Product Details

• Actors: Hulk Hogan, Joan Severance, Kurt Fuller, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Mark Pellegrino
• Directors: Thomas J. Wright
• Writers: Dennis Hackin
• Producers: Hulk Hogan, Michael I. Rachmil, Michael McDonnell, Richard Glover, Vince McMahon
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
• VHS Release Date: June 24, 1994
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301436520
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,534 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars No Holds Barred Is Just Plain Fun!, August 30, 2003

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Crazy Jim (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Holds Barred [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Over a decade before The Rock became a movie star in "Scorpion King", big Hulk Hogan got his chance to be a movie star. Who could forget his starring debut as WWF champion, Rip Thomas? Rip is the biggest star on cable and this is bad news for a competing network run by the evil Mr. Brell (played by Kurt Fuller), who demands Rip sign to his station. Rip won't do it though as he is signed with another company and "his word is his bond". When he is turned down, Brell looks elsewhere for talent and promotes a tough man contest where the winner gets a whole lot of money and a spot on his network. Enter Zeus, a convicted killing machine who takes out the competition.

While Zeus makes for huge ratings, Brell still isn't happy. He wants to promote a match between Zeus and Rip. He will stop at nothing to get it either as he hires a female assistant to seduce Rip and has Zeus hospitalize his little brother. This of course sends Rip on a rampage and results in the ultimate showdown between the two massive stars.

This movie is one of those "so corny, it's great" films and actually inspired several real-life matches between Hogan and actor Lister on WWF pay-per-view. Fuller as the scumbag network executive is just priceless and the scene where Hogan's Rip is getting pummeled while his brother watches from his wheelchair and sad music plays in the background is reason enough to pick up this forgotten gem. Hogan has never been better.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Movie of 1989, December 24, 2003

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Laurence A. Eaton (Medway, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Holds Barred [VHS] (VHS Tape)

No Holds Barred could be the best movie ever made. How did the Acadamy over look this movie for best picture in 1989. Not since Rocky III have we seen Hulk Hogan light up the big screen like he does in this movie. RIP Thomas (played by Hul Hogan) is a successful wrestling champion who is is forced to battle the ultimate oponent, Zeus (Tom "Tiny" Lister Jr.) The movie brings you to the edge of your seat with a climatic battle with Zeus and will leave searching for those tissues when RIP's brother (Mark Pellegrino("Murph Calzone in Drowning Mona") is tragically paralyzed. My favorite scene in the movie is when RIP is caught up in a violent robbery at a diner. Instead of surrending to the crooks, he throws pies and other baked goods at them. He through them so fast the robbers did not have time to fire their machine guns. I dont want to give to much away, if you have not seen this movie you are depriving yourself of cinematic genious! I am still waiting for the DVD version so I can see behind the scenes footage of thhis masterpiece.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The type of film that will be confused for parody, July 18, 2001

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The Glider (Birmingham,England UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No Holds Barred [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This 89 minute long film works ultimately on the levels of parody.How can a film with such awful dialogue,bargain basement production values and atrocious,atrocious acting have any hope of being taken seriously?About 80% of the script consists of Hulk Hogan,Tiny Lister and the other huging macho guys making noises along the lines of ''raaaaahaaaah'',''grooooooar''and ''aaaah''and the sets,especially those used in the end showdown,look like they cost about all of $150.The video I own of this movie is at least eight years old,so being played on a VCR in the day and age of DVD players,the sound volume,especially if played late at night ,is practically mute.Never has something so influential been so low key.The video was brought for me as a gift,and over the years,I've come to appreciate it on it's camp levels as a strictly wrestling/revenge motif flick,and certainly not as Shakespeare.Having said that,in amongst all the macho rubbish,Kurt Fuller does give a fairly involving performance as the slimy villain.Otherwise,this is a film you will definitely have to accept for what it is...or else.