I remember being at a grocery store with my mom back in early 90s. and you could rent videos there as well. And I remember seeing this giant movie poster for this movie and seeing this guy kicking ninjas in the face. And anything with Ninja's in the 90s as a kid was amazing, so I begged her to rent it, she didn't LOL.
I know how you feel I remember getting on my knees to beg my mom to rent revenge of the Ninja and missing in action 2 at my local video hits plus instead we got Beethoven and clue at least we got a bag of Doritos and a bottle of Pepsi in the deal
Gymkata is my favorite gymnastics based martial arts movie starring Kurt Thomas. It truly is one of the best "so bad it's good movies". It's like The Room of martial arts flicks. Another great review, sir!
This was one of my favorite martial arts movies during my 80s karate phase. Kurt’s trainer (the one with the falcon) is Tadashi Yamashita who is also BlackStar Ninja in American Ninja, and Seikura in The Octagon. (Thank you for these amazing videos!)
Too much movement for Steve, he'd have his stunt double do it. Then layer his face over the stunt double. Then layer the other guys face over that one.
Just when I thought the conveniently located gymnastics alley bar was the coolest thing I have ever seen, this movie blows my mind with the conveniently located insane people town’s pommel horse! The only thing missing was a conveniently located battle trampoline. The unnecessarily gratuitous slow motion was the icing on the cake!
Kurt Thomas is real life "Luke Skywalker"! (minus the midachlorians) Then I see the "Mel brooks" guy, and it's "Yogurt". "Star Wars" and "Spaceballs" meet. I needed this.
R.I.P. Kurt Thomas...you will be missed. Saw Gymkata in the theatre when it came out when I was 10- instantly went home to jump over lawn furniture and climb trees,lol!
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Easy simple minded people if you read the tytle of this classic film. Gymkata. The skill of Karate with Gymnastics. Put those 2 together and you have one very fast unstoppable fighting force. And the many people just standing there as He takes them out. If they all went in to attack him he would be dead Butchered and film finished. This film is one very good well made put together classic for the 1980s. It has alot in it with a very good film starcast. A great brilliant fantastic soundtrack. Very good fighting scenes. Why did you watch it all the way through just to bad mouth it. And to the simple minded the young Fighter Kurt Thomas was in real life a Gymnastics Gykata Fighter. It's all about speed and timing very fast. This film is age 15 and over. Any Youngsters under that age watching this are Breaking the Law. It's unsuitable and not for under that age. Very young Children of very young ages under 15 shouldn't be viewing such films with unsuitable scenes. And parents renting out films like this for underage Children to see are Breaking the law. It's a Crime and also parents will get fined jailed taken to court. This film isn't suitable for under 15 so no Child under that age shouldn't be viewing it .
With each passing year, this film gets more enjoyable. And the "It's just a bit of anti-American sentiment..." never gets old. Wonderful work on this video, sir!
If ever there was a movie made for Red Eye Reviews, it is this gem. Brilliant work as usual, good sir. And if you ever have the opportunity to find them, 1. Kill or Be Killed and 2. Kill and Kill Again are cheesy martial arts gold.
This was one of me and my sisters favorite movies growing up. We were close but as I neared adulthood I started making bad decisions that landed me in jail. Our relationship sort of suffered, we've never really been close ever since.. until I sent her this video on Gymkata. She loved it and it brought back so many wonderful memories from our childhood. Now we text each other random movie scenes and try to guess the movie lol. 🤷🏽♂️ Idk it's a start just wanted to say thx man seriously ✌🏽
John Cabot (aka Giovanni Caboto) was the name a a pretty famous Italian explorer. He was the first European explorer to actually step foot in North America, on the East cost of Canada in 1497 (Christopher Columbus only went to the Bahamas). In the 1970's it was determined that the Viking discovered Newfoundland, and built a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows around 1000AD, thus beating both Columbus & Cabot by about 500 years. TLDR - John Cabot is a fine name.
Awesome video, man. I remember watching this on HBO in the '80s, realizing that this is the same guy that directed Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee, throwing my remote at the TV lol
could’ve swore the legendary Bart Conner also had an action movie like this, but can’t find anything other than his role in the movie “Rad” which is another epic 80s thrill ride
1985 and I was 15/116. I remember seeing this in a dollar theatre. I absolutely love gymnastics and America, so this movie was a definite must for me. However, I don't really recall anything from it--other than the alley scene. Maybe it's because I went from the extreme heat of San Antonio into the chilly air of the theatre and my brain jelled. From what I've seen it has all of the over-the-top storylines and predictable corniness of an 80s action movie. And that is why that decade ruled!!! #Godblessthe80s
You have the unerring ability to continually select from the movie highlights(?) of my childhood, and I couldn't be happier to have found your channel! Thank you, sir :)
The twirl is what makes it parkour. That man is very skilled indeed! Was not expecting crotch shot in this one, quite the surprise there! Lol Love the random gymnastics equipment laying around Parmistan. Must be a national passtime. They even gave some to the crazy town! 🤣
FanboyFlicks already covered this Gymkata movie and I must admit your review is different but in a good way ;) I had a blast watching this video, thank you.
Yay you finally made it! I remember the map they use towards the beginning also has some blatant mistake (Black Sea for Capsian Sea or something). 11:01 I love how he's flexing both arms to hang onto the rope, because his out-of-frame feet are definitely not touching the floor. And I thought you missed the best line, but you just kept it for the end: "There's just a little anti-American sentiment running around, but I think..." *gets shot with an arrow*.
Just like Alexander the Great he brought his formidable Gym-Fu skills to far flung Parmesan! There’s definitely a revenge story for elite athletes in there somewhere, I didn’t get to win gold so I’m a gonna burn down the Mafia!
I'm sure most folks here know about it but Richard Norton was one of the guests on Scott Adkins' "The Art of Action" yt series and he talked in some detail about this film (and other stuff too of course, it's a really interesting interview if you like action/martial arts cinema).
@@RedEyeReviews You don't watch The Art of Action?! There's an ep with Seagal too, but Adkins is too nice to go for some weirder stuff. I love eps with Cynthia Rothrock, Norton, Urquidez...
It’s a must watch for fans of 80’s martial arts cheese. He even interviewed Kurt McKinney from No Retreat, No Surrender (couldn’t find R.J. to interview him, alas) and we got some behind the scenes insights into that classic.
Awesome stuff. 0:09 In honor of the Olympics you'll do Gymkata? You mean the Winter Olympics where gymnastics doesn't feature? ;) 1:00 Present tense? You know Kurt Thomas passed away two years ago, right? 1:35 A gymnast is doing it (a game based on athletic skill) because world-class gymnasts are - surprise, surprise - among the most capable athletes in the world. Plus his special intelligence father had also competed in the game previously and had disappeared without a trace. So there's that. 7:32 They're not ninjas. "Ninjas" with machine guns however featured on the film's poster. 9:17 The first one wasn't fair because they weren't in the same stage as the prisoner - which is why he was immediately killed for breaking the rules. The second one was fair because he was in the same stage as the prisoner as explained in the film's dialogue. 10:24 That was again against the rules, but as you should know, they were intentionally breaking all the rules at that point.
Family guy made a reference to this movie when stewie did a cutaway gag about having a style of martial arts that’s basically weaponized gymnastics but it is extremely specific in its requirement of having gymnastic Equipement (such as a pommel horse) conveniently placed where a fight needs to happen. They even call it gymkata and stewie uses it to rescue an Asian princess.
This is another one of those classics that I'm glad that you covered. Those parts with the OBVIOUS gymnastic equipment always crack me up! Thank you SO much for all the hard work you put into these. They just keep on getting better and better! :)
@@RedEyeReviews I absolutely love it whenever you post up a new video. I've been posting your new videos up on r/humorousreviews to try to get more eyes on it too. I can't really afford Patreon, being on a fixed income, but I can always share you with the best places I know where people will appreciate you and your style of humor. :)
Omg, was the inspiration for the Old Spice guy one of the trainers from this movie? You could tell it was his first time on a horse. He sounded out of breath and was watching the horse's every step.
