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2/10
A fat man with a mullet gets robbed by a transvestite mermaid, and then there is a bike race.
lowtaxico22 September 2018
This is the perfect movie for people who do not want to see both karate and warriors. Or six of them. As stated in the title, a fat man with a mullet pedals his bike into the side of some foreign national's limousine. He pretends to be injured and a man covered in mysterious robes with a highly foreign accent gives him $20,000 to not report the accident. The accident in which he didn't get injured. He brings the money back to his friends, who naturally laugh at him and begin tearing the money up for reasons I cannot comprehend. Then he says the money is for them to go to Europe and hands out travel flyers which somehow manifested into his possession.

As you can expect, when they get to Europe they see a mermaid in a lake, and bring all their money and clothes to bathe naked and take photos of the mermaid so they can sell them to the news channels. Unfortunately the mermaid is actually a man in a wig, and an Italian man runs off with all their possessions. Because they are really stupid.

As you would expect, the fat mullet man pretends to be a tour guide and show Americans around Greece. It doesn't work, so they decide to get money from winning a dirt bike race. All these events and scenes make sense to somebody, I guess. They find a broken dirt bike in a girl's garage and somehow repair it with parts that just appear, and they completely fix the bike by using flipping page wipes repeatedly.

Fortunately one of them is a professional dirt bike racer, and he wins the race. Then a very motionless Italian man threatens them and takes their money, which he says they will receive it they can beat him in combat. We're at the 48n minute mark and there has been no karate. This is how great this movie is.

A lengthy and confusing training montage begins, as one of them somehow found an Asian man in Greece who is a master of the martial arts and has nothing better to do than train a random obnoxious American who has appeared. He does all the typical training stuff and learns a special move, and it turns out that, surprise, he must use the special move to defeat his Italian nemesis. He wins, they use the money to go back home, to America.

The movie ends with the fat mullet head kid seeing the foreign limousine, literally running into it, and then getting beaten by its driver. His friends laugh as he is comically beaten to death. The end.

I cannot name a single character in this movie. I do not know who the protagonist was supposed to be. I do not know why the director hired a stunt coordinator who was either drunk or a zombie. The fighting scenes are absolutely horrendous, and punches land miles away from their target who flies backwards anyways. I do not believe this movie had a script. If it did, I would yell at the 12 year old who wrote it.
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4/10
Karate Warrior 6: The Worsening
Bezenby11 June 2020
Finally, for the last Karate Warrior film, director Fabrizio De Angelis decides to change things up a bit by having the action take place on a Greek island. And what action takes place on that island? The same crap that's happened in the last four or five Karate Warrior films; a motorcycle contest, some half-arsed mentoring, and a very low budget face-off with a jerk.

There's no sign of arch-nemesis Joe Carson this time around, so maybe he moved away or killed himself or something. The rest of the gang are still here though: Larry the Karate Warrior, fat fried chicken guy Leo, guy that looks like Larry but is slightly taller and some other guy. Plus Larry's rich girlfriend, but she's not in it much.

As usual, most of the actual story revolves around Leo, who this time finds himself ten grand up when he fakes being knocked over by an African dignitary's limo. Leo decides it's time they got a bit of a holiday and decide on Greece, where everyone know karate and everyone is as big of a jerk as Joe Carson was. This allows director De Angelis plenty of time to suck the fun out of everything by making us sit through Leo and his gang going on a shopping spree, flying to Greece, discuss getting a taxi, then getting taxi, then doing a bit of sightseeing before discussing a buffet breakfast.

