Bloodsport (1988) - Jean-Claude Van Damme - Movie Review 

The Mentos bit was 100% perfection...bravo sir, bravo.

I genuinely love Van Damme and part of it is the way he's embraced the ridiculousness of his earlier films now he's older. Quite a few of his newer stuff is close to parody and the guy clearly has a sense of humour and is very self aware. He's literally the polar opposite of Seagulhead with his almost permanant frown. Even when Seagal has spent years slating Van Damme as he does basically anyone Van Damme just responds by making a joke about how he doesn't think Steven likes him which is a shame but he'd happily make a movie with him and thinks he has good charisma. Jean Claudes real name is Jean Claude Cammile Francois Van Varenberg. He changed it because he wanted it to sound more like wam bam. Also hilarious and brilliant.

The actor playing JCVD as a kid was exceptional. "You mean you're not going to call the cops?" I've laughed at that line for decades.

Thanks for this. Van Damme is like the more likeable version of Seagal. BLOODSPORT is one of my favorites of his. The big guy is Bolo Yeung. A Chinese martial arts actor and stuntman. The guy has been around for decades. I am sure Bruce Lee fans recognize him from ENTER THE DRAGON. He was also in another Van Damme film named DOUBLE IMPACT.

I’m not ashamed to say it. All my major life decisions were made based on Bloodsport.

van damme has starred in many of my all time favorite "you can rewatch this and still have fun" movies.

That Mentos “commercial” is hilarious! Whoever did that is a genius!

I was a kid when I saw the brick breaking scene. I nearly fell off the couch with excitement

I was born in 1988, when this movie came out. As a child I watched it again and again on old VHS. Thanks to it I started do karate when I was 10 years old. And 13 years after my start I became World karate champion. :) I know that this movie is little bit funny in the way it is done, but for me it means litterally whole world :)

Bloodsport has arguably my favorite soundtrack (OST) of ALL TIME!!!! The music is a 10/10. One of my favorite films also

Van Damme doesn't get enough attention from reviewers. you should make a series :) Cant wait for Double Team.

Fun Fact: Bolo Yeung (Chong Li) was 53 years old when he played the antagonist of this film. On top of his martial arts film career he was also a champion bodybuilder. The name "Bolo" was a nickname he got from his character in Enter the Dragon. Supposedly Bruce Lee loved the name and continued to call him Bolo, hence why he kept the nickname. Seriously, Bolo Yeung is a physical phenom in his own right. The man was more fit in his fifties than most of us probably are in our late twenties! XD

Fun fact: the guy to Van Damme’s right in that Breakin’ dance scene is his trainer/buddy who later played Tong Po in Kickboxer. Now kick the tree.

Frank Dux legally changed his name to Steven Segal.

This is one of my favorite films. I've watched this gem a zillion times.

I have to be that ONE guy, Van Damme also starred in No Retreat No Surrender a few years before Bloodsport and a few after Breakin' just thought I would get that out there because his role in NRNS was highly underrated no matter if it was dubbed on not lol. Great video btw! Your narration is absolutely wonderful and to review a movie like Bloodsport the way you did, is just plain and simple talent!

gotta do the holy trinity of jcvd movies before any others. bloodsport, kickboxer and lionheart

Funny that he and this movie helped inspire Mortal Kombat even having himself personified as Cage, yet we would get JCVD in Street Fighter instead.

Just imagine ... how COOL it would be if you were to open your front door to an abrupt "WAHHHHHHhhhhh!" And it's Jean Claude.

Dude my English teacher did the music for this movie. F'n loved that guy.

Van Damme: i've overcome extreme training with an intense gaze Shidoshi: you're paying for that pulley

This is the masterpiece and there is nothing to be added. Tailor made, once and forever. No more of such movies are produced.

I just watched this movie for the first time and it is awesome. And that Mentos bit made me laugh so hard. I have the stomach flu so I feel like crap, I really needed that laugh.

Caught this moment on my second viewing of the review: "It's totally not a real thing...that anybody can do." Brilliant.

The original "Menthos"-Commercial with Jean-Claude and Forest !!! Je vous remercie!

Holy shit you had me ROLLING with the Mentos bit😂😂😂

I was actually getting ready to leave a comment leaving a link to the Bloodsport Mentos commercial. lol Good thing I waited till the end before posting.

As a child I believed everything that happened in this movie. You sir, have stolen my childhood.

4:03 What any responsible parent would do when a intruder is in your house holding a samurai sword...unleash your pre teen son on him like a guard dog.

Van Dam's leg cocking after a kick was something that seeped into my sparring after the film.

Damn that mentos commercial at the end was effing hilarious. It actually made me laugh out loud

My favorite fighter is Paco, played by Paulo Tocha. He's the Muay Thai fighter that trades kicks with JCVD in the semi-final match. He's a real fighter and a MT champion.

