History Film / Gymkata

* [[RoomFullOfCrazy Town Full Of Crazy]]: And the seemingly OnlySameMan is a priest with his garb cut in the back to show off his ass.

* BenevolentArchitecture: It's amazing how much of Parmistan's architecture ''just happens'' to look and function like gymnastics equipment. Okay, granted, maybe you could make an argument that a city full of lunatics WOULD have decided, in their own delusions, to just stick a random pommel horse-shaped lump in the middle of the city square and it's just pure coincidence and bad luck for them that the foreigner trying to get through is a champion gymnast and martial artist...

* BrokenPedestal: Of a sort. Cabot tries to compliment Thorg, who's also apparently an athlete of some kind, by saying he's admired the guy since Munich. The big lug cold-shoulders him right away, showing himself to be something of a dick. By the time he's beating the crap out of Cabot and strangling another contestant to death, it becomes obvious that Thorg isn't just a dick; he's a ''MASSIVE'' dick.

* InsaneEqualsViolent: The Village of Crazies is filled with people who are violently crazy enough to butcher anyone who enters. Somehow, they're also rational enough to never attack each other.

* MookChivalry: A particularely {{Egregious}} example. In the pommel horse fight scene, all the mooks look somewhat menacing with their pitchforks and such, but they're not even making an effort to ''appear'' as if they're aching to jump Cabot if not for his combat skills. Most are quite literally [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gTkUcXGF_Q&feature=related just standing still]] until its their turn.

->''You are invited to witness the deadliest martial art of them all...''

->--The ''Gymkata'' tagline

* BrokenPedestal: Of a sort, Cabot tries to compliment Thorg, who's also apparently an athlete of some kind, by saying he had admired the guy since Munich. The big lug cold-shoulders him right away, showing himself to be something of a dick. By the time he's beating the crap out of Cabot and strangling another contestant to death, it becomes obvious that Thorg isn't just a dick; he's a ''MASSIVE'' dick.

* InsistentTerminology: "Carabal- by the Caspian Sea" (As opposed to, presumably, Carabal by the Mediterranean or Irish Seas...)

* BrokenPedestal: Of a sort, Cabot tries to compliment Thorg, who's also apparently an athlete of some kind, by saying he had admired the guy since Munich. The big lug cold-shoulders him right away, showing himself to be something of a dick. By the time he's beating the crap out of Cabot and strangling another contestant to death, it becomes clear that Thorg isn't just a dick; he's a ''MASSIVE'' one.

* SignatureScene: The Village of the Crazies, especially the part pictured above where Cabot hops on a pommel horse and Gymkatas half the village in its face.

* NonActorVehicle: As an athlete, Kurt Thomas is an excellent gymnast. As an actor... Kurt Thomas is an excellent gymnast.

* DeathCourse: The Game is already fraught with danger, and Zamir's determination to prevent any competitors from winning makes it even deadlier than usual; he and his mooks kill off two-thirds of them before the halfway point.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Thorg could have easily survived, if not won the race, had he prioritized making it to the finish line over killing his fellow competitors.

* InsaneEqualsViolent: The Village of Crazies is filled with people who are violently crazy enough to kill anyone who enters. Somehow, they're also rational enough to never attack each other.

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar
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''Gymkata'' is not a well made movie. It's not a well acted movie, it's not a well written movie, it's not a well directed movie and it's not a well choreographed movie. What does that make ''Gymkata''? It makes it an awesome movie for [[SoBadItsGood all the wrong reasons]]. There are bad movies, there are worse movies and there are movies that offer a few brief moments of unintentional comedy, but ''Gymkata'' is a tour de force of B-movie greatness. At no point will you not be entertained. What else can you ask for from a movie starring an Olympic gymnast fighting ninjas and crazed peasants?

'''Gymkata has examples of:'''

* BMovie

* DeathCourse
* DisappearedDad
* TheEighties
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses

* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Gymkata

* LoveInterest

* MentorArchetype: Cabot's master.

* {{Ninja}}
* NoNameGiven: Cabot's master.
* NonActorVehicle
* {{Ruritania}}

* ColdWar

* Insistent Terminology: "Carabal- by the Caspian Sea" (As opposed to, presumably, Carabal by the Mediterranean or Irish Seas...)

* [[BannedInChina Banned In Finland]]: The movie was banned in Finland to avoid angering the Soviet Union.

* Tempting Fate: "Just a little anti-American sentiment, nothing to worry--" Cue arrow to the chest from off-screen.

* {{Expy}}: The entire sequence in the village is so eerily similar to the ganado village in VideoGame/ResidentEvil4 you'll wonder if Capcom aren't fans of this movie.

* CloudCuckooLand: The crazy town Cabot has to go through as part of the game, which includes a guy who cuts off his hand in the middle of fight because he couldn't let go of a pipe for some reason.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmenAcademy: One of the ninjas had an aim that was so bad that when commanded to kill a failing contestant, he shoots the ninja holding him.

* FilmOfTheBook: This movie based on the novel, ''The Terrible Game''. Still, even the book still has a rather dubious premise.

* {{Expy}}: The entire sequence in the village is so eerily similar to the ganado village in ResidentEvil4 you'll wonder if Capcom aren't fans of this movie.