<?xml version="1.0"?><movie country="United States of America" originally_available_at="1988-04-29" tagline="The true story of an American ninja." title="Bloodsport"><originally_available_at country="US" originally_available_at="1988-04-29"/><runtime country="US" runtime="92"/><summary lang="en" summary="&quot;Bloodsport&quot; follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur."/><title lang="en" title="Bloodsport"/><imdb_ratings audience_score="68" source="imdb"/><ratings audience_rating="Upright" audience_score="75" critics_rating="Rotten" critics_score="48" source="rotten_tomatoes"/><genre genre="Action" lang="en"/><genre genre="Thriller" lang="en"/><genre genre="Drama" lang="en"/><genre genre="Sport" lang="en"/><actor name="Jean-Claude Van Damme" role="Frank"/><actor name="Donald Gibb" role="Jackson"/><actor name="Leah Ayres" role="Janice"/><actor name="Norman Burton" role="Helmer"/><actor name="Forest Whitaker" role="Rawlins"/><actor name="Bolo Yeung" role="Chong Li"/><actor name="Roy Chiao" role="Tanaka"/><actor name="Philip Chan Yan-Kin" role="Captain Chen"/><director name="Newt Arnold"/><content_rating content_rating="au/R 18+" country="AU"/><content_rating content_rating="br/16" country="BR"/><content_rating content_rating="ca/14A" country="CA"/><content_rating content_rating="de/18" country="DE"/><content_rating content_rating="dk/15" country="DK"/><content_rating content_rating="es/13" country="ES"/><content_rating content_rating="fr/Tous publics" country="FR"/><content_rating content_rating="gb/18" country="GB"/><content_rating content_rating="hu/18" country="HU"/><content_rating content_rating="it/T" country="IT"/><content_rating content_rating="nl/16" country="NL"/><content_rating content_rating="no/18" country="NO"/><content_rating content_rating="nz/R16" country="NZ"/><content_rating content_rating="R" country="US"/><content_rating content_rating="pt/M/16" country="PT"/><content_rating content_rating="ar/13" country="AR"/><content_rating content_rating="mx/C" country="MX"/><content_rating content_rating="pl/18" country="PL"/><content_rating content_rating="se/15" country="SE"/><content_rating content_rating="sk/15" country="SK"/><content_rating content_rating="ua/16" country="UA"/><content_rating content_rating="ie/18" country="IE"/><content_rating content_rating="is/16" country="IS"/><content_rating content_rating="kr/12" country="KR"/><content_rating content_rating="sg/NC16" country="SG"/><content_rating content_rating="in/A" country="IN"/><content_rating content_rating="tr/15+" country="TR"/><content_rating content_rating="il/16" country="IL"/><content_rating content_rating="za/16" country="ZA"/><review critic="TV Guide Staff" freshness="rotten" link="http://movies.tvguide.com/bloodsport/review/127277" publication="TV Guide">Bloodsport is strictly for martial arts buffs; little is offered here in the way of plot, dialog, or acting.</review><review critic="Dave Kehr" freshness="rotten" link="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-04-22-8803100931-story.html" publication="Chicago Tribune">The contest format is hopelessly repetitive and inert, the characters would seem underdeveloped in a comic book, and the restricted setting ensures that the action will never develop any real scale or velocity.</review><review critic="Caffeinated Clint" freshness="fresh" publication="Moviehole">Enough martial-arts to fill a sushi box</review><review critic="Alex Sandell" freshness="rotten" publication="Juicy Cerebellum">Scary to think that a movie this bad could make anyone a star.</review><review critic="Scott Weinberg" freshness="rotten" publication="eFilmCritic.com">Lotsa chop-socky and basically nothing else.</review><review critic="John J. Puccio" freshness="rotten" link="http://www.dvdtown.com/review/bloodsport--timecop/blu-ray/8448" publication="Movie Metropolis">Van Damme may have been an excellent martial artist (he had fought as an amateur and professionally for several years before entering the movies), but he was no actor.</review><review critic="Leonard Klady" freshness="rotten" link="http://articles.latimes.com/1988-02-29/entertainment/ca-118_1_film-reviewer" publication="Los Angeles Times">Hacking through the jungle of cliche and reservoir of bad acting in Bloodsport are some pretty exciting matches.</review><review critic="Felix Vasquez Jr." freshness="rotten" publication="Cinema Crazed">A campy Van Damne actioner fit for lovers of B films.</review><review critic="Fred Topel" freshness="fresh" publication="About.com">Classic Van Damme. Fighting, fighting and more fighting.</review><review critic="Luke Y. Thompson" freshness="fresh" publication="New Times">Proudly plotless in a way that other low-budget actioners ought to emulate more often.</review><review critic="Mike Massie" freshness="rotten" link="https://gonewiththetwins.com/bloodsport-1988/" publication="Gone With The Twins">It may be focused rather single-mindedly on ruthless hand-to-hand combat, accentuating muscly he-men who are often shirtless, but the repetition isn't too bad.</review><extra adaptive="true" bitrates="80,212,450,750,1500,2500,5000,8000" dts="false" duration="99" iva_id="1673" lang_code="0" originally_available_at="2014-10-16" primary="true" subtitle_lang_code="-1" thumb="https://metadata-static.plex.tv/extras/iva/1673/91cd8124681894cfff5abf344549fd1d.jpg" title="Bloodsport" type="primary_trailer"/></movie>