Night of the Warrior (1991)

Overrated and overhyped

i must have seen a different film!!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Released in 1991, Night of the Warrior featured Kathleen Kinmont as Katherine Pierce. So she plays a different form of Kath in this movie. Also featured Ken Foree who earlier in 1986 had been in From Beyond which starred Kathleen's Fraternity Vacation co-star Barbara Crampton. A nice lovely scene of Kathleen as Katherine in the shower and she looked lovely in that towel afterwards. The photographic shot of Katherine is just as lovely as her scene in Fraternity Vacation when the already topless Kathleen took off her panty. Incidentally the house that Katherine lived in is the same one that the Halliwell sisters lived in, in Charmed. The shot of Kathleen in the last scene was very lovely. Not a bad premise about illegal fighting and debts.

Like Michael Corleone, Lorenzo Lamas wants to kick the kickboxing racket because he's paid his debt in full to the folks he borrowed money from to start his dance club. But he's being pulled back in again because fight promoter Anthony Geary is in debt to some Korean gangsters also in the kickboxing promotion business. And Geary will do just about anything to get Lamas back especially after what he sees the Koreans are capable of.That in a nutshell is Night Of The Warrior and Lorenzo Lamas has made a nice career in doing competent action films, but this isn't one of them. In fact it drags considerably in spots as Lorenzo is shown to have a sensitive side and an interest in photography. It's his real passion.Why he's doing the dance club thing is more for his mother played by his real life mother Arlene Dahl. She's an old Broadway dancer who knows little else and this gives her a living. She's the best one in a rather mediocre film. I'm sure Arlene Dahl missed the big studio glamor at MGM from her salad days. But she's a good mom and no doubt Lorenzo's a good son and she's helping her offspring. But Lorenzo kicking and Arlene's still ravishing beauty can't save this.

Lorenzo Lamas stars as Miles a kickboxer who is trying to retire from fighting, however things go awry when a mobster won't let him retire in this terrible fight flick. Night Of The Warrior is the worst kind of action movie, a deadly serious fight flick without a dash of humor or merit and a surprising lack of action which has been replaced by awful music scores. Well worth avoiding.

Lamas plays stereotypical beefcake complete with bike and leathers riding about and beating people up, determined to shake off his illegal bare knuckle battles now that his debts are paid off yet the bleeding hoodlums who run the racket won't let him be. He's wanted for one last brawl, yet upon his refusal, the meanies get mean and start to terrorise the poor chap, torn between his life and his loyalty to others. A pointless B-movie with arthouse credentials, the film is more pretentious than classy, and a complete waste of time even if there is nothing else on.