Is it just me, or they're always showing that Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Bloodsport" on the dark depths of nighttime basic cable? Like so many martial arts movies, it's heavy on the flashbacks, especially the training montage where the lead actor overcomes intense pain and rigor at the hands of a stern martial arts master living alone in the country to ultimately become a badass (well, actually, in "Bloodsport," the master is a family man who takes the troubled young Van Damme in as his son--also a common theme).
Also, like so many fine action movie soundtracks from the 1980's, there's some pulsing suspense to build tension and some faux-Asian synth stylings to make sure you know it's Eastern tension. Here is my tribute to the training montage of the 1980's. As it builds, see the pieces of a young, troubled man's training come together to meet some long sought goal...
becoming a badass.
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