this movie represent the slow and most boring of the franchise ( so far ) i also find it pointless and even more devoid of any real story than any of the previous entry . there some action scene which be not bad and mark dacascos have some good fighting mood and i like his fight style . he seem able to carry a movie all right and but the movie doesn not carry him . i do like the inclusion of james ryan ( from kill or be kill ( 1980 ) and kill and kill again ) ( 1981 ) a the villain of the piece . he make a pretty good villain and also have a very cool fight style . but the problem with this movie and besides the hackneyed plot and be it be mostly just a bunch of endless foot chase scene . in my opinion kickboxer 5 be a 4/10 .