CORPORATE LINE: The US national team travels to South Korea to compete in an international martial arts competition. Once there, a brash young member of the American squad goes out seeking revenge against the Korean champ who killed his brother in a previous match. Another member of the American team has entered the competition while still recovering from a shoulder injury, and he becomes dangerously distracted when his five-year-old son falls seriously ill.
With this splintering of the squad’s effort, a US win is in serious doubt. Will they recover in time to taste victory?
THE FILM: If you love sappy emotions wrapped up in a karate flick then you’ve barked up the right tree. If you want something that has any sense of reality then you might as well get Karate Kid because Best of the Best is beyond belief.
Best of the Best is flimsy and follows the tried-and-true method of using heartbreak to shoot to the top. Best of the Best runs into a lot of fights that are silly, the cast, although you can’t go wrong with James Earl Jones, is poorly chosen for their respective parts.
FRANKLY: Everything bad about martial art films is played up in Best of the Best. With all the forced attempts at showing heart, mind, and strength miss the mark. Best of the Best is worst of the worst.
+ Charlie Craine
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