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Bookmark this pageOnly the Strong (1993)
Director: Sheldon Lettich
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From Time Out Film Guide
A paean to the Brazilian martial art of capoeira harks back to those break-dancing quickies. The plot is the usual. Louis (kung-fu champ Dacascos) learns kicking ass to samba in Brazil with the US Army Special Forces, returns to Miami to find drug-dealers all over his old high school, kicks ass, converts a squad of delinquents to capoeira, takes on bossman Silverio (Prieto) in an ass-kick-up, and gets the green light for ass-kicking to samba on the syllabus. This martial art requires chaps to go into slow motion a lot and to be ethnically vague about the moves. In this context an average actor like Geoffrey Lewis, playing the defeated old schoolteacher, hums like a dynamo. Avoid like El Plagueo.Author: BC
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- Posted on Apr 09 2009 23:12 I like it a lot
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- Posted on Mar 16 2008 21:39 Love the Movie but would love to find out more about Paco Prieto
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Cast & crew
Director: Sheldon Lettich
Producer: Samuel Hadida, Stuart S Shapiro, Steven G Menkin
Cast: Mark Dacascos, Stacey Travis, Geoffrey Lewis, Paco Christian Prieto, Todd Susman, Jeffrey Anderson Gunter, Roman Cardwell full cast
Duration: 99 mins
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