No matter how low your expectations are going into this absurd late 80s Hulk Hogan vehicle, it's quite likely to limbo right under them.

Hogan is the "star", but he actually gets very little screen time, disappearing for large chunks of the film while the focus is on the villain of the piece played with a "Hey, it's a paycheck" glee by Kurt Fuller. When he is on screen, Hogan struggles playing a character that is more or less the same one he'd played for nearly a decade in the WWF.

None of this would've mattered much had the film at least given us some entertaining wrestling moments and perhaps a few good montages set to cheesy rock music, but it can't even seem to do that right.

'No Holds Barred' is awful even by the standards of low budget late-80s wrestling movies, of which it may be the only one.

To me this movie took place in a parallel universe where pro-wrestling is a real sport. My wife and I enjoyed seeing this movie for laughs and indeed we did find much of it quite amusing. However while many seem to consider Hulk Hogan's acting in this movie quite atrocious I suggest you all do see his role on a Walker Texas Ranger episode as Boomer Knight, an ex-convict who runs a youth center in a gang neighborhood to keep the children from joining the gangs. Walker helps him organize basketball tournaments. The drug dealers try to intervene by kidnapping Boomer. The Hulkster truly showed great acting potential on that most heart-warming episode. Hulk Hogan and Chuck Norris were great together that one time!