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Only the Strong (1993)

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Average Rating: 2.5/10
Critic Reviews: 5
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In this off-beat actioner, a former officer in the Green Beret comes back to his old stomping grounds in Miami and, seeing that his high school is overrun by a vicious drug lord, decides to take some of the school's toughest students and turn them into crime-fighting units by teaching them the venerable Brazilian martial art, capoeira. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

Dec 16, 2003

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All Critics (10) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (7) | DVD (1)

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

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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If only the plot were a little less obvious, the confrontations a little less cliched.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: ReelViews | Comment
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
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There's not terribly much more going on in this movie than the physical movement itself.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Only the Strong

Definitely a 90s movie, no more, no less. A good action flick overall. My major problem was the way that the bad guy talked...his voice was terrible, I couldnt take him seriously, I just laughed every time he was on the screen.

March 7, 2010
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