Gymkata

1985

Action / Thriller

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.4/10 10 4947 4.9K

kung fu karate east asian lead gymnast

Director

Robert Clouse Photo
Robert Clouse

Top cast

Conan Lee Photo
Conan Lee as Hao
Richard Norton Photo
Richard Norton as Zamir
John Barrett Photo
John Barrett as Gomez
Buck Kartalian Photo
Buck Kartalian as The Kahn
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822.84 MB
1254*720
English 2.0
NR
  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 1
1.49 GB
1880*1080
English 2.0
NR
  
23.976 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by bkoganbing 3 / 10

The great country of Parmistan

Gymkata was the attempt to turn gymnast champion Kurt Thomas into a martial arts film star. It is also an endurance game that the country of Parmistan plays. Outsiders play the game, but no one ever wins in fact no one ever survives from the outside.But Thomas is going to compete for the USA and what's at stake is an early warning system for the Reagan Star Wars program. Located in the Hindu Kush mountains between China, India, and the Soviets it's prize location.Although Thomas got himself a Razzie nomination he's no better than a lot of the martial arts performers as thespians nor any worse. It's a bad film, but not spectacularly bad.In any event Thomas decided wisely that athletics were still a better fit.
Reviewed by AlsExGal 3 / 10

One of the best bad movies of the 80s...

... so if it doesn't bore you, and maybe you have some retro fondness for this era and this film genre in particular, it might be an 8/10 for you.Ludicrous Reagan-era action film in which Kurt Thomas, a real-life champion gymnast, stars as a champion gymnast who is recruited by the government to travel to the west Asian country of Parmistan and participate in the "Game", wherein the contestants are hunted while they try to make their way to the finish line. He must be an expert fighter, so he is trained in combat, which he combines with his gymnastics expertise to create Gymkata, a new fighting style. Once in the game, he must fight the other participants as well as Parmistan's ruler's right hand man, the evil Zamir (D-movie regular Richard Norton). What perils await our mulleted hero as he tries to escape the Village of the Crazies?Co-starring veteran goofball Buck Kartalian as Parmistan's ruler, Tetchie Agbayani as his beautiful daughter, and a few lesser known action regulars, like Bob Schott and Conan Lee. This movie moves from one absurd set-piece to another, and is well worth seeing just for the head-scratching sequence in the Village of the Crazies. Serious film buffs will be unamused, but for bad movie fans, it doesn't get much better. I like that the goal of the hero is to win so that the new Star Wars Defense program can be placed in Parmistan. Incredibly, this was from MGM, just as they decided to throw up their hands and sell out to Ted Turner. Who can really blame them at this point.
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