Miami Connection

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Miami Connection

R

1988

1h 27m

Action

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Drug dealers get a free taekwondo lesson from a college band called Dragon Sound (Y.K. Kim, Vincent Hirsch, William Ergle).

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Jason Bailey

Flavorwire

Jun 21, 2016

Even now, all these years later, most of the parties involved are pretty clueless about how utterly, incomprehensibly bad their movie is. And that, truth be told, is part of its charm.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Nov 9, 2012

0/5

Nonsensical dialogue, painful acting, lots of strobe lights, and even more fighting -- what more could a person want? Perhaps a beheading? Miami Connection has that, too.

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Rob Humanick

Slant Magazine

Nov 9, 2012

3.5/4

Love it or hate it, it's doubtful you'll ever forget it, and it may just force you to redefine your definition of what constitutes "good" cinema.

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Jan 2, 2022

1/10

It isn't merely bad; it's so deficient in every moviemaking aspect that it's routinely hilarious.

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

Aug 29, 2018

1/5

Anything can be this incompetently made - but this incompetently made and also this openly in love with filmmaking and humanity? That's a much rarer combination indeed.

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Sean Axmaker

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Mar 2, 2018

"[A] gonzo B-movie from the eighties created by Y.K. Kim, a martial arts instructor and inspirational speaker who took his talents to the big screen despite a complete lack of screen charisma or acting talent."

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Metal S.

@MetalSombreros Jul 11, 2026

If you like hilariously bad movies, Miami Connection has no equal. It is a ninja / tae kwon do / rock n roll / florida cocaine smuggling / friends forever loyalty honestly CLASSIC. I have easily seen it 50 times and it is non-stop HILARIOUS get ready to rock out with your nunchucks out!

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Jason H

@RT50328122 Feb 22, 2026

One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

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Ben W.

@th3wol5f Oct 28, 2025

Accidentally pretty wonderful. Grade: 56

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Brandon S

@Brandoom Oct 14, 2025

Highlights of the movie include YK Kim pretending to play a guitar badly and a monologue with the only black character that seems to be so awkward even he can't believe the words he's clearly reading off screen.

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Bucky R

@Bucky3085 Mar 23, 2024

Manos-level incompetence meets a musical Miami Vice for a Tae Kwon Do showdown. #friendsforever

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tbewin1 z

@RT41988133 Apr 13, 2023

I do not understand "so bad it's good". This movie is very hard to watch because it is plain bad...period. The "good guys" murder dozens of people and we are supposed to cheer for them? They also converse with each other like children even though they are adults (and you cannot understand Kim at all).

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Synopsis

Drug dealers get a free taekwondo lesson from a college band called Dragon Sound (Y.K. Kim, Vincent Hirsch, William Ergle).

Director: Y.K. Kim, Park Woo-sang
Screenwriter: Joseph Diamand
Production Co: P.J.K. Group
Rating: R
Genre: Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 6, 2016
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: Ultra-Stereo
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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