Bloodmatch

Bloodmatch

Year: 1991

Runtime: 86 mins

Language: English

Director: Albert Pyun

Action

Driven by vengeance, Brick Bardo enters the world’s toughest kick‑boxing tournament to discover which champion orchestrated his brother’s death. Five years earlier a corrupt champion fixed a match that killed his sibling. Bardo now battles the gang of fighters in a brutal, all‑out ring showdown to settle the score.

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In a sun-scorched pursuit, Brick Bardo tracks the death of his brother and corners Davey O’Brien, who fights back but is knocked out and left tied to the boiling ground. Davey reveals that his brother was involved in a fixed kickboxing fight scheme that led to his murder, and Brick presses for the names of those responsible.

Determined to force answers, Brick abducts four suspects—Brent Caldwell, Mike Johnson, Billy Munoz, and Connie Angel—and sets them before a ring at an abandoned arena in Las Vegas. The stark arena becomes Brick’s interrogation room as he plans to navigate truth through violence, one fight at a time.

Connie remembers Wood Wilson, her old boyfriend whom she defeated in an intergender kickboxing match, and the shocking reveal that Wood Wilson is Brick’s brother. The truth behind the vendetta begins to unfold as the ring becomes a stage for reckoning.

Brick announces the rules: the ring will determine who talks. Mike goes first; if he wins, everyone walks free, but if Brick wins, Mike dies and the others face the same fate. Just as Mike nears death, Billy Munoz offers to talk, thinking he can save himself and the others. The bargain falters as Brick gains the upper hand, and Billy’s emotions overwhelm him, leading Brick to break Billy’s back and kill him.

Brent Caldwell steps up next in the brutal sequence. He attempts to lung for a knife on Max Manduke, but a gun is pointed squarely at him, forcing Brent to hesitate. Connie deduces that Brent killed Wood Wilson, and as Brick and Brent fight, a barely breathing Mike crawls toward Connie and hands her the knife Brent had earlier. In the ring, Brick, fueled by a grim resolve, reveals to Brent that Wood Wilson did not beg for mercy five years ago—Brick was there and survived a vicious beating, later having his face altered through plastic surgery.

Connie, meanwhile, reveals the deeper motive behind the scheme: she aimed to accumulate enough money so she and Wood could escape together, but Wood refused to participate. Confronted with the consequences of their choices, she admits she was wrong to choose money over love.

The confrontation reaches its climax as Brick and Connie clash once more. Connie gains the upper hand and, in a final turn of fate, defeats Brick/Wood with a decisive kick to the chest. The ring—once a tool for interrogation—becomes the stage for a revelation that redefines loyalty, love, and the cost of vengeance.

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