Kickboxer: Retaliation

Kickboxer: Retaliation
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Directed by	Dimitri Logothetis
Written by	Dimitri Logothetis James McGrath
Produced by	Dimitri Logothesis Robert Hickman
Starring	Alain Moussi Jean-Claude Van Damme Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson Christopher Lambert Ronaldinho Mike Tyson Rico Verhoeven
Cinematography	Gerardo Madrazo
Edited by	Christopher R. Bell Daniel McDonald
Music by	Adam Dorn
Production companies	Our House Films Acme Rocket Fuel
Distributed by	Well Go USA Entertainment
Release date	January 26, 2018 (2018-01-26)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$101,690[1]

Kickboxer: Retaliation is an American martial arts film directed and written by Dimitri Logothetis. It is the seventh in the Kickboxer film series and a direct sequel to the 2016 film Kickboxer: Vengeance, also written by Logothetis. The film stars Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Christopher Lambert, Ronaldinho, Mike Tyson, Rico Verhoeven and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. Aside from Moussi and Van Damme, Sara Malakul Lane and Sam Medina reprised their roles from the previous film.

Set one year after the last outing in Kickboxer: Vengeance, the plot follows MMA champion Kurt Sloane (Moussi) who is sedated and taken to a prison in Bangkok. There he meets crime boss Thomas Moore (Lambert) who runs the underground fights in Thailand. Forced to fight the champion Mongkut (Björnsson) for his freedom, Sloane is once again trained by Master Durand (Van Damme) who was imprisoned and blinded by Moore. The film received generally positive reviews.