Return of the Kickfighter

Jan 1, 1987

1h 33m

★ 7.2

Back To Hell... Coming Out Alive Means Victory

Overview

The plot concerns a unit of US marines operating in the Vietnam war during 1970, with the movie opening on a raid in a village. After massacring the villagers, the marines steal the villages gold, much to the objection of their Vietnamese translator and guide. Skip forward past the credits sequence; it's now 15 years later, and members of the unit are getting murdered one by one. This leads to the former head of the group, now a high ranking military officer, announcing that the only person who is up to the job of finding out the identity of the killer is an Aussie, Major Brad Cooper.

Genres

Action

War

Production Companies

Carl-Phil Productions

ECM Productions

Return of the Kickfighter Trailers

Cast

Col. Brad Cooper

Richard Norton

Quan Nhien

Huang Kin-Lung

Gen. Brady (uncredited)

George E. Mahlberg

Col. Ted Ryan

Rex Cutter

Bad Brother

Dick Wei

Capt. Anan

Franco Guerrero

Moudares

Paul Holmes

Jenkins (as Henry Stichosky)

Henry Strzalkowski

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2.0

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4.5

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0.0

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7.4

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6.7

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7.0

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6.5

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6.2

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0.0

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5.9

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6.4

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5.5

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10.0

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6.5

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5.2

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5.6

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7.6

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