Best of the Best 1989 123movies

Watch: Best of the Best 1989 123movies, Full Movie Online – Team USA gets rid of personal ghosts while fighting Team Korea in Taekwondo championship. “Adversity overcome” formula with excellent fighting scenes..
Plot: A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country–can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?
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Ratings:

	6.4/10 Votes: 14,228
	33% | RottenTomatoes
	26/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 224 Popularity: 10.105 | TMDB

Reviews:

A Mixture of Fight Movies That Should Not Be Taken Seriously.
There’s a reason why Best of the Best is not at the level of Bloodsport, The Karate Kid, and Rocky. There’s a reason why Best of the Best is not as well known as Bloodsport, The Karate Kid, and Rocky. The answer: Best of the Best is an all-too cheesy copycat of of all three movies. Of course the movies have all drawn inspiration from one another, but Best of the Best is much inferior. But, having studied the martial arts and knowing different movies’ intentions, I liked Best of the Best more than most people. Most people hated it, but not me! Mixed martial arts legend, Chuck Liddell called this his favourite fight movie growing up. It wasn’t that good. Best of the Best is the prime example of a guilty pleasure. That’s why I’m giving it 10/10.

One thing I will give this movie credit for is it is about taekwondo. Most martial arts movies are either about karate or kung-fu, and lately, mixed martial arts. Many martial arts blend in well with each other, but I must give this credit where credit is due. It is about five taekwondo experts from all across America–Alex Grady, Tommy Lee, Travis Brickley, Virgil Keller, and Sonny Grasso (Roberts, Rhee, Penn, Dye, Agresta)– who are chosen to compete against a team of unbeatable Koreans in a full contact fight. Each man must learn to work as a team and deal with their pushy coach (Jones) as well as their own personal demons. Sounds familiar? The main fighters it focuses on are Eric Roberts’ and Phillip Rhee’s characters, Alex Grady and Tommy Lee, whose subplots are actually pretty good. Grady is a widower who must provide for his young son, and Lee witnessed his soon-to-be opponent (played by Rhee’s real life brother, Simon) murder his brother in competition and he swears revenge. Both subplots are good and provide the substance and seriousness that the movie needed. When Lee’s subplot gets looked into more, it actually is heartrending and provides great sympathy for the characters.

Best of the Best features training sequences, fights, and various situations that mirror the movies I mentioned earlier. Also, I mentioned that this was much cheesier. During the final fight scenes at the end, the Americans (good guys) are clad in black and the Koreans (bad guys) are clad in white. From a guy with fight knowledge, i can assure you that the fight sequences are very well done, but the fighters themselves are comical. Sonny Grasso is your stereotypical Italian, Virgil Keller is a hippy, Travis Brickley is a rude cowboy, and Alex Grady has beautiful hair. The Koreans don’t have any distinctive features, but are still funny in how they try to look and act vicious. Tommy’s opponent wears an eyepatch and looks like Snake Plisskin from Escape From New York and LA. Tommy is the only fully serious one. The fights are great and there’s great emotion stirred up. It leads to a somewhat cheesy, but thoroughly wonderful ending.

3/4

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min)
Budget 5000000
Revenue 1700000
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Action, Drama, Sport
Director Robert Radler
Writer Phillip Rhee, Paul Levine, Max Strom
Actors Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (RCA Sound Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Consolidated Film Industries (CFI), Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm