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Only the Strong (1993)

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Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins

Synopsis: Ex-Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his old high school in Miami and takes on his toughest assignment yet: whipping a group of the school's worst juvenile delinquents into shape. Stevens, a master of the graceful, potentially lethal form of Brazilian martial art known as capoeira,... Ex-Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his old high school in Miami and takes on his toughest assignment yet: whipping a group of the school's worst juvenile delinquents into shape. Stevens, a master of the graceful, potentially lethal form of Brazilian martial art known as capoeira, decides to put the kids through a rigorous training program. The unruly youths improve by leaps and bounds as they gain self-respect and a sense of empowerment through the discipline of the sport. Using their newfound skill, the boys, with the help of Stevens, take on the vicious neighborhood gang that is terrorizing their school -- the leader of which just happens to be an expert in capoeira. [More]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: Mark Dacascos, Paco Christian Prieto, Todd Susman, Geoffrey Lewis, Stacy Travis

Director: Sheldon Lettich

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Dec 16, 2003

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case

Additional Release Material:

  • Theatrical Trailer

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05/30/03
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A movie that exists solely for its fight sequences and to show off its star's muscles and gymnastic grace.

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05/20/03
Stephen Holden
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I expected it to be an obligatory late-summer, mindless, plotless action film. I was wrong. It's a late-summer, mindless, plotless action film with a message. I think I prefer this sorts of film when it doesn't try to preach.

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The film is clumsily assembled and edited, heavy on the slow-mo, and its simplistic story plays like The Kids From Fame armed with very sharp knives.

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Joe Brown
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There's not terribly much more going on in this movie than the physical movement itself.

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If only the plot were a little less obvious, the confrontations a little less cliched.

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I have a sinking feeling that the makers of this film feel it is in some way exemplary and even useful.

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