JCVD has the same amount of syllables as Jean-Claude Van Damme. You’re welcome 😂😂

Bloodsport is classic van dammage movie of all time Jean claude van damme is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING Classic fight scenes that are 2Fast 2Furious and entertaining 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

The Mentos skit is the best thing I've seen in a long time.

I'm just waiting for the last fight and the scream when he goes blind 😂

I have replayed the Mentos commercial 10 times. I can't stop laughing. I might die a happy man! LOL!

The GREATEST Martial Arts film if all time

Holy crap, the Mentos ad at the end is the funniest thing I've seen!! :) :)

Born at the advent of the 80's, favorite martial arts moovie of all time.

Love Van Damme too but he fell into straight to DVD dreck around the same time as Seagal and Maximum Risk was pretty much his last decent film.

Came for the movies, subbed for the mentos commercial!

Man, Frank Dux is a hilarious narcissistic liar and I love his creativity.

That Mentos montage was right on point!

"this dumb shit well let me do anything if I call it training " I laughed so hard I all almost passed out. THANK YOU RedEye Reviews

Damn you, for making me feel old with that Mentos commercial

They made some shootings actually in Kowloon (the "walled city" in Hong Kong, where the sun never shone in because the buildings were so close to each other. It was literally and figuratively a dark place to live. It was destroyed in 1993) and its very rare. (the parts when they go in to the fighting ground) I really like the character of Ray Jackson he is a good guy and a real friend in the full movie. And to the 'I wave a flag" thing - I was a member of our kung fu school's lion dance team. But I never was in the lion (only the best can do that, because the lion is the symbol of the school, and I never was the best) I only played the cymbals. Its not a big thing, but was a big thing for me, so maybe the flag waver guys were the same. They were not good enough for the fight, but could do something for the ceremony. (and they did not risk their life, and that's cool too :D)

This movie is one of the top 3 martial arts movies of all time. Just a phenomenal movie! ❤❤

Dude the mentos commercial was great. Took me back 😂

That Frank Dux part where he breaks the tile below, tho. The host gives so little Fs he actually points to the tile with his foot lmao

Great content as well bud. You definitely got another subscriber. I’ve prolly watched ABIIT 25 of them now. And I very rarely Jist crack up watching videos, but you make me laugh. It’s well deserved. That mentos part was great. Looked like a legit mentos commercial. Haha I REMEMBER when they used to have actual commercials like that in the late 90s and prolly well before that. ANYWAYS, great videos. You make me laugh really hard. Hard thing to do. Funny funny guy 😬

That mentos commercial had me dying

The split on the rooftop edge is his best. Followed by the TimeCop one where they guy gets electrocuted at the same time. 😂

RedEye you're a beast! Thank you so much or doing JCVD!! ⭐💎⭐ It spices things up after Steven "Mind my beer belly" Seagal 😃 Go Jean-Claude Van-Dammit 😂😂😂

Love how Frank is wearing a San Francisco Giants Cap and a New York Giants Shirt in the flashback

That mentos clip was fucking awesome bro! I replayed it several times lol. That was a nice fit for that scene lol. It was such a nostalgia of the 80s!

The kid they got to play young Frank Dux... A San Francisco Giants baseball cap and a New York Giants football shirt... Forrest Dux... "Im goin' to the Kumate, Jenny..."

I appreciate the humor review but this movie is just a special classic for me that will never get tainted. It speaks on some deep level that i've had when I was a kid. It made me take up karate and actually do some sparring. Great film. The music is best for the time. Still listen to it when working out.

The first rule of being an undercover C.I.A. operative - “You never tell anyone that you are an undercover C.I.A. operative.”

Kickboxing is definitely JCVD's 2nd best film so check that one out.

The Mentos bit was pure gold.

Absolutely my favorite JCVD movie and in my opinion the only one worth a damn (no pun intended). The mentos commerical was hilarious. Well played.

The man we've all been waiting for 🙏

On another youtube video somebody made a comment with the name chong li with his picture as his default picture. So I started commenting memorable lines from Bloodsport under his comment and within a day a TON of people did the same and I never realized how many great catch phrases this movie had. As well as how popular Bloodsport truely is even today. Yes the acting/storyline etc are laughable at times but the kind of laughable that makes you love it. Other than Bloodsport my favorite karate hero movie is the Perfect Weapon with Jeff Speakman. Please review that next. Please

Back in the days, here in Brazil, it was common place to translate film titles based either on actors previous success or inspired in similar successes. Sometimes, older titles from an actor or actress famous would suffer from these transactions. For instance, "Back to the future" was a hit and had a direct translation to Portuguese ("De volta para o futuro"). Soon after, some distributer brought Teen Wolf with the excellent title "O garoto do futuro" (, Boy from the future). JVD films would suffer from the same curse: "Blood sport" became "The great white Dragon" (O Grande dragão branco) [anything martial art musr relate to dragons/China/Japan/HK]. The film was a hjt! Right after that, they brought "Lion heart" that became "White Lion" (Leão Branco). And Cyborg became..... "Cyborg - dragon from the future" (Ciborgue - o dragão do futuro). Cheers!

