THE BLOOD OF HEROES perfectly lives up to its title, and that's it. Anything else would be sub-par in comparison to other endless lists of movies that focus on death sports of the future as well as the present. You should take a hard look at the settings during the bloody battling. To make the barren post-WW3 scenery look "good", the filmmakers might have decided to be better off dry in the studio and forget a one-way airline trip to Australia, but that didn't work. What's so hot about heavy-coated gladiators hacking each other to the final death? This same plot has been used numerous times, and that includes recent martial arts movies taking place inside a cage (SHOOTFIGHTER). B-grade actioners are taking up too much space in the crowded marketplace, and I'm getting sick of them. See this if you want to taste the blood, but don't get excited.
Review of The Blood of Heroes
The Blood of Heroes
(1989)
Tired old gladiator sports mixed with blood and nothing more.
28 February 1999