I remember being 10 years old in 1986 when I was living in Puerto Rico, there was a video club called Top Hat Video, located on Ave Monserrate on the corner of Sanchez Osorio Ave in Carolina, and they had a huge poster for Gymkata facing Moserrate Ave. I wanted to see this movie sooo bad, but I didn't have a VCR back then. However, my best friend at the time, Edwin Gonzalez (RIP), his dad used to rent a bunch of R rated Canon Films, which is where I saw classics like Revenge of the Ninja, Missing in Action 2, The Octagon, and also saw First Blood as well. However, I never saw Gymkata. It seems it was never meant to be.
Wow, that parkour move at 7:00 was just off the charts. Who knew that such a cheesy movie would have such talent in it. [END SARCASM] Wait...at 14:57 we get a mention of the Stars Wars program in Gymkata? Ummm. Okaayyy. So. maybe in Seagal's next movie that takes place in India, they can mention that chess was invented in India in the 8th century. That would be an appropriate insert. Right? "Death becomes you." RER: "Yea, and oats become cereal." LOL!!
Man! I so much remember watching this movie way back in the day when I was a kid, in the late 80s. I was so pumped up about all the techniques and mad moves I had learned by watching it, that right there next morning I tried to take on the two bullies who terrorized our schoolyard. Boy, did I get my ass kicked bad!
Zamir, the villian, is played by Richard Norton who had a very interesting career. He's an Australian martial artist, stuntman, stunt coordinator, actor, who first got into the entertainment business as a bodyguard for various actors & music stars. He was the bodyguard for Kylie Minoque & the Rolling Stones among other people and then went to Hong Kong, where he starred in a bunch of martial arts action movies alongside Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Cynthia Rothrock and Sammo Hung, mostly playing the villian. He's still in the movie/tv business, working also as a fight choreographer/stunt coordinator behind the camera. (Spartacus tv-show, Mad Max Fury Road) Jackie Chan's ''City Hunter'' movie, where he plays again the main villain, would be a perfect movie to review on your channel. That's the one with the Street Fighter sequence, where Jackie turns into Chun Li.
When I was a kid this was my favorite movie to go over to my grandmothers house and watch on her VHS. Had me thinking gymnastics was it's own martial art style lol.
Woke up late yesterday and I didn't make breakfast so I saved your video to watch today. The highlight of my weekend is normally watching your video and making breakfast for the fam bam😆 have a good week dude 🤘
Great review. Either way this film is super nostalgic for me. The conveniently placed gymnast tools only makes it better cause Kurt Thomas was literally a bad ass of 80's gymnast. Still love this movie till this day!!!
@@RedEyeReviews just a question. Have you ever tried any "Bollywood" movie's?? Lmao. There is some good, funny one's. If u want any ideas, check out channel called "Corridor crew". They react to the best one's. Either way, what ever you do I enjoy everytime. Have a great day.
Dude I love Mel Brooks and I'm glad that you (probably) do, too. Another great vid. Caught this on VHS at a party in high school a while back. Hilaraious. Fav part is when the handler gets the arrow. Just, out of nowhere.
Hey, my daughters do gymnastics. So that means they're top notch martial artist. 😂 I know it doesn't work like that. But the people who made this movie believed so.😂
(Written before even watching the review) I'm so excited you are doing this movie! I was wondering when you were going to get around to it. I remember first watching it late one night on either TBS/TNT/USA and thought it might be some strange fever dream hallucination because I wasn't really sure what I was watching was real. (Written after watching the review) That fever dream feeling was definitely generated by the village of the crazy people scene, especially the super long slow-mo and the anachronistic pommel horse. I do love the Princess Bride splicey during the reacts segment, and feel you could have done a splicey with the handler getting shot with an arrow and either the video or just the audio of Lancelot's squire getting shot in Monty Python's The Holy Grail and Eric Idle saying "Message for you, sir.". Also, I feel like during the crazy town compilation, for the guy hanging out the window and laughing it sounds like they took and slightly modified the sound effect of Salacious Crumb laughing - Jabba's Koawakian Monkey-Lizard (I am THAT nerd) from Return of the Jedi.
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I remember being at a grocery store with my mom back in early 90s. and you could rent videos there as well. And I remember seeing this giant movie poster for this movie and seeing this guy kicking ninjas in the face. And anything with Ninja's in the 90s as a kid was amazing, so I begged her to rent it, she didn't LOL.
