JCVD plays Frank Dux, a U.S. Army Captain who goes AWOL to compete in the Kumite—an illegal and deadly full-contact martial arts tournament held once every five years, to which only the world's best martial artists are invited—with his main motivation being to pay respect to his sickly mentor (Chiao) who took him under his wing. Burton and Whitaker (the only two to offer halfway decent acting) play CID officers on the hunt for Dux. Despite bad acting, disappointing choreography and endless clichés, none of the paper-thin characters are exceptionally unlikable (though this might be because they're so poorly developed) and the Hong Kong setting is captured so vividly. Based on unconfirmed claims by the real-life Dux.
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