It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

From the producer and director of Bruce Lee's seminal martial arts film "Enter the Dragon" comes this martial arts low-point that decided a deadly combination of gymnastics and karate was the formula for a brilliant new action film. US Olympic gymnast Kurt Thomas travels to a mysterious fictional European country to complete in a deadly tournament that's a mix of Han's martial arts tournament in "Enter the Dragon" and the plot from "The Most Dangerous Game." Overall, this film is a mess, but it's so awful that's it's absolutely hilarious. The way Thomas manages to find high bars and pommel horses in the most unexpected of places is comic gold. Only watch this film for ironic camp value and look somewhere else if you want good fight sequences. Kung-fu film mainstay Richard Norton also appears as the lead henchman.

We have the USA's boycott of the Moscow Olympics to thank for this movie, apparently. Kurt Thomas was a world champion gymnast who suddenly found himself at something of a loose end. The result - Gymkata!I first saw this on VHS in the late Eighties, and revisiting it brought back lots of good memories. An era when anyone with a few flashy kicks and a mullet could be the star of a martial arts turkey.The premise is silly, the acting often poor (especially our hero) and the convenient placement of Gymastics equipment is laughable.However, Tetchie Agbayani is gorgeous, the village of crazies really is pretty crazy and there's plenty of action to keep things ticking over once our hero arrives in Parmistan. The film has also had some money and effort thrown at it, so it doesn't look like a straight-to-video potboiler.Not a great movie, but a really enjoyable one.

this funny movie on TNT a bit.. called Jim Kata, or some crap. I had seen just one part of that movie before, and this guy was like on this gymnast beam thing, and spinning around and kicking all these poor people, and I demanded my sister look really quickly, but she didn't come that instant, and missed that funny fight scene ,so no whenever we see that movie on TNT, we have to watch it, because the guy beats EVERYONE up, and he is some mullet guy who is just some gymnast, and it's like some conspiracy movie based in India, and everyone gets shot for no reason. It's hilarious, it's almost like one of those movies the guys on Mystery Science Theater would make fun of, it's just ridiculous....... one of the guys' partners turns on him, and points a gun at him, then this guy pops out of the shadows and machine guns that guy, and is like "this is the secret service!", and Jim Kata just shrugs and says "whatever".. lol..

During the early 1980's, Kurt Thomas was something of a hero in the United States. Inevitably, men in his position get offered film roles that exist solely to capitalize on that. I have no idea what Thomas was paid to make this film, but I would have to be paid a big heap of money to agree to make a national fool of myself in a motion picture. The film is obviously derived from "Enter The Dragon," as are most martial arts pictures. Only instead of a real martial art, they concoct an absurd new martial art, accurately described by one critic as "a cross between Kung Fu and break dancing." A gymnast (Thomas, of course) is hired to rescue some damsel in distress from an impenetrable fortress, yet every room has a prop that is exactly what Thomas needs to kick the assistant baddies. Of course, he fights his way to the lead villain, and of course they have a fancy-dancy fight, with an ending that will surprise only those who have never seen a martial arts film. There are touches which nostalgic types will like, particularly the mullet haircuts of Thomas and many of the male co-stars have. But the only reason to watch this film is if you have a grudge against Kurt Thomas, who now wishes he had never set foot on the film set.