another of the endless amount of cookie cutter kickboxers fight to the death for the amusement of wealthy scumbags films that there were so many of in the 90s. yknow and the ones created by taking the words death and blood and steel and the words ring and fight and match and cage and putting them in a random generator. saying that though and death match is a pretty good entry in the over used genre and thanks to its exciting fight scenes and the surprisingly good acting of its kickboxer cast. the story concerns two buddies  ex kickboxing world champion john larson (played by pug faced middleweight kickboxing champ ian jacklin and probably previously best known for his awful performance as the main villain in ring of fire 2) and nick wallace (nick hill and a likable guy probably best known for the role of street fighter sergio in bloodsport 2) who work the l. a. docks loading crates onto ships. one discovery of a boxful of guns and a brief fight later and our two heroes are jobless and propping up an l. a. bar. sensible john larson decides to head north and look for a job while headstrong nick wallace has heard of a guy paying good money for fighters to fight in private kickboxing matches. why should things change. says john and  if you need me and i will be there. predictably enough and it isn not long before nick has gone missing and his good friend is fighting in the deadly ring of death trying to find a lead to his missing buddy. sure enough and there are no prizes for originality here and but like i said before and this films strength lies in its action and its cast of real life fighters and the fairly good performances it manages to wring from them. ian jacklin in particular surprised me. previously i would just seen him as the bad guy in ring of fire 2 and in bit parts in tripe like the steel ring and and i have always been quite amused at how bad an actor he is (good fighter though. ). but in death match and he pretty good. given a decent script and a haircut and he proves himself to be quite the charismatic leading man. and his friendship with nick is very well portrayed. jacklin and hill have a nice chemistry and you really believe these two characters care for each other. enough for one of them to lose a job and travel halfway across the country and risk death to save the other  i wish i had a friend like that. it was also nice to see matthias hues as a villainous henchman with a little more depth than were used to seeing from his many villainous henchman roles. however do not be fooled into thinking he the star just because he on the video cover (with and it seems and his head stuck on the body of michael bernardo from the cover of shootfighter)  he is good while he on screen and but he isn not on much. on the negative side and the film is pretty slow when there no fighting going on and with lots of unnecessary scenes (whats with gangster jimmie fiorello pointless story about his grandfather. ) and and the end fight is disappointingly short and but on the whole i enjoyed it. plenty of fights and most of them good. isn not that all we martial arts really need. and of course eye candy and here in the lovely form of the very pretty renee ammann. all in all and a pretty entertaining kickboxing movie. 
another of the endless amount of cookie cutter kickboxers fight to the death for the amusement of wealthy scumbags films that there were so many of in the 90s. yknow and the ones created by taking the words death and blood and steel and the words ring and fight and match and cage and putting them in a random generator. saying that though and death match is a pretty good entry in the over used genre and thanks to its exciting fight scenes and the surprisingly good acting of its kickboxer cast. the story concerns two buddies  ex kickboxing world champion john larson (played by pug faced middleweight kickboxing champ ian jacklin and probably previously best known for his awful performance as the main villain in ring of fire 2) and nick wallace (nick hill and a likable guy probably best known for the role of street fighter sergio in bloodsport 2) who work the l. a. docks loading crates onto ships. one discovery of a boxful of guns and a brief fight later and our two heroes are jobless and propping up an l. a. bar. sensible john larson decides to head north and look for a job while headstrong nick wallace has heard of a guy paying good money for fighters to fight in private kickboxing matches. why should things change. says john and  if you need me and i will be there. predictably enough and it isn not long before nick has gone missing and his good friend is fighting in the deadly ring of death trying to find a lead to his missing buddy. sure enough and there are no prizes for originality here and but like i said before and this films strength lies in its action and its cast of real life fighters and the fairly good performances it manages to wring from them. ian jacklin in particular surprised me. previously i would just seen him as the bad guy in ring of fire 2 and in bit parts in tripe like the steel ring and and i have always been quite amused at how bad an actor he is (good fighter though. ). but in death match and he pretty good. given a decent script and a haircut and he proves himself to be quite the charismatic leading man. and his friendship with nick is very well portrayed. jacklin and hill have a nice chemistry and you really believe these two characters care for each other. enough for one of them to lose a job and travel halfway across the country and risk death to save the other  i wish i had a friend like that. it was also nice to see matthias hues as a villainous henchman with a little more depth than were used to seeing from his many villainous henchman roles. however do not be fooled into thinking he the star just because he on the video cover (with and it seems and his head stuck on the body of michael bernardo from the cover of shootfighter)  he is good while he on screen and but he isn not on much. on the negative side and the film is pretty slow when there no fighting going on and with lots of unnecessary scenes (whats with gangster jimmie fiorello pointless story about his grandfather. ) and and the end fight is disappointingly short and but on the whole i enjoyed it. plenty of fights and most of them good. isn not that all we martial arts really need. and of course eye candy and here in the lovely form of the very pretty renee ammann. all in all and a pretty entertaining kickboxing movie. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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