| No Retreat No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers(1990) Cast:Loren Avedon,Keith Vitali,Joseph Campanella Loren Avedon and Keith Vitali star as two martial artist brothers who join forces to avenge their father's death at the hands of a Russian terrorist, along the way the brothers chop their way out of many confrontations while rarely breaking a sweat, here's a series that gets better with each entry. No Retreat No Surrender was awful. Of course, but what one finds surprising is that this and No Retreat No Surrender II are indeed worthwhile items, both have excellent actionscenes and both work on their own rock-bottom standards. You can't of course comepare this to a big budget blockbuster like Broken Arrow, but for martial arts actioners this one is excellent in it's regard of simply setting up exciting actionscenes which this one certainly does. Naturally No Retreat No Surrender 3 is flawed, it's shares the common flaw of the genre, it was made on the cheap. Some of the production values are indeed shoddy but Lowe manages to accomplish a lot on a shoe-string budget, upping the energy level and intensity of the fightscenes while also pumping up the villians to comicbook standards. No Retreat No Surrender 3 may not be the best martial arts movie ever made, but for those who miss the days when men beat each other senseless, will find a lot to like here. D.Lucas Lowe. *** |