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Picture this: a martial arts movie made in Chile, voiced over in English, with both Korean and Arabic spoken, requiring subtitles.  The storyline: a little Star Wars meets tae kwon do. 

In Kiltro, Latin martial artist Marko Zaror plays Zamir, a street tough who enjoys a good fight.  Zamir has his eyes set on Kim, the daughter of Yun, a Korean martial arts master.  Zamir saved Kim from an attempted rape and took her home.  To thank him, Kim kissed him.  After that, Zamir was sprung, making it hard for any other guy to so much as dance with Kim.  For her part, Kim ignores Zamir, much to his chagrin.
Zamir’s friends note his melancholy and take him to see Farah, the Arab, who just before meeting with Zamir receives a mysterious package with the word “Death” written in Arabic on the outside.  He advises Zamir not to let his love for Kim become an obsession.  Later, it is revealed that Zamir, Kim, Yun, and Farah are all connected, and all in danger from Max Kalba.  Kalba has returned to town for revenge against the man who stole what belonged to him, and that man’s organization. 
Zamir’s love for Kim puts him in the way of Kalba’s wrath, and on the path to becoming a man.  On the way Zamir meets a Yoda-like dwarf martial arts master who leads sends him on a journey to get the training necessary to beat Kalba.  While training Zamir, of course, learns more about himself and his dead father.
Kiltro keeps you entertained and slightly disturbed with its familiar storyline and a motley crew of characters.  But you never know if the movie is intentionally cheesy or if the writer and director, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, was serious and the movie just turned out cheesy. Zaror, so-called the “Latin Dragon,” only gets to really fight during the last 15-20 minutes of the movie.  To make matters worse, he towers over everyone else in the movie, but the audience is supposed to suspend reality and believe that he is a mullet-having, big pants-wearing teenager.
Although seriously lacking a great story, Kiltro does entertain, whether purposely or not.  It definitely has the potential to become a cult