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Only the Strong

Only the Strong (1993)

  • 0% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (6,691 ratings)

In this off-beat actioner, a former officer in the Green Beret comes back to his old stomping grounds in Miami and, seeing that his high school is overrun by a vicious drug lord, decides to take some of the school's toughest students and turn them into crime-fighting units by teaching them the… More

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PG-13,
Directed By
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1993 Wide
On DVD
Dec 16, 2003

Critic Reviews

  • Stephen Holden, New York Times

    A movie that exists solely for its fight sequences and to show off its star's muscles and gymnastic grace.

  • Joe Brown, Washington Post

    The film is clumsily assembled and edited, heavy on the slow-mo, and its simplistic story plays like The Kids From Fame armed with very sharp knives.

  • Richard Harrington, Washington Post

    If only the plot were a little less obvious, the confrontations a little less cliched.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    I expected it to be an obligatory late-summer, mindless, plotless action film. I was wrong. It's a late-summer, mindless, plotless action film with a message. I think I prefer this sorts of film when it doesn't try to preach.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    I have a sinking feeling that the makers of this film feel it is in some way exemplary and even useful.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Megan S


    Definitely a 90s movie, no more, no less. A good action flick overall. My major problem was the way that the bad guy talked...his voice was terrible, I couldnt take him seriously, I just laughed every time he was on the screen.

  • EightThirty .


    Cool Randomm Movies....Check It Out ^_^

  • Dean M


    Mark Dacascos makes a fantastic performance as a world-class, martial arts champion pits his strength and know-how against juvenile gangs and teaches them self-respect. The martial-arts sequences using the Brazilian Capoeira techniques are exciting to watch, and the story, though… More

  • Chad R


    Mark Dacascos does this triple lindy like spin kick horizontal to the ground - cool shit!

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