Savate

A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a rich landowner. To help the farmers, he offers them his "Savate" (French kickboxing) skills. Contains a lot of fuzzy but stupid plot, but can't believed. A killed person can live again, bad effects, stupid character, etc. Setting of place is enough, but lighting effect is too shiny. I only can see a little view. And again, too stupid plot. The movie title looks different with the plot. This film just waste my time.

A Spaghetti western with Martial based on a real character Joseph Charlemont and real events (Serving as an officer in the French army in Mexico in 1865), who was one of the creators of the French Kick fighting Savate. A powerful martial arts movie, in the wild west with good acting light entertainment with some very good fighting scenes.

Directed by Isaac Florentine (the guy gav martial arts fans Boyka n Undisputed series). I first saw this in the late 90s on cable tv. Fans of martial arts can watch it once. Enough action to satisfy martial arts. The lead guy Oliver Gruner is a talented martial artist. The epic fly scene shudnt b miss by anyone. Bad acting by Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser movies). James Brolin looks as if he doesn't kno what he is doing. Some cool sun soaked settings for western fans.

I will admit that this is not the best film to ever be made, yet it is still one that is worth seeing more than once (personal opinion). The plot is a little bit on the dumb side: a French soldier acting like he's Clint Eastwood, a martial artist fighting people in the 1860's Texas. That does not, however, keep the viewer from being entertained in a slightly dumb way. The good thing is that Oliver Gruner is a talented martial artist (even if his films are mostly cheap stuff done to pay the mortgage) and his acting is not that bad (I've seen PLENTY worse). Overall, a decent film, not a waste of time and money to watch.

Savate is an exciting, over the top B-flick that borrows heavily from Once Upon A Time In The West, Kung Fu, and Bloodsport. It's no brainer action at it's finest! Olivier Gruner is a French Legionnare wandering the old west tracking a sinister German fighter played by Marc Singer. Gruner comes to the rescue of a group of homesteaders threatened by land baron R. Lee Ermey (another entertaining performance) and agrees to represent them in Ermey's fight tournament. Marc Singer is entertainingly cartoonish and pretty menacing as well. The final showdown between Gruner and Singer is quite exciting. The score steals a few ideas from Ennio Morricone and a flashback scene is a blatant knockoff of Once Upon A Time In The West, but there's enough action to satisfy reasonable martial arts and western fans.