Apatros Review Ep-0084: Enter The Blood Ring [1995]

AR-0084: An obscure based-on-a-true-story DTV [direct-to-video] martial arts drama [quite a few of those around during the 1990s] made by obscure B-grade studio "Gun For Hire" about a former US Navy SEAL who works days as a New York cabbie and nights as an underground pit fighter to make enough greenback bread to save for a one-way-trip for he and his young son to Australia so the kid's brain tumour can be safely removed by a specialist Aussie treatment.

So far he's doing fine but when a friend steals the money he's saved up so far to pay off a gangland debt, our hero is devastated. However, there is a special tournament coming up that will more than cover the goal our hero is going for and he would have to be extremely stupid to pass up an opportunity like this, especially since his son's life is at stake...

Okay, so this ain't quite the quality of something like "Bloodsport", but at least it is substantially more believable than the lies of Frank Dux, and while the movie might suffer a lot in the presentation side of things, at least it has the heart to make this tolerable for Bad Movie Masochists with a bent for '90s martial arts flicks.

My Grade: D+ [Disappointing]

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