Have you been able to bring yourself to forgive your mom yet? If so, you are a bigger man than I!🤔😉🙂
I'm sorry to hear about that, but don't worry, we're all here for you. 😂
@@munstrumridcully 😂😂
I know how you feel I remember getting on my knees to beg my mom to rent revenge of the Ninja and missing in action 2 at my local video hits plus instead we got Beethoven and clue at least we got a bag of Doritos and a bottle of Pepsi in the deal
@@donright4492 what flavor Doritos?
Gymkata is my favorite gymnastics based martial arts movie starring Kurt Thomas. It truly is one of the best "so bad it's good movies". It's like The Room of martial arts flicks. Another great review, sir!
Haha mine too!
No it was too horrible
This was one of my favorite martial arts movies during my 80s karate phase. Kurt’s trainer (the one with the falcon) is Tadashi Yamashita who is also BlackStar Ninja in American Ninja, and Seikura in The Octagon.
(Thank you for these amazing videos!)
I haven't seen this movie since I was like 10. It has aged like a fine wine.
7:04 Clearly, that was Steven Seagal doing that epic stunt work. No one else could have pulled it off.
Of course!He has been a stuntman since he was 5 years old!
I think the stunt was CGI, no way any human can pull that off.
Too much movement for Steve, he'd have his stunt double do it. Then layer his face over the stunt double. Then layer the other guys face over that one.
Steven's been twirling in front of stationary vehicles for the better part of forty years now.
Just when I thought the conveniently located gymnastics alley bar was the coolest thing I have ever seen, this movie blows my mind with the conveniently located insane people town’s pommel horse!
The only thing missing was a conveniently located battle trampoline.
The unnecessarily gratuitous slow motion was the icing on the cake!
Red Eye Reviews you have honored my request to continue providing us with these awesome “classics”. Thank you brother
I'm so glad! You're very welcome :)
Damn! Look how big that hawk is! I had no idea they were that huge! I always thought of them as kinda like a vicious seagull.
Kurt Thomas is real life "Luke Skywalker"! (minus the midachlorians) Then I see the "Mel brooks" guy, and it's "Yogurt". "Star Wars" and "Spaceballs" meet. I needed this.
I needed this as well lol
R.I.P. Kurt Thomas...you will be missed. Saw Gymkata in the theatre when it came out when I was 10- instantly went home to jump over lawn furniture and climb trees,lol!
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Aww you are too kind :)
it's a good thing that most of the people he fight seem to stand perfectly still whenever he fights them
And there was always a bar to swing on
Easy simple minded people if you read the tytle of this classic film.
Gymkata.
The skill of Karate with Gymnastics.
Put those 2 together and you have one very fast unstoppable fighting force.
And the many people just standing there as He takes them out.
If they all went in to attack him he would be dead Butchered and film finished. This film is one very good well made put together classic for the 1980s.
It has alot in it with a very good film starcast.
A great brilliant fantastic soundtrack.
Very good fighting scenes.
Why did you watch it all the way through just to bad mouth it.
And to the simple minded the young Fighter Kurt Thomas was in real life a Gymnastics Gykata Fighter.
It's all about speed and timing very fast.
This film is age 15 and over.
Any Youngsters under that age watching this are Breaking the Law.
It's unsuitable and not for under that age.
Very young Children of very young ages under 15 shouldn't be viewing such films with unsuitable scenes.
And parents renting out films like this for underage Children to see are Breaking the law.
It's a Crime and also parents will get fined jailed taken to court. This film isn't suitable for under 15 so no Child under that age shouldn't be viewing it .
Feels like a mix of Rocky 4 and a Bond flick, with some enter the dragon thrown in for good measure. And ninjas, can't forget the ninjas
There are no ninjas, unfortunately, just guys dressed in black.
With each passing year, this film gets more enjoyable. And the "It's just a bit of anti-American sentiment..." never gets old. Wonderful work on this video, sir!
So glad you liked it. That arrow scene cracked me up so bad
If ever there was a movie made for Red Eye Reviews, it is this gem. Brilliant work as usual, good sir. And if you ever have the opportunity to find them, 1. Kill or Be Killed and 2. Kill and Kill Again are cheesy martial arts gold.
