YMMV / Bloodfist

• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • In the second movie, Jake's fellow fighters in the Gladiator Games all have their fans, but Greco-Roman wrestler Ernest Santana, taekwando champion Tobo Casenara, and Army Rangers combat instructor Bobby Rose are particularly likable scene stealers who provide some of the franchise's most fondly remembered action scenes. Ernest and Tobo narrowly win evenly matched fights with some particularly good moves, and while Bobby loses, he puts up such a good fight that In-Universe, the crowd forces his captor to spare his life. Further helping Bobby's popularity is how he contributes a lot to the escape even with his broken bones.
  • Mentor Archetype Stark is one of the few parts of the third movie that is generally liked.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Given the general discontinuity in the series, and how the events (like Jake still fighting in sanctioned fights despite a missing kidney) don't quite add up it can be easy to not see the first two movies as a true prequel and sequel (or see the second as a prequel instead of a sequel).
• He's Just Hiding: Ernest's fate in the second movie can evoke this after how impressive of a final fight he'd had and how he isn't seen getting a deathblow on screen.