That mentos bit was one of the best .. you are the sharpest

I'd like to think that someone asked the wardrobe department to get the kid a Giants jersey and hat but didn;t specify beyond that, resulting in the SF Giants baseball hat and the NY Giants football jersey. Well done all around.

Oh man, those 80s coke and tren bodies, lean as hell.

He kept the ref behind him. And triple round house to finish Chong Lee, you left out. The BEST part.

The intro song is one of the best workout songs ever

I forgot about that line where Jackson calls out Chun-Li so now I don’t feel bad for him when he getsstomped. Chun-Li looked stumpedLike what did I do to you LOL

"Maybe he already left, went somewhere else. Asia is a big place, you know." "Wow, Asia is a big place. You're correct." I've seen Blood Sport at least a dozen times and never picked up on this line. Now I'll always look for it!

Thank you for the Mentos memories! Fantastic! 🤣

O m god that Mentos reference, growing up in Europe where we had mentos commercial on MTV Europe all the damn time bringing back some fun memories lol

@11:22 Forrest looks way too into the food. Lol. Holy shit the mentos cut was award winning

“Are you Jackson? You look like a Jackson!”

This movie has an amazing score and soundtrack.

At 3:15 is the producer of this movie Mark Disalle I don't think the Kumite is yearly so my theory is who Chung Li killed at last Kumite was Tanaka's son The Janitor in this movie has the worst picture on IMDB. Also the women who are the rich guys dates are credited as "special lady" John Cheung (toon) was in Double Impact Paco was in death warrant. Not sure if Van Damme got them those roles. But for sure Michel Qissi (broken leg guy) was his friend. They both were in 'Breakin' And finally note. Allegedly the fighter at 10:33 is based on Bruce Lee I heard it on some review. It just stuck with me. Maybe it's his attire or how he is stretching before fight. Anyways great review for the best 90 minute movie

Count Dante invented the Dim Mak back in the 60s.

Totally bingeing your channel right now. Great way to spend my day off. Boy he loved any team named giants. Baseball hat football jersey.

The split with the crotch punch is also how Johnny Cage defeats Gorro in Mortal Kombat movie. Death Touch is Dim Make, not Gim Mak

The mentos part was perfect!! 😆🤣😂, those commercials were hella cheesy.

Man you're awesome!!! Never laughed so much over a movie review!! Keep on like this please!!!

Im proud to say i know every line in this movie. I used to watch it religiously as a kid.

I remember when I watched that movie with my older cousins and it got to the part saying it was a true story they called BS on it so quick

The Mentos thing was sensational.

Hey that cop is Roscoe from The Gumball Rally (1976). "Take me to the airport!"

15:55: I once cured myself of a bad case of hiccups just like this.

How the FUCK have I watched the movie break'n so many times , and never noticed JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME in that scene ... And it's not like he was hiding in the background either 😄

The Mentos clip was gold!!!

Timecop would be a great one, And/or Universal Soldier 🔥

The next JCVD movie should be lionheart that's a good one.

6:00 Watching this as a kid, I always got hyped during this scene 💯🔥😎

Am not lying my man there was a cannon movie theatre or cinema in liverpool until the late eighties until maybe 2000! Fun fact Mike Myers Austin powers had a red carpet event for a movie called so I married an axe murderer! He is from merseyside an that was the first cinema he went to! So go cannon!

Thank you for brining the spolight to JCVD's starring role in the international hit film, "Breakin'" which birthed the famed classic "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo". Clearly, if not for JCVD's pivotal role in the original, Breakin' 2 would not have existed and all of us would have had lives devoid of the richness of such a ground breaking classic that defied genres and odds and crossed racial, economical, social, and gender lines and roles. Bravo.

The Mentos commercial was epic!!!!

Love this movie! The Kumite delivers awesome action! It really spring boarded him to success. Also loved the on-location shoots, they really pull you into the setting of the story.

My 4 year old daughter just repeated you and “said kick you in the face” in her cute squeaky little voice lol

This movie is based on a true story, the Easter Bunny told me!

Everything about this movie and the backstory has been disproven 1000 times over. Frank’s entire life story plus the limited was a lie. The guy wasn’t smart either because his “winning trophy“… It was purchased with his home address listed and directly by him. That being said it doesn’t change the fact that this movie is incredible.