So glad you liked it! I will look for those movies soon!
"He's really in his elements now" not sure if this was an intentional pun but it's brilliant lol.
This was one of me and my sisters favorite movies growing up. We were close but as I neared adulthood I started making bad decisions that landed me in jail. Our relationship sort of suffered, we've never really been close ever since.. until I sent her this video on Gymkata. She loved it and it brought back so many wonderful memories from our childhood. Now we text each other random movie scenes and try to guess the movie lol. 🤷🏽♂️ Idk it's a start just wanted to say thx man seriously ✌🏽
When Family Guy did a Gymkata bit I nearly cried. Such an obscure thing and I was in shock but laughing so hard.
John Cabot (aka Giovanni Caboto) was the name a a pretty famous Italian explorer. He was the first European explorer to actually step foot in North America, on the East cost of Canada in 1497 (Christopher Columbus only went to the Bahamas).
In the 1970's it was determined that the Viking discovered Newfoundland, and built a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows around 1000AD, thus beating both Columbus & Cabot by about 500 years.
TLDR - John Cabot is a fine name.
Oooo now this is pretty cool history. Thanks for sharing :)
Did he also discover Parmistan?
@@kungfew1396 😂
Honestly I have never even heard of this movie. Good on ya Redeye! You are dragging out some GOLD
I just watched this last week out of the blue. This dropped before going to bed. This should be fun. 👍
I was in 6th grade (1988) and my friend’s dad rented this one out on VHS. We loved the pommel horse scene! I remember the town’s folk creepin’ me out.
This is the dose of high energy comedy I needed this morning
Parmastan...😂 pretty sure the A-team has been there and shot out some bad guy's tires
Zamir is played by Richard Norton who was also in Future Hunters (1988), a movie you should definitely put on your list.
I think quite a few Richard Norton movies could make his list 😂
Who also did part of Kia the Sai-wielding main ninja, in The Octagon. Tadashi Yamashita, who was the other trainer of Kurt, was Seikura.
That guy was in every martial arts B movie ever made lol.
@@owie4070 "China O'Brian" trilogy. Let's make it happen!!!!
@@kevynhansyn2902 Hell yeah!
him saying "carabal on the Caspian sea" is the only thing i remember from that movie.
The director of this also directed both "China O'Brien" movies starring the awesome Cynthia Rothrock.
17:58. Business up front, party in the back!
The thumbnail was used for streets of rage 1 on sega
Awesome video, man. I remember watching this on HBO in the '80s, realizing that this is the same guy that directed Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee, throwing my remote at the TV lol
Thanks for covering this movie. I recommended it a couple weeks ago, I hope you injoyed it. I enjoyed your review.
Of course! It was an excellent recommendation :)
14:23 Grandpa Joe did ok for himself after finding the golden ticket!
I asked for this review,and you did it.Thank you very much 😁👍
I gotchyu!
@@RedEyeReviews it would be great if you could do Jaws of the dragon,and Galyon the indestructible man sometime in the future 😊 Thanks a lot .
Red background almost made me miss this but I do love your new thumbnail format. Red on red is hard to see so the eyeball wasn't as obvious
Agreed! Maybe for red backgrounds I can update the little triangle to yellow or something
@@RedEyeReviews yeah
just this rare case but otherwise they're great.
THIS WAS GREAT! I was wondering if I was going to get my Saturday morning review when I was passing out lastnight😂🙌🏾
So glad you liked it :)
Perfect Saturday evening chill off moment video ...
Your thumbnail art just hit another level! It looks great
Yay! I'm glad you like it
Thanks very entertaining. This is another one of my fav movies. Saw it in the theater as a kid. Loved the Princess Bride reference.
This would have been awesome to see on a big screen
Seen this movie a dozen times, never noticed the air booty squeezing bandit😭
Thanks, RedEye😀
I'm in tears, and embarrassing myself on a train. I'll get you RedEye review
Lol I'm so sorry :)
OMG the final clip of this video gets me every time, so funny
could’ve swore the legendary Bart Conner also had an action movie like this, but can’t find anything other than his role in the movie “Rad” which is another epic 80s thrill ride
Now imagine this movie, with Chuck Norris. With Steven Segall. With Mel Brooks as a martial art movie spoof!
