Don "The Dragon" Wilson Movies
American athlete Don "the Dragon" Wilson was the WKO world kickboxing champion for three consecutive years. He was also world light heavyweight kickboxing champ for 12 years straight, and holds ten other titles in three different weight divisions. In films since 1987, he has generally been seen in supporting roles in such major productions as Born on the Fourth of July (1990) and Batman Forever (1996). In addition, Don Wilson has starred in such violent action fare as Terminal Rush (1995), Virtual Combat (1996), and the long-running Blood Fist series, sometimes producing and writing as well. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideScreen vets Don "The Dragon" Wilson (Batman Forever, Stealing Harvard) and Bokeem Woodbine (Jason's Lyric, Sniper 2) appear in the chop socky spoof 18 Fingers of Death!, alongside James Lew and Karate Kid mainstay, the late Noriyuki "Pat" Morita. This zany send-up of Asian martial arts films concerns Buford (Lew), a weathered and worn big-screen action star who hits a wall when the big shots axe production on his latest (and most promising) vehicle. Soon, Buford finds himself in the humiliating position of standing on a street corner holding a cardboard sign to advertise himself as available for kung fu work. With no other options in sight, he must wage a martial-arts war to enact vengeance on his producers. Star Lew directs, from his own original script. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- James Lew
Director Joel Schumacher inherited the Batman franchise from Tim Burton and began steering it in the campier direction of the Sixties television show with this third installment. First-time Batman/Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer), in his only outing as the Caped Crusader, is effectively brooding as he ponders strange dreams about his parents' death and escapes his own near-demise at the hands of Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones), a former district attorney driven insane and turned into a master criminal when a gangster throws acid in his face. Meanwhile, as sexy psychologist Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) tries to analyze and seduce both Bruce Wayne and Batman, Wayne Enterprises employee Edward Nygma (Jim Carrey) reacts badly to getting fired, using his self-invented mind-energy device to transform into the super-intelligent Riddler. The Riddler teams up with Two-Face to bring down Batman and drain the minds of Gotham City residents with his device, while Batman gets some much-needed help in the form of circus performer Dick Grayson (Chris O'Donnell), out for vengeance after being orphaned by Two-Face. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, (more)
Don "The Dragon" Wilson from the Bloodfist series is back in another Roger Corman-produced action film. Here, he uses his martial-arts prowess to defend rock-and-roll singer Shanna (Deirdre Imershein) from a vicious serial killer (Mathias Hues). It's filled with stock characters like the "corrupt record producer" (Richard Beymer of Twin Peaks), and the killer is, naturally, a deranged Vietnam veteran. Never one to let a successful idea rest, Corman let director Charles Phillip Moore remake this in the Philippines as Angel of Destruction the same year, as well as funding a sequel, Blackbelt 2: Fatal Force. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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- Don "The Dragon" Wilson
Kickboxing champion Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in Bloodfist. In time-honored fashion, Wilson arrives in Manila to investigate his brother's murder. There he stumbles upon a sinister secret society which thrives on illegal kickboxing tournaments and ends up in the ring himself, literally fighting for his life. Several sequels later followed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Joe Mari Avellana, (more)
The first of several sequels to 1989's Bloodfist, Bloodfist 2 once more stars kickboxing champ Don "The Dragon" Wilson. This time, Wilson is up against a diabolical Fu Manchu type named Mr. Su (Joe Mari Avellana). Our hero and five other kickboxing experts are kidnapped by Su and forced to do battle against the villain's steroid-crazed henchmen. It's up to Wilson to straighten things out. Bloodfist 2 was followed two years later by Bloodfist 3, again starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Rina Reyes, (more)
Action hero Don "The Dragon" Wilson appears in this third, quickie sequel to Bloodfist. Wilson plays Jimmy Boland, who has been sentenced to a California maximum-security prison for a murder that he didn't commit. When he sees some black prison inmates sodomizing his friend, he flies into a rage and kills the gang leader. The prison warden, in an effort to do Jimmy in, transfers him to the black wing of the prison, where he is sure the black prisoners will dispatch him quickly. This looks to be a safe bet, since the gang member Jimmy had killed was a drug supplier to Blue, the leader of the black prison gang. Wheelhead, a white inmate and leader of a group of white supremacists, takes Jimmy under his wing and offers Jimmy support if he joins the gang. Jimmy refuses, preferring to stay neutral. Meanwhile, Jimmy warms up to his cellmate Stark (Richard Roundtree), and Stark invites Jimmy to join a multi-racial group of prisoners who tend the rooftop prison garden. Jimmy has managed to maintain his neutrality, but at a price. Now both Blue and Wheelhead want to see him dead. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Richard Roundtree, (more)
In this martial arts thriller, a repo man accidentally brings back the wrong car and finds himself in deep trouble with the LAPD, both national security organizations, and a ring of international gun runners. When someone kidnaps the repo man's daughter, he uses his fists of fury to get bloody revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
An FBI agent finds himself the target of both his agency and arms dealers when his undercover gig is found out and he loses his memory after an attack. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide
When terrorists threaten to blow-up the planet with stolen nuclear weapons, only kick-boxing ace Don "the Dragon" Wilson is capable of stopping them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Catya Sassoon, (more)
Kickboxing champ Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action-drama as Jim Trudell, who, one night, comes to the rescue of a beautiful woman being attacked by a gang of toughs. However, Trudell's benevolent act earns him the enmity of a group of corrupt cops, and he soon finds he's been framed for a murder he didn't commit. Trudell now has to keep himself alive as he tries to clear his name, but the cops who set him up didn't count on just how tough and resourceful Trudell could be. Bloodfist 7: Manhunt also stars Jillian McWhirter and Jonathan Penner. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson
Originally titled Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill, but released as Hard Way Out, this low-budget, martial arts actioner was filmed entirely in Ireland. It is the story of a quiet high school math teacher whose milque-toast demeanor masked a secret profession as a CIA agent that for 15 years took him away on "business trips." In his new guise, the teacher (Don "the Dragon" Wilson) spends his free time trying to get closer to his 18-year-old son. Unfortunately, his secrets are exposed when renegade agents decide it's time to "eliminate" him. With only his hands, feet, and superior knowledge of martial arts, the instructor is forced to defend himself and his son from certain death. The film's climactic fight is a battle to the death aboard a ship. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Jillian McWhirter, (more)
The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), Born On The Fourth Of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by enlisting with the Marines to fight in the Vietnam War. Once he is overseas, however, Kovic's gung-ho enthusiasm turns to horror and confusion when he accidentally kills one of his own men in a firefight. His downfall is furthered by a bullet wound that leaves him paralyzed from the chest down. He returns home, spends an appalling, nightmarish stint in a veterans' hospital, and follows an increasingly disillusioned and fragmented path that ultimately leaves him drunk and dissolute in Mexico. However, Kovic somehow turns himself around and pulls his life together, becoming an outspoken anti-war activist in the process. The film is long but emotionally powerful; many consider it Stone's best work and Cruise's best performance. Both were nominated for Oscars, as was the film itself, but only Stone, who co-wrote the film with Kovic from the latter's book, won for Best Director. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, (more)
When a high-class call girl witnesses a brutal murder with the potential to shake the police department, the state department, and the entire criminal underworld, it's up to two rival cops to see that she survives at all costs in this bullet-riddled action entry starring Fred Williamson, Gary Busey, and Don "The Dragon" Wilson. The most powerful men in the city have committed what they thought was the perfect crime - but there was a lone witness to their diabolical misdeed. This isn't your typical mob hit, but an assassination that has the potential to implicate some of the most powerful men in the city. Tyler and Yordan are two cops that have never seen eye to eye. Now, in order to ensure that this crucial piece of evidence not be snuffed out in a hail of gunfire, Tyler and Yordan must work together to protect their witness from a virtual army of assassins. Trust isn't a strong point with these two policemen, however, and in addition to keeping their charge out of the crosshairs the pair must constantly keep up their guards lest one of them turns out to be the informant who seems to be tipping off the triggermen to their every move. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Gary Busey, (more)
Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this futuristic action thriller. A new breed of robotic crime fighters called Cyber-Trackers are given the powers to be judge, jury, and executioner, finding lawbreakers and killing them without trial. But when a secret service agent (Wilson) makes the mistake of challenging the wrong folks, he becomes the next target of the cyber-trackers. With the help of a group of underground radicals, the agent hatches a scheme to eliminate the killer machines and bring justice back to the people. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Richard Norton, (more)
In this sci-fi thriller, the cyborg duplicates of a government agent and his wife, a news journalist, revolt and frame their living owners for murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Stacie Foster, (more)

- 1990
- R
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This confused sequel -- bearing many names in the credits: Delta Force 2, Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection -- to the first Delta Force movie lacks the nightmarish collection of guest stars gracing the first film, i.e. Hanna Shygulla, Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, and Joey Bishop. Chuck Norris, however, returns as Col. Scott McCoy, a man in a blue funk because notorious drug dealer Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) arranged to have McCoy's partner and his partner's wife and baby brother killed. Cota has also kidnapped three DEA agents to boot. Even without Lee Marvin, Col. McCoy wants to enact biblical vengeance upon Cota and his cartel. As a result, McCoy and his marines travel to the Latin American dictatorship of San Carlos. There they destroy half of the country's cocaine supply and proceed to search out and destroy the evil Cota and his minions. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, (more)
This sci-fi actioner is set in a future that is ruled by technology and gigantic corporations. It centers on a woman's attempts to solve the puzzling murder of her husband, a prominent engineer who has found out far too much about a company that has been dealing in valuable human body parts. To assist her search, the wife hires kick-boxing "cyberon" (the former android police force that guarded the corporations) bounty hunter Walker to help her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
The animal movie Hollywood Safari features a case of mistaken identity. Kensho, a trained lion used on film sets, is mistaken for a mountain lion that has killed people after he becomes separated from his handlers and goes into the wild. Troy and Jane, the animal trainers who control Kensho, realize what is happening and must, with the help of their sons, stop an overly enthusiastic deputy from killing the wrong creature. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- John Savage, Ted Jan Roberts, (more)
- Starring:
- Robert Patrick
Join fighting legends Don "The Dragon" Wilson and Eddie Bravo as they step into the ring to introduce fifteen brutal bouts of hand-to-hand combat in this release from Brentwood Home Entertainment. Muay Thai madness meets southern brawn when Marvin Eastman faces off against Memphis grappler Quinton Jackson, and when U.S. fighter Todd Medina clashes with Japanese brawler Daijiro Matsui the stage is set for an East meets West showdown where anything goes. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
A brother and sister who are sent to visit their uncle in Los Angeles go on a wild adventure. It seems that good old uncle owes some money to gangsters, and the children inevitably get tangled up in the chase. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
In a post-apocalyptic world prone to a dangerous virus, roving motorcycle gangs replenish their draining blood supplies by abducting helpless females. A would-be victim (Melanie Kilgour) decides to fight back with her friend (William Smith) and two hippie-rebels (Andrew MacGregor and Joe Maffei). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action drama as a tourist who, through no fault of his own, finds himself on the run from a gang of terrorists, international espionage agents, and the police. Accused of a murder he didn't commit, the man struggles to keep himself alive as he tries to clear his name and find the identity of the real killer. Moving Target also features Bill Murphy, Hilary Kavanagh, and Terry McMahon. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Bill Murphy, (more)
In this combination action-horror movie, a kick-boxing vampire hunter (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) takes on various Los Angeles-based bloodsuckers and ends up pursued by their brethren and the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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- Don "The Dragon" Wilson


































