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When his cop father (David Warbeck) can't handle him anymore, he decides
to send rebellious teen Kevin (Antonio Sabato jr) away to his oriental
friend Billy (Robert Chang) for the rest of the school's term. But Kevin
is not a boy to stay out of trouble that easily, as he soon picks up Kim
(Nathalie Hendrix), the girl of local bully Jeff (Andrew Parker), at a
discotheque. Jeff, not to happy about this, challenges him to a Karate
duel & gives him a sound beating. Kevin though is not likely to give
up that easily & so the 2 soon face each other again in a carrace,
that ends in a tie. To decide who's the better driver onc e& for
all, Jef proposes that they race in the tunnle of death,
allegedly a deadly race. This time Kevin wins clearly, & noone
dies (not all that deadly after all, is it ?). That night, Kevin
& friends party at the discotheque, while Jeff, furious over having
lost the race, beats up one of Kevin's friends, & when Kevin steps
in, him too. His father meanwhile hears of Kevin's dangerous shenanigans
& decides to take him back, but at the first possibility, Kevin
escapes his father, wanting to fibnish unfinished business he has with
Jeff - but for that he needs to learn Karate. Good thing that Billy, the
guy he stays at, is oriental (they all know Karate, don't they ?), &
he trains him in fighting, until Kevin thinks himself good enough to
challenge Jeff. But at the fight itself, Kevin seems to be losing, that
is,until he spots his father in the audience & shows him what a good
fighter he is. After he has won, father & son reconsile.
When Fabrizio de Angelis rather weak Karate
Warrior-series proved to be successful enough at the video
rentals, he took that as motivation to also make Karate Rock,
a strange blend of teenage drama, car racing & martial arts, that
is, if anything, even weaker than the Karate
Warrior-series. This movie is actually a slow moving, stupid
coming-of-age story, with many an unnecessary shot, dialogue or segue
dragging it to feature length, directed devoid of any cinematic
imagination or knowledge of martial arts, with action scenes that are
incredibly badly executed while the dialogue scenes suffer from bad
writing & bad acting. Something to avoid, rather.
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