Review of Kickboxer 3: The Art of War

This series has reached desperation stakes. We have an average lead, and his again mentor, in a much better performance, he deserves better movie vehicles, than offered in this. Set in one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in the world, Rio (this crap has at least has something going for it) Mitchell and Chan, continuing their partnership are robbed by two Brazilian kids, one a beautiful Brazilian teen girl, who doesn't know the nightmare her future holds, the price of her beauty. Thrown an offer and a lot of money by a sleazy older manager, who favors the fighting skills of our David Sloane (Sasha Mitchell), he declines. But Mitchell and co aren't aware, he also runs a underground white slavery ring of 13-16 year old teen girls, one who escapes at it's start, meeting a horrible if briefly shocking (latter word-viewer wise) fate. Our hottie, Isabella, and she does melt the senses, is kidnapped of course after being eaten up by this dirty manager's eyes. She's such valuable commodity. And here's the rub, Mitchell is drawn back into the ring to fight this guy, where if accepted, he'll return the girl. Yeah right, and you should see what Mitchell has to endure. This elongated swim across the Rio seas, drained me visually. The end fight in the ring is almost replica to the end fight in No 2, a very familiar scene, yet this is less violent, but does have a happy outcome as far as all those kidnapped girls as concerned. Your patience may wear with this mostly flat third Kickboxer outing This 92 minutes of mostly wasted time seems to drone on, for almost ever. Instead of Kickboxer 3: The Art Of War, this should be called: Kickboxer 3: Haven't We Suffered Enough. The easy answer to that: Yes. Weird moment: When Isabella, in a blue flowery dress, is being auctioned in front of two middle aged slavers, she appears in much other scenes. Trick of the camera,or an unintentional slight.