Ring of Fire
Ring of Fire
R | 18 December 1991 (USA)
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Johnny Woo is a Chinese doctor who has given up fighting in the ring. His brother is a teacher at a kickboxing club. When Johnny falls in love with Julie, whose brother is a teacher in a rival kickboxing club, tension begins to build...

Reviews
Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable
Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.
Bezenby There's racial tension on the streets and what can build those bridges? Lengthy talks? Kickboxing? How about accidentally stabbing an innocent bystander? That seems to work, but it takes a long time to get there.Don "Draygo's guilt" Wilson is Johnny (Cash), an ex-kickboxer from the streets who is now a doctor patching up kickboxers at his local hospital. Seems like tension arising amongst the Chinese kickboxers and a bunch of white kickboxers who can't seem to tell the different between Japanese, Chinese or Vietnamese folk. One of the white guys is played by Gary Daniels, who does his patented 'doing the splits' thing, only this time he does it at a forty-five degree angle! The other two white guys of note are Chuck and Brad. Now Chuck is going out with Brad's sister but after a change meeting at a Chinese restaurant Brad's sister now has the hots for Johnny, and vice versa, and this is where the film spends a lot of time being a romance instead of a kick arse nineties martial arse movie. Do I need to point out that these guys are racialists and aren't happy that Brad's sister is hanging around with a Japanese Chinese Vietnamese guy? More tensions arise when Tommy, Johnny's cousin, is all set up to fight Brad and Johnny says the best way to get Brad to back off is to make the fight as dangerous as possible by using gloves with glass on them. How do you think that turned out for Tommy? Couldn't you have just called the police there Johnny? This all heads towards a showdown at the end but I signed up to see Don "The Don" Wilson knock folk out with his feet. Too much romance, not enough fighting – the sequel is much better by the way.Mad props however for this being the only film I've seen where a Chinese guy pees on Gary Daniel's head – I bet Jackie Chan wishes he thought of putting that in City Hunter!
kurciasbezdalas This is probably the best Don Wilson's movie. The plot was even too good for a kick-boxing movie and also a good directors work. The fighting scenes were sometimes great and sometimes getting to slow and not taking itself seriously but that's OK because it still was enjoyable. There were also a few funny moments and that appeared unusual to me because usually this kind of movies are taking itself too seriously and even if they try to joke it's just doesn't work. I rated it 10/10 because as a 90's American martial arts movie it was surprisingly good. Not like many other this kind of films, this one really has a plot, now that's a big plus. The movie may look sometimes naive but that's OK if you like 90's American martial arts films you should watch it.
bronsonskull72 Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars as Johnny Wu a doctor who is torn between a gang war among his family and Julie (Maria Ford) the girl he loves in this downright horrible chop socky actioner which fails to even get Wilson in an action until the final 10 minutes.
The Bronson Fan Warning may contain spoilers. If you are a martial arts fan i would say avoid this movie at all costs, but if your looking for a real turkey to watch then you have come to the right place. The movie is about a bunch of white and asian guys fighting it out in an underground street fighting ring along with some badly acted racist cop who seems to harass everyone. All is well till one of the asian guys cousins (Wilson) starts to date one of the white guys sister. After many lame street fights terry woo dons cousin is killed and of course he has to take revenge in a typical fight against his killer Brad. Wilson beats him but his chick gets hurt in the fight and he being a doctor helps her and then walks of in the distance to Ring of Fire 2 and even worse movie. As far as wilson goes i would say he acted fairly well for a kickboxer but overall the movie is much to slow with the love story that drags on forever. Even the fights in the movie were much to fake even for a martial arts fan. The gang fight in chinatown is enough to make anyone bust a gut after seeing the way everyone is fighting it out and no one even gets hurt. what will make you laugh is the late 80's early 90's clothes everyone is wearing, Zubas, and the mullet and jerry curl haircuts...gimmie a break.