No Holds Barred

1989

Action / Sport

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 34% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 34% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.4/10 10 7595 7.6K

wrestling sports pro wrestling

Plot summary

Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for, but Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network.

Director

Thomas J. Wright Photo
Thomas J. Wright

Top cast

Marion Guyot Photo
Marion Guyot as Louise
Charles Levin Photo
Charles Levin as Ordway
Jesse Ventura Photo
Jesse Ventura as Commentator #1
John Cameron Mitchell Photo
John Cameron Mitchell as Man in Audience
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
817.85 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 3
1.64 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Fluke_Skywalker 3 / 10

No brains required

No matter how low your expectations are going into this absurd late 80s Hulk Hogan vehicle, it's quite likely to limbo right under them.Hogan is the "star", but he actually gets very little screen time, disappearing for large chunks of the film while the focus is on the villain of the piece played with a "Hey, it's a paycheck" glee by Kurt Fuller. When he is on screen, Hogan struggles playing a character that is more or less the same one he'd played for nearly a decade in the WWF.None of this would've mattered much had the film at least given us some entertaining wrestling moments and perhaps a few good montages set to cheesy rock music, but it can't even seem to do that right.'No Holds Barred' is awful even by the standards of low budget late-80s wrestling movies, of which it may be the only one.
Reviewed by dweilermg-1 9 / 10

* A BIZARRE COMEDY!

To me this movie took place in a parallel universe where pro-wrestling is a real sport. My wife and I enjoyed seeing this movie for laughs and indeed we did find much of it quite amusing. However while many seem to consider Hulk Hogan's acting in this movie quite atrocious I suggest you all do see his role on a Walker Texas Ranger episode as Boomer Knight, an ex-convict who runs a youth center in a gang neighborhood to keep the children from joining the gangs. Walker helps him organize basketball tournaments. The drug dealers try to intervene by kidnapping Boomer. The Hulkster truly showed great acting potential on that most heart-warming episode. Hulk Hogan and Chuck Norris were great together that one time!
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