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Louis Stevens (Dacascos), having completed his tour as a Green Beret in Brazil, returns to his old Miami neighborhood to find that the local high school has been overrun by drug dealers. He intervenes in a dispute with one of the more prominent dealers, an act that ends with the gangsters being forced off campus. Seeing this, Louis' old teacher Mr. Kerrigan (Geoffrey Lewis) brings a proposal to the principal of teaching Capoeira (which Louis learned while in Brazil) to several of the school's worst at-risk students as a means of instilling discipline into them.

However, Louis' earlier intervention with the drug dealer does not go down well with the local drug kingpin Silverio, who is himself a Capoeira master and proceeds to viciously beat Louis as a warning not to interfere. Louis eventually recovers, but what follows is a fight to liberate the neighborhood from Silverio's influence.

 

* [[Badass Boast]]: Between Silverio and Louis during their second confrontation:

'''Louis:''' And this time...I don't play. }}

* [[Badass Teacher]]: Louis himself, although technically he's not a member of the school faculty.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: It's justified, though, as a cop indicates that Silverio's history of intimidating potential witnesses who would otherwise give testimony against him has left the police unable to arrest him on any solid charges.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Plenty.

* [[Race Lift|Style Lift]]: So, you're filming a movie all about Capoeira and its heritage. Who do you hire? A guy who's only ever studied Tae Kwan Doe.

** He did learn Capoeira specifically for the movie and does a pretty decent job for someone who practiced the art for less than a year, but in plenty of fight scenes his style still is barely, if at all recognizeable as Capoeira.

[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]

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