Let's be realistic.

Instant Favorite.

Absolutely brilliant

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

BADASS SHOWDOWN sounds like a kick-ass movie for martial arts legend Cynthia Rothrock but in actuality it turns out to be another of those interminable '1313' straight to video productions from schlock director David DeCoteau. The setting is one more that mansion in the hills, where a bunch of buff young guys strip off and spend their time endlessly showering and doing plenty of exercise. The "plot" involves Rothrock hanging around in an extended cameo and writing notes on a clipboard as she appraises their talents. The worst thing about this is the incompetent staging of the fight scenes with the ridiculous dubbed-in sound effects.

Oh my god! Cynthia Rothrock is finally back in the movies again. Yay!!! Hang on, the movie is so shocking she ought to stay away from being in future movies if they will continue to be as bad as this one.Like other previous reviewers stated...Badass Showdown has gay boys pretending to be martial artists and you can tell that they don't know martial arts. Badass Showdown is choreographed/directed and produced by people who don't know martial arts at all.I just don't understand how someone can show such bad acting or why Cynthia would return to movies and appear in a total flop of a film. I am very disappointed. The only time I will write a review is when the movie is extremely good or extremely poor. I would rarely say how bad a movie is. I just want everyone to know that I am telling the truth to save others money or time. I am a major movie buff and can watch almost any movie from beginning to end. I didn't even finish watching Badass Showdown although I consider myself a loyal Cynthia Rothrock fan. Watching the gay boys pose in shower and in bedroom made me expect some soft gay porn to begin but it never did...thank god. My wife after ten minutes of the movie was telling me to change to another. If you are gay, then you might like Badass Showdown.

Well how do I put it, one of my favorite female martial artists brought down to this level, what were they thinking, soft porn for gay men or just a flesh fest for the ladies, acting, well there wasn't any. For a martial arts movie the fight scenes and action were at the best lacking. I was expecting a film that was worth watching, however I found myself fast forwarding to avoid the shower of bad acting and semi-nudity. I find it insulting that the martial artists showed little if any talent in both acting and martial arts, adding insult to injury they have the leading lady as a minimal, non-fighting entity, this from a lady who has been five-time World Karate Champion in forms and weapons between 1981 and 1985.

I'd swear this was gay soft porn. No words really to describe how awful, and I'm pushed to give it one star as that's the lowest I could go.Amateurish at best, no plot and a real letdown for Cynthia Rothrock, 80s action star, to lend her name to this... oh well, I guess she has to have a 'career' after all.Give this a total miss. There is no 'showdown', no fight scenes, only extensive shots of male upper bodies in showers. Hence my description of gay soft porn.Waste of time to view. Waste of words to review unless to warn others from same error I made in watching this.