It would be amazing
1985 and I was 15/116. I remember seeing this in a dollar theatre. I absolutely love gymnastics and America, so this movie was a definite must for me. However, I don't really recall anything from it--other than the alley scene. Maybe it's because I went from the extreme heat of San Antonio into the chilly air of the theatre and my brain jelled. From what I've seen it has all of the over-the-top storylines and predictable corniness of an 80s action movie. And that is why that decade ruled!!! #Godblessthe80s
'' The skill of gymnastics, the kill of karate ! ''
I like those Parmistan Bagels they sell at Jamba Juice.
You have the unerring ability to continually select from the movie highlights(?) of my childhood, and I couldn't be happier to have found your channel! Thank you, sir :)
Hurrah! I'm glad you are liking these
Over time i forget this movie exists... and then someone reviews it again. Then its existence hits me like a horse.
The twirl is what makes it parkour. That man is very skilled indeed!
Was not expecting crotch shot in this one, quite the surprise there! Lol
Love the random gymnastics equipment laying around Parmistan. Must be a national passtime. They even gave some to the crazy town! 🤣
Right?! If Parmistan wants to be in the Olympics some day, they gotta start somehow lol
My brothers and I watched this movie countless times on VHS as kids. We thought this movie was SO GOOD 🤣🤣
FanboyFlicks already covered this Gymkata movie and I must admit your review is different but in a good way ;)
I had a blast watching this video, thank you.
I'm so glad you liked it!
It's too bad this guy never teamed up with Chuck Norris, they could have been a totally sweet team
Imagine the amount of awesome hair???
I love these Reviews
So glad! :)
Those Ninjas were so polite to wait their turn one by one while attacking . 😂😂😂
Check out the sequel , “Track and Field Fu vs. the Equestrianinjas”.
This better be real lol
@@RedEyeReviews 😄 Just a goof. I wish it was real, too.
Movies like this just doesn’t get made anymore
Another hilarious review. This is the best channel thank you. Redeye Rules!!!!!
I'm so glad you liked it
YES!!!!!! THE REVIEW YOU NEEDED TO DO and SIR! You Have Done it GymKata!!!! 10 out of 10 Review RedEye!!
Thank you very much
Yeah that's not a hawk, that's an eagle. Which you can tell because unlike a hawk, it's the size of that human man.
Yay you finally made it!
I remember the map they use towards the beginning also has some blatant mistake (Black Sea for Capsian Sea or something).
11:01 I love how he's flexing both arms to hang onto the rope, because his out-of-frame feet are definitely not touching the floor.
And I thought you missed the best line, but you just kept it for the end: "There's just a little anti-American sentiment running around, but I think..." *gets shot with an arrow*.
Lol that line is SO perfect I had to show it twice
I remember watching this as a kid. It was a blast!
Yes!!! Love this movie glad you watched it. Pretty sure RE4 used this village as inspiration
Just like Alexander the Great he brought his formidable Gym-Fu skills to far flung Parmesan! There’s definitely a revenge story for elite athletes in there somewhere, I didn’t get to win gold so I’m a gonna burn down the Mafia!
I need this movie in my life...I must own it.
The Star Wars defence program was a real thing, one of the last big projects of the Cold War
This would be a awesome video game
I'm sure most folks here know about it but Richard Norton was one of the guests on Scott Adkins' "The Art of Action" yt series and he talked in some detail about this film (and other stuff too of course, it's a really interesting interview if you like action/martial arts cinema).
Oh! I should take a look at that
@@RedEyeReviews You don't watch The Art of Action?! There's an ep with Seagal too, but Adkins is too nice to go for some weirder stuff. I love eps with Cynthia Rothrock, Norton, Urquidez...
It’s a must watch for fans of 80’s martial arts cheese. He even interviewed Kurt McKinney from No Retreat, No Surrender (couldn’t find R.J. to interview him, alas) and we got some behind the scenes insights into that classic.
