wes-connors Handsome, muscular Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas (as Jonathan Cabot) does a routine on the high bar. Meanwhile, a man dressed like he's escaped from a modern hospital runs from horsemen who appear to be from medieval times. The running man is hit by an arrow while Mr. Thomas does a routine on the parallel bars. Believe it or not, the modern Thomas exists in the same time period as the characters in the chase scene. The story takes place in the present, but it moves to a faraway land. Thomas is recruited to go to this "Most Dangerous Game" land and win a contest. He is given an extraordinarily beautiful female partner, Tetchie Agbayani (as Princess Rubali). Thomas flips for her and everyone else..."Gymkata" is meant to combine Thomas's "Gymnastics" with "Karate" as a martial arts sub-genre movie. Thomas and his co-star are very attractive. The emphasis is on action, but the story is very weak. Most of the story involves Thomas being given contrived situations in which to show off his gymnastic feats...The most absurd sequence occurs after the first hour...Thomas is in what appears to be a crumbling old village. Mysterious clocked figures appear in windows and doorways. One male beckons Thomas and shows his firm, naked buttocks. Thomas declines the encounter, which may have been telegraphed by the gymnast's coolness, in an earlier scene, toward a fawning gay attendant. Thomas makes his way to a town center, finds a pummel horse and begins gymnastically taking down people. The crumbling town citizens look like they wandered in from a film hybrid directed by the love child of Frederico Fellini and George Romano. For these approximately 20 minutes, "Gymkata" director Robert Clouse makes this otherwise boring film quite visually arresting...******* Gymkata (5/3/1985) Robert Clouse ~ Kurt Thomas (the bizarre, approximately 20-mintute old town section) **** Gymkata (5/3/1985) Robert Clouse ~ Kurt Thomas, Tetchie Agbayani, Richard Norton, Edward Bell (whole film)

sebarroso The film is an American gymnast who is invited to participate in a tournament in a small eastern town. In that town he has to face many dangers. Movie bizarre, Class B. It is very good for how bad it is. Recommended.I saw it when I was a kid, I saw her again recently with the hope that is as good as I remembered. Do not know what else to write. But IMDb calls me at least 10 lines for each review.Another thing I can say about the movie is how the character is just a bar of gymnastics or other elements of their discipline, it is very real. But I like it.

FlashCallahan Seeing as this movie was released around the same time as American ninja and the ninja was a big thing at this point in cinema life (much like zombies now), I thought Gymkata maybe some random, throwaway movie that would pass ninety minutes easily.It starts of quite good, like some Hard Target style film. There are some ninjas standing around not doing much, and Richard Norton has a lovely mullet, and that's about as good as the film gets.Yes, the main guy may be a fantastic gymnast, but he cannot act, and some of his line deliveries are laughable, on the verge of parody.Whatever the film was about, I really lost interest after the scene where he kept doing back flips to impress some pseudo princess who has to marry Richard Norton. The fight scenes are lethargic, which is odd considering it's integrated with gymnastics, and at one point, there is a village and everyone appears to be literally mental.Dull, and not even worth it for the camp, eighties factor.

joey-rodriguez I remember watching this on a rainy night back when I was a little boy in Guadalajara, Mexico. I started watching it a few minutes after it started, I was channel surfing while making me a cold glass of chocolate-milk and getting ready to have me some strawberry glassed cookies.I was about ten or eleven years old, before I knew it my mouth was wide open and I was submerged into the movie. The fights seemed so violent, I felt supportive of the tiny American competitor and it was turning into one of those magical and rainy movie nights.I am one of those "dudes" that rent this movie often, although it is not a gem of cinematography I still enjoy the violence and craziness of the movie. My favorite part has to be "the village of the damn", if you have seen the movie you know what I am talking about. I remember having nightmares about that place, I wouldn't mind having to go thru it as long as I have a AK-47. If you have not seen it I recommend it, just don't expect a blockbuster.