Best of the Best

Summary: A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country - can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?

Release Date: November 10, 1989

Genres: Action, Drama, Sport

Director: Robert Radler

Writers: Phillip Rhee

, Paul Levine

, Max Strom

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: The Movie Group, SVS Films, Kuys Entertainment

Distributor: SVS Video, Image Entertainment, SVS/Triumph Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,700,000

Box office:

Budget:$5MDomestic:$1.7MWorldwide:$1.7M

39%

The Rotten Tomatoes audience rated this 39% higher than the critics.

33%72%

The Metacritic audience rated this 47% higher than the critics.

Metacritic Meta:

26/100

Metacritic User:

73/100

17%35%

17% of the Stars & Main Cast are Female.

35% of the Stars & Main Cast are "diverse."

White58.82%Asian29.41%Jewish5.88%Black5.88%

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Message1/5
Role model1/5
Violence3/5
Sex3/5
Language3/5
Drugs3/5

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Race	White	Black	Total	Visuals	Info
Kairos	8		8		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.kairos.com/demos
Forebears	4	1	5
Ethnic	4		4		This is the most reliable data source for accurate ethnic breakdowns of famous people. Often the information is crowdsourced by users and they cite all their sources (family trees, obituaries, census archives, etc.) on the bottom of the page. The only issue is converting their ambiguous and inconsistent verdicts into quantifiable variables. Source: https://ethnicelebs.com/
Bettaface	1		1		A third party facial recognition software company we used to maintain objectivity. Upload images to the facial recognition demo page to check the veracity of our data set. Or use their API and do a bulk peer review if you'd like. Source: https://www.betafaceapi.com/demo_old.html
Total	17	1	18
Cast Percentages	94.44%	5.56%	100%	{"name":"Cast Percentages","series":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":5.56,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}
U.S. Population (1970) Percentage	83.2%	11.1%		{"name":"U.S. Population (1970)","series":[{"name":"White","y":83.2,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353"},{"name":"Asian","y":0.76,"color":"#90ee7e"},{"name":"Black","y":11.1,"color":"#f45b5b"},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF"},{"name":"Indigenous","y":0.4,"color":"#aaeeee"},{"name":"Latino","y":4.4,"color":"#eeaaee"},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":0.3,"color":"#55BF3B"},{"name":"Jewish","y":2.63,"color":"#ff0066"}],"prefix":""}	Source: US Census (Note: Racial and ethnic categories overlap so the sum will not equal 100%.)
U.S. Population (1970) Representation	+11.24	-5.54		{"name":"U.S. Population (1970)","series":[["White",83.2],["Black",11.1]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":5.56,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Percentage	81.25%	7.72%		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[{"name":"White","y":6413300000000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":276400000000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":609100000000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":40300000000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":494000000000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":60300000000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: Selig Center, University of Georgia
U.S. Buying Power (2000) Representation	+13.19	-2.16		{"name":"U.S. Buying Power (2000)","series":[["White",81.25],["Black",7.72]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":5.56,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Percentage	88.52%	7.95%		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[{"name":"White","y":10186075459123,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":0,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":103212124404,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":914912466905,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":0,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":35137867565,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":242161920000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":25411669920,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":0,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	Source: IPUMS-CPS, University of Minnesota
U.S. Average Individual Income (2018) Representation	+5.92	-2.39		{"name":"U.S. Average Individual Income (2018)","series":[["White",88.52],["Black",7.95]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":5.56,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
World population (1966) Percentage	23.27%	8.91%		{"name":"World population (1966) ","series":[{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":6429598255,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":18731521174,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":3912463521,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"White","y":78478734583,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":30030137441,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":118449011510,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":19343300288,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":60519269777,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":1296182833,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":""}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World population (1966) Representation	+71.17	-3.35		{"name":"World population (1966) ","series":[["White",23.27],["Black",8.91]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":5.56,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
World Buying Power Percentage	36.48%	6.38%		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[{"name":"White","y":3010602822170000,"color":"#2b908f","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Latino","y":771525888400000,"color":"#eeaaee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Jewish","y":91700962050000,"color":"#ff0066","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Black","y":526264226360000,"color":"#f45b5b","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indigenous","y":174285727610000,"color":"#aaeeee","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Mixed \/ Other","y":148984454560000,"color":"#55BF3B","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Arab","y":526400066100000,"color":"#DF5353","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Asian","y":2431392083750000,"color":"#90ee7e","sliced":true,"selected":true},{"name":"Indian","y":572687873900000,"color":"#7798BF","sliced":true,"selected":true}],"prefix":"$"}	NOTE: ZR is the first organization to ever create a global buying power divided by race. Essentially we just took data from CIA.gov FactBook, UN Population Estimates, and The World Bank's Population Estimates / Purchasing Power Parity Per Capita.
World Buying Power Representation	+57.96	-0.82		{"name":"World Buying Power","series":[["White",36.48],["Black",6.38]],"cast":[{"name":"White","y":94.44,"color":"#2b908f"},{"name":"Black","y":5.56,"color":"#f45b5b"}]}
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Message 1/5	Not delivering the killing blow is not a loss but a victory. Friends stand by one another.
Role model 1/5
Violence 3/5	Lots of mild violence and fighting, some blood, bruises, and cuts, and some punishing training techniques like getting hit with large sticks to toughen up. There's a fair amount of punching and kicking, some knees to the face, and a bar brawl. Most of the violence feels very dated, even if it can get quite frequent. A man has his shoulder painfully popped back into place. Men sexually comment on women at a bar. A White man displays racist behavior and hate speech toward an Asian American teammate and Asian competitors, often using words such as "Chink," "yellow," "kim chi," "hop sin." A man grabs a woman's backside and makes out with her at a bar.
Sex 3/5
Language 3/5	Language includes: "s--t," "goddamn," "a--hole," "Chink," "yellow," "balls," and "hell."
Drugs 3/5	Adults drink alcohol at a bar and some show drunken behavior. A few adults smoke cigarettes.