The only halfway interesting part of this film is the strange scam Leo falls far when he pay five hundred dollars to take pictures of what he's told is a mermaid, only for the mermaid to turn out to be a guy and Leo turning out to be a moron when he has all his money and plane tickets home stolen! If only there was some sort of contest with a cash prize that Larry can win in order for them to get home. Larry needs a bike, and luckily he's just beaten up two goons that work for a jerk whose ex-girlfriend has a bike. The jerk is called Mustafa, and strangely the highly-camp acting skills of this fellow somehow didn't lead to a career in Hollywood, but it sure provided me with a lot of laughs. Which is just as well as the bit where they all repair the bike goes on forever. The ex-girlfriend, Eleni, starts making goo-goo eyes at Karate Warrior, but he stays loyal, even though Eleni is definitely an upgrade.

All this staggers lamely towards the showdown, although Karate Warrior's got to bring in his mentor, his girlfriend, and father David Warbreck in order to bet it together long enough to beat up Mustafa (who hilariously says "Prepare to be killed" in the lamest, least threatening voice ever). I'll tell you another thing; Mustafa kicks the crap out of Karate Warrior and decks him several times so that Karate Warrior can lay there staring at his father, but when Karate Warrior decks Mustafa once, he's counted out and Karate Warrior wins. I don't think that referee was being impartial and reckon that someone slipped him a few drachma before the match started.

And thus concludes my pointless trail through the most worthless film series in cinematic history. As a precaution against any other Karate Warrior films being made, the Italian government executed most of the cast and crew.
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5/10
There's not a lot of substance here - or Karate, for that matter - but the movie isn't awful.
tarbosh220007 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Leo (Daffron) is an overweight college student who runs into a bit of good luck. That's because as he's riding his bike while simultaneously having a snack, a limousine carrying some sort of foreign diplomat cuts Leo off and he falls off the bike. While not really injured, Leo overinflates the situation and the diplomat gives him $10,000 in cash right there on the spot. Leo then takes his buddies on a shopping spree, and then on a vacation to Greece. While in Greece, the boys fall victim to a scammer and lose all their money, so they try a gentle scam of their own - they pretend to be tour guides in order to make enough money to get back home.

Unrelated to pretty much all of this, one day Larry Jones (Williams), who is one of the group of friends, sees an attractive Greek girl being assaulted by some toughs, so he intervenes and beats them up. After saving her, she mentions that the yearly motocross race is coming up, and that could get them the money they need to fly back home. So they all go back to her house to fix up an old, shoddy motorcycle. The guy that wins every year is named Mustafa (Exina).

After Larry bests him, he gets mad and challenges him to a Karate match. He wins that every year, too. Larry gets his girlfriend Betty (Field) and the token family friend/Karate Master Mr. Masura (Goon) to come to Greece to train him. Naturally, it all comes to a head at the final fight, which Larry's father (Warbeck) also attends. Who will be final champion, Larry or Mustafa?

As you may have noticed, there are SIX Karate Warrior movies. This sixth and, to date, final installment in the long-running series was again directed by Fabrizio DeAngelis, using his usual Larry Ludman pseudonym. The above description details the rambling and ramshackle nature of the plot. A bunch of things happen, it all unfolds in due course, but the Karate angle doesn't show up until later, and is just another "thing that happens". We're all surprised when we finally see Larry is even a fighter of some sort. Another element to this is a pleasant, but pointless, Greek travelogue.

There's a lot of ridiculous and silly dialogue, and speaking of silly, the main nemesis of the movie, Mustafa, doesn't inspire much fear. He's thin, waifish, and looks like a more effeminate version of Balki. Karate Warrior 6 came out in 1993, which was the same year as the last season of Perfect Strangers. So it's safe to say that America was in the grip of Balki Fever at the time. DeAngelis, as was his wont, was just capitalizing on it. Balki was from the island of Mypos, which was Greek (?) so it all makes sense. And he fights a guy named Larry, so we finally get to see what we as viewers have been waiting for for so long: Larry vs. Balki.

Fan favorite David Warbeck is in the movie for probably less than a minute, all told, so any Warbeck fans out there, don't go into this expecting him to go around busting any heads. What you do get, however, is one of the friends, Greg (Smith), who looks a lot like the elder Pete on The Adventures of Pete and Pete. In the name department, it's hard to do better than Richard Goon. He plays Masura, and, while training Larry, he calls him, "Larry-san". Larry does something that looks a lot like Daniel's crane move from a certain other movie series.

