Who is tong po

For many years, fans of the franchise were left with a bad taste in their mouths. Tong Po was still roaming freely and the fifth film in the Kickboxer franchise murdered David Sloane in the opening minutes.

The series went a completely different direction and put the starring role on a young Mark Dacascos. There are many worse people you could choose to star in your martial arts movie but how dare you kill off David Sloane without having Tong Po be the man to do it?

Thankfully for action fans the world over, a recent reboot of the Kickboxer franchise has breathed new life into the evil Tong Po. Now I would contend that Dave Bautista is no Michel Qissi when it comes to playing the role of Tong Po, but you could also choose much worse than having Big Dave in your movie.

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And I actually wondered about that before. Twimyo Jirugi , Sep 17, Michel Quissi is actually Tong Po, what they did was give him a prosthetic face and forehead to make him look more neanderthal like. He played the guy in Bloodsport where Chong Li breaks a guys legs and is left bleeding on the floor. The reason why I believe was that Michel was so unrecognisable that they just credited him as Tong Po.

Although rumour has it I used to work for the film company that made it that it was actually a typo by a Production Assistant. The Quissi's there are 2 brothers i think Michel and Abdul i think are friends of Van Damme and appear in several of his movies, usually as comical background characters or stand ins.

Mushroom , Sep 17, So the credits could be a typo or a bit of a gimmick put in by the makers of the film? Mushroom nailed it. He's absolutely right. Except in Kickboxer 4, starring Sasha Mitchell. Later that night, masked from head to toe, Sloane searches the compound again and manages to locate his wife in a barred sell, but is unable to free her before the alarm sounds. On Po's orders, the guards try to apprehend him, but Sloane escapes.

The tournament begins with several matches taking place. When Sloane as "Jack Jones" is called up to fight, a clever low-key distraction by an old acquaintance, Lando, who is also competing, distracts Po's gaze just long enough for Sloane to win the fight and leave the ring. During another attempt to find Vicky after Lando learns exactly where she's being kept, Sloane is unable to find her since Po had her moved from her original cell as a result of his previous intrusion.

Sloane is then captured by Po, who is surprised to see his old rival. He was lead to believe that Sloane was still in isolation after ruffing up fellow inmates. Lando had also been captured and brutally tortured along with his source of information, who didn't survive.

On the final day of the tournament, Po declares that all fights will be to the death and dismisses several fighters who are unwilling to risk their lives or take them, but shoots them all dead as they depart. The tournament proceeds with even more fighters being killed at the hands of their opponents, until both Lando and Sloane are dragged into the arena.

One of the more sadistic and capable fighters accepts the challenge, but Sloane is able to defeat him. Po calls for more challengers. One after the other, Sloane proves to be more than a match for them. One of the remaining fighters, a small but highly skilled young woman Sloane and Lando had befriended, realizes that Po has been lying the entire time. There is no money. She openly calls Po out as a coward for not fighting Sloane himself.

Her words prompt the other fighters to rise up to fight for their lives against Po's armed guards and Po himself.

Within minutes, the ring is littered with the unconscious and the dead. In the end, only Sloane and Po are left standing. After a brutal fight outside the ring, Sloane defeats Po once again, but Bill takes Vicky at gunpoint giving Po the opportunity to escape. Sloane takes Bill out with a knife throw to his head, freeing his wife. Tong Po hasn't been seen since. Sadly, this is where the original Kickboxer film series ends. Tong Po never faces true justice for his many heinous crimes.

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