Awesome stuff. 0:09 In honor of the Olympics you'll do Gymkata? You mean the Winter Olympics where gymnastics doesn't feature? ;) 1:00 Present tense? You know Kurt Thomas passed away two years ago, right? 1:35 A gymnast is doing it (a game based on athletic skill) because world-class gymnasts are - surprise, surprise - among the most capable athletes in the world. Plus his special intelligence father had also competed in the game previously and had disappeared without a trace. So there's that. 7:32 They're not ninjas. "Ninjas" with machine guns however featured on the film's poster. 9:17 The first one wasn't fair because they weren't in the same stage as the prisoner - which is why he was immediately killed for breaking the rules. The second one was fair because he was in the same stage as the prisoner as explained in the film's dialogue. 10:24 That was again against the rules, but as you should know, they were intentionally breaking all the rules at that point.
Never seen this but I haven't laughed so hard at one of your reviews! Those crazy town people were comedy gold! Thanks for posting this.
Thank you so much :) I'm glad you enjoyed it. A great comment to start my day off with
Family guy made a reference to this movie when stewie did a cutaway gag about having a style of martial arts that’s basically weaponized gymnastics but it is extremely specific in its requirement of having gymnastic Equipement (such as a pommel horse) conveniently placed where a fight needs to happen. They even call it gymkata and stewie uses it to rescue an Asian princess.
That is hilarious. I'll have to track that episode down
@@RedEyeReviews the episode is called the woof of Wall Street but a clip of the gym kata parody is on TH-cam th-cam.com/video/xvM_aM9fSEQ/w-d-xo.html
This is another one of those classics that I'm glad that you covered. Those parts with the OBVIOUS gymnastic equipment always crack me up!
Thank you SO much for all the hard work you put into these. They just keep on getting better and better! :)
The pommelhorse was amazing lol
I'm so glad you like it!
@@RedEyeReviews I absolutely love it whenever you post up a new video. I've been posting your new videos up on r/humorousreviews to try to get more eyes on it too.
I can't really afford Patreon, being on a fixed income, but I can always share you with the best places I know where people will appreciate you and your style of humor. :)
@@thepopemichael that is very kind of you! Thank you
oh ball's! This is one that's been reviewed by the best of the best on lametube. I do have faith in you redeye, I know you won't let us down but...
Omg, was the inspiration for the Old Spice guy one of the trainers from this movie? You could tell it was his first time on a horse. He sounded out of breath and was watching the horse's every step.
Lol right?! That dude was bouncing all over haha
I remember being 10 years old in 1986 when I was living in Puerto Rico, there was a video club called Top Hat Video, located on Ave Monserrate on the corner of Sanchez Osorio Ave in Carolina, and they had a huge poster for Gymkata facing Moserrate Ave. I wanted to see this movie sooo bad, but I didn't have a VCR back then. However, my best friend at the time, Edwin Gonzalez (RIP), his dad used to rent a bunch of R rated Canon Films, which is where I saw classics like Revenge of the Ninja, Missing in Action 2, The Octagon, and also saw First Blood as well. However, I never saw Gymkata. It seems it was never meant to be.
Once you've seen the pommel horse crazyville fight scene you can never unsee it
fuck yeah! Was hoping you'd do this movie
Ahhh Karabal, on the Caspian sea.
And I was hoping the final battle would be a ribbon dance fight! But all I got were cartwheels and somersaults!
Lol that would have been perfect
Dude I was thinking you should do Gymkata the other day and now here we are. Perfect, bouta watch now !
Great minds think alike
"It's good to be the king"
Glad you got around to replaying where his handler got shot. His scream was epic. He sold the shit out of that
Wow, that parkour move at 7:00 was just off the charts. Who knew that such a cheesy movie would have such talent in it. [END SARCASM]
Wait...at 14:57 we get a mention of the Stars Wars program in Gymkata? Ummm. Okaayyy.
So. maybe in Seagal's next movie that takes place in India, they can mention that chess was invented in India in the 8th century. That would be an appropriate insert. Right?
"Death becomes you."
RER: "Yea, and oats become cereal." LOL!!
Lol yup! It was aaaallll about Star Wars....I guess.
