Who knew I’d be so on the hook for a revamped
Kickboxer franchise? Okay, everyone who’s ever met me knew
that right away. But I am. Kickboxer: Vengeance was pretty
rad, if little more than a rehash of the original. So you can bet I’m amped for
the upcoming Kickboxer: Retaliation, which just dropped a
new trailer ahead of its impending release.
Wait, what the hell? How did I miss this? Apparently the first
teaser trailer (or two) for Kickboxer: Retaliation—the
sequel to Kickboxer: Vengeance, last year’s
Kickboxer reboot—dropped the other day. I knew it was coming,
but it still scampered right on by me. I’m getting soft in my old age. Watch it (them) now.
It took a lot of effort, but I’ve finally moved beyond my
initial shock and outrage that there is a Kickboxer remake
on the way and just accepted that Kickboxer Vengeance is
probably going to be a movie that I’ll be super into. Still a ways off, we’ve
now got our first look at footage, and I have to admit, I’m totally down.
If the idea Kickboxer: Vengeance, a
reboot of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1989 classic Kickboxer,
simply one of greatest movies ever made, sounds like blasphemy, I think we’ll
get along just fine. Still, it’s happening whether we like it or not, and we’ve
got some new looks at the cast.
