Balkan Line vs Return of the Kickfighter
Balkan Line has the higher audience score (7.5/10 against 7.2/10 for Return of the Kickfighter). Return of the Kickfighter is the shorter watch at 1h 33m compared with 2h 10m. Return of the Kickfighter is the older of the two (1987 against 2019). Both are action, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Balkan Line
Return of the Kickfighter| Balkan Line | Return of the Kickfighter | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 7.2/10 |
| Year | 2019 | 1987 |
| Length | 2h 10m | 1h 33m |
| Genres | Action, Drama, War | Action, War |
| Country | Russia | – |
| Director | Andrey Volgin | Anthony Maharaj |
| Main cast | Emir Kusturica, Anton Pampushnyy, Gosha Kutsenko, Miloš Biković, Milena Radulović | Richard Norton, Dick Wei, Huang Kin-Lung, George E. Mahlberg, Rex Cutter |
Synopsis
Balkan Line
After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Yugoslav army pulls out of Kosovo region, leaving Serbian people at the mercy of the Albanian UCK. A small band of soldiers must take over the Slatina airport, and hold it until the Russian peacekeepers arrive.
Return of the Kickfighter
The plot concerns a unit of US marines operating in the Vietnam war during 1970, with the movie opening on a raid in a village. After massacring the villagers, the marines steal the villages gold, much to the objection of their Vietnamese translator and guide. Skip forward past the credits sequence; it's now 15 years later, and members of the unit are getting murdered one by one. This leads to the former head of the group, now a high ranking…
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