I'm glad you liked it :)
My day just got better!!👌😌
Hurrah! I'm so glad
@@RedEyeReviews 😊😊
Man! I so much remember watching this movie way back in the day when I was a kid, in the late 80s. I was so pumped up about all the techniques and mad moves I had learned by watching it, that right there next morning I tried to take on the two bullies who terrorized our schoolyard. Boy, did I get my ass kicked bad!
Red Eye Reviews, Didn't I tell you this was comedy gold? 🤣
It really really is
@@RedEyeReviews may you can add this to the list: Passenger 57 with Wesley Snipes. The Replacement Killers as well.
Absolute classic as always thanks
Zamir, the villian, is played by Richard Norton who had a very interesting career.
He's an Australian martial artist, stuntman, stunt coordinator, actor, who first got into the entertainment business as a bodyguard for various actors & music stars.
He was the bodyguard for Kylie Minoque & the Rolling Stones among other people and then went to Hong Kong, where he starred in a bunch of martial arts action movies alongside Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, Cynthia Rothrock and Sammo Hung, mostly playing the villian.
He's still in the movie/tv business, working also as a fight choreographer/stunt coordinator behind the camera. (Spartacus tv-show, Mad Max Fury Road)
Jackie Chan's ''City Hunter'' movie, where he plays again the main villain, would be a perfect movie to review on your channel. That's the one with the Street Fighter sequence, where Jackie turns into Chun Li.
When I was a kid this was my favorite movie to go over to my grandmothers house and watch on her VHS. Had me thinking gymnastics was it's own martial art style lol.
Woke up late yesterday and I didn't make breakfast so I saved your video to watch today. The highlight of my weekend is normally watching your video and making breakfast for the fam bam😆 have a good week dude 🤘
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! What was for breakfast?
Great review. Either way this film is super nostalgic for me. The conveniently placed gymnast tools only makes it better cause Kurt Thomas was literally a bad ass of 80's gymnast. Still love this movie till this day!!!
Instead of John Cabot, they should have named his character Jim Kata.
I remember watching this movie with my brother and practicing the pommel moves on the arm of my parents couch. Gotta love the 80’s.
Thank you for doing this movie, I've been waiting for this one for a while. It really is a great one.
Omg LMFAO. Just when I think ur video's can't get any better, you as always proved me wrong again. This was great, needed a laugh.
I'm so glad! This one was a ton of fun to watch.
@@RedEyeReviews just a question. Have you ever tried any "Bollywood" movie's?? Lmao. There is some good, funny one's. If u want any ideas, check out channel called "Corridor crew". They react to the best one's. Either way, what ever you do I enjoy everytime. Have a great day.
Dude I love Mel Brooks and I'm glad that you (probably) do, too. Another great vid. Caught this on VHS at a party in high school a while back. Hilaraious. Fav part is when the handler gets the arrow. Just, out of nowhere.
Mel Brooks is one of my all time favorite directors. I just finished his autobiography and it made me love the guy even more
Richard Norton is an action movie legend
Fun Fact: This movie helped inspire Resident Evil 4 with the crazy townspeople aspect of the game.
Hey, my daughters do gymnastics. So that means they're top notch martial artist. 😂
I know it doesn't work like that. But the people who made this movie believed so.😂
@@umbrellacorp. Well, they could probably kick MY butt. But that's not really a high bar.
(Written before even watching the review) I'm so excited you are doing this movie! I was wondering when you were going to get around to it. I remember first watching it late one night on either TBS/TNT/USA and thought it might be some strange fever dream hallucination because I wasn't really sure what I was watching was real.
(Written after watching the review) That fever dream feeling was definitely generated by the village of the crazy people scene, especially the super long slow-mo and the anachronistic pommel horse. I do love the Princess Bride splicey during the reacts segment, and feel you could have done a splicey with the handler getting shot with an arrow and either the video or just the audio of Lancelot's squire getting shot in Monty Python's The Holy Grail and Eric Idle saying "Message for you, sir.". Also, I feel like during the crazy town compilation, for the guy hanging out the window and laughing it sounds like they took and slightly modified the sound effect of Salacious Crumb laughing - Jabba's Koawakian Monkey-Lizard (I am THAT nerd) from Return of the Jedi.
Yesss... You did it!!
You are seriously looking into my mind’s eye with your movie picks! Love this movie & your reviews.