The Quest

Year: 1996

Country: USA, Canada

Tagline: Go the distance  »

Plot: Comments by Actor / Writer Roy C. PetersonThis a very good movie with Jean Claude Van Damme as the hero triumphing against all odds. Van Damme also directed and did a very fine job. It's like a synthesis of Indiana Jones with Bloodsport. The story is set in the 1920s and the tournament is not the Kumite, but an equivalent called the Ghang-gheng. The script is actually based upon an amended version of the Bloodsport story which never got produced. The pageantry here is greater. Really exotic settings with a more spectacular tournament venue. More diverse ethnicity via costume. I don't know enough about any of this to comment upon authenticity. For some reason I enjoyed this movie much more the second time I saw it.In the slums of New York City during the 1920s, petty thief Chris Dubois finds himself on the run from the police, the then hides on an outbound freight ship leaving for Asia. Kidnapped by gun smugglers and then sold to pirate captain Lord Dobbs, Chris eventually ends up the property of Khao, a master Asian kickboxer.

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