (Chong Li) and so many more in this film to make it the ultimate 80s cheese fest full of awesome action sequences, funny (bad) dialogue and one of the best soundtracks ever. I recommend this film to anyone looking for a fun time, because thats what this film is and to take it anymore seriously than that is insane. Literally you can see why this film helped spawn Mortal Kombat and lets be honest, this is the best Mortal Kombat movie :) The one thing I wish wasn't in this film was the love interest as it is so unnecessary and forced, but also the whole AWOL plot line as well. Otherwise, this film is definitely one of the best Cannon Films and probably JCVDs best film.

As iconic as this movie is, I find the casual racism intolerable —the one black fighter whose entire "style" is acting like a monkey gets the longest sequence; the only one who acts like a normal person is only shown when he gets defeated… and even Forrest Whittaker is presented as a clown. It's an unpopular opinion, but all the action sequences and memorable scenes, they're hardly redeeming. Some may enjoy it (which is fine); but for me, it takes me completely out.

Beyond all the "anything" story and the rough and exaggerated acting that don't mix with the tone of the movie, Bloodsport brings with it a big US propaganda and reinforces problematic stereotypes that bothered me. I thought the fights choreography was very reasonable, but they can't hold a candle to Bruce Lee or to Jackie Chan, the ending of the movie shows us that it is based on real facts, but in a fast search it's easy to find that this story of Frank Dux is questionable to say the least.