Finally, it should be noted that the scam the boys fall victim to involves a guy who says they can take a picture with a real live mermaid, and then he steals their pants. That's right, the old mermaid scam. In part, maybe that's why the Karate Warrior series never made it to any home video format in the U.S. after the first one (which was released by Imperial). Maybe someone, somewhere figured American audiences couldn't handle the silliness of volumes 2-6.

Anyway, there's not a lot of substance here - or Karate, for that matter - but the movie isn't awful. It's competently made and there are some funny moments. It just rambles and doesn't have a lot of focus. Are there any Karate Warrior completists out there who have seen all six? If so, write in today.
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6/10
Don't be sad that it ended. Be glad it happened.
BandSAboutMovies15 June 2023
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So many times throughout the. Karate Warrior series, I have watched as the movies move away from karate itself and yet I stay with them. I blame Fabrizio De Angelis, who not only directed this but returned to write the final story. It is with great sadness that I share it with you, as I really wish there was a Karate Warrior 7.

Leo (Scotty Daffron) is the biggest moron you have ever met, yet the Karate Warrior who is Larry Jones (Ron Williams) stays by his side. That proves that he is not just a tough customer, but the kind of good person you want to lead four of six movies and a TV series in your franchise (which is the Italian exploitation version of Community's six seasons and a movie).

While he's riding his bike - bike accidents are to this movie what diamond theft is to Jess Franco - he runs into the limo of a foreign leader. In order to keep his mouth shut, Leo is paid ten grand, money which he uses to take his friends Larry, Craig/Greg and Teddy to Greece because, well, why not? Maybe Fabrizio always wanted to go to Greece in the same way that surely Sergio Corbucci wanted to come to Miami and they both paid for it by making a wacky movie.

Keep in mind as I write what happens in this movie, I invented none of it. I have a great imagination, but by no means am I Fabrizio De Angelis, who I would love to meet but I am also very afraid of. The fear comes from knowing he has the power of a deranged god who makes film series that I can't stop watching and writing about. Between this and the Thunder films, he has taken up more of my life than many of my lovers. He certainly means more than most of them. I am also not the first person who has reviewed this film that felt the need to give such a disclaimer about the veracity of what is about to happen.

After a man dressed as a mermaid is able to con Leo out of his money and the return tickets home. Leo decides to become a tour guide, despite knowing little of Greece, and scamming other people. That's when they meet Mustafa (Rafaele Exina) who is a triple threat: martial artist, motocross racer and gang leader. He's our new Joe Carson, who stayed back home for this final movie.

Mustafa and his young turks are menacing Elena (Gabriella Barbuti, who is also in Sergio Martino's Craving Desire, Tinto Brass' P. O. Box Tinto Brass and yes, improbably The Passion of the Christ), who the gangster claims to own. How does the gang solve this? By putting on a show - a karate show* - and have Larry battle Mustafa, but first, they somehow have enough money to fly Larry's girl Betty (Dorian D. Field and his sensei Masura (Richard Goon) to Greece. Maybe Larry's dad Lt. Alfred Jones (David Warbeck) will come too!

Before the fight, Betty says to Larry, "Make it quick. I want to go home."

This is the fight of his life.

For this movie at least.

This movie also has a Pretty Woman makeover shopping spree at JCPenney.

How does this series end the saga? I mean, at this point, six movies in, it qualifies as a saga. Well, it ends with Leo trying to get hit by another limo when they get back home. These bodyguards, however, get out and trounce him.

That's how a series called Karate Warrior ends.

Not with one last battle.

Instead with a chubby man comically beaten to within an inch of his life.

*Read this as Bob Odenkirk as Van Hammersly.
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