Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)
2018 film by Dimitri Logothetis
- Released
- 2018
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Dimitri Logothetis
- Screenplay
- Dimitri Logothetis
- Starring
- Roger Moore, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Christopher Lambert
- Running time
- 110 minutes
- Distributor
- Italian International Film, Netflix
- Set in
- Bangkok
Kickboxer: Retaliation is a 2018 American martial arts film directed and written by Dimitri Logothetis. It is the seventh in the Kickboxer film series and a direct sequel to the 2016 film Kickboxer: Vengeance, also written by Logothetis. The film stars Alain Moussi, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Christopher Lambert, Ronaldinho, Mike Tyson, Rico Verhoeven and Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson. Aside from Moussi and Van Damme, Sara Malakul Lane and Sam Medina reprised their roles from the previous film.
Set one year after the last outing in Kickboxer: Vengeance, the plot follows MMA champion Kurt Sloane (Moussi) who is sedated and taken to a prison in Bangkok. There he meets crime boss Thomas Moore (Lambert) who runs the underground fights in Thailand. Forced to fight the champion Mongkut (Björnsson) for his freedom, Sloane is once again trained by Master Durand (Van Damme) who was imprisoned by Moore and blinded. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.
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Facts from Wikidata Q24342065 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.