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He has trained every thought… every muscle… every nerve… for this moment of truth! The Challenge was co-written by John Sayles and Richard Maxwell, and stars Scott Glenn as an American boxer thrust into a Japanese family feud involving the ownership of an ancient sword. Screen legend Toshiro Mifune, plays a master samurai who trains the American in the ways of Japanese martial arts and culture so that he can assist him in foiling his rich industrialist brother (Atsuo Nakamura). (Kino Lorber)

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angielski An action B-movie that wants to be a modern variation on the samurai classic Yojimbo. The plot is quite similar and there's also Toshiro Mifune as a samurai mentor. While Sergio Leone swapped the original samurai for cowboys in A Fistful of Dollars, his western version of Yojimbo, and Walter Hill swapped the original samurai for gangsters in his western version, Last Man Standing, here some samurai have "survived" to this day and still maintain their traditions. The transformation of the initially ignorant boxer (Scott Glenn) into an old-school samurai who follows the moral code of Bushido is absolutely incredible. Nevertheless, the film offers solid action sequences that dazzle not only thanks to Frankenheimer's distinctive visual style, but also thanks to the solid melee fight choreography by a then-unknown Steven Seagal. The final scene is reminiscent of the over-the-top final “one-man-army” carnage in Commando (except that here Mifune makes do with a mere samurai sword against machine guns). Unlike Commando, however, The Challenge lacks the slightest humour and serves up unrealistic action with dry earnestness. But it still has something to it. ()

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