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The King of the Kickboxers
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy hard-edged martial-arts action, undercover tension, and straightforward revenge stories driven by training and physical confrontation.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, adventurous
- Payoff
- adrenaline, catharsis
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- revenge, justice, brotherhood, exploitation, identity
- Setting
- late twentieth century, Bangkok’s criminal underworld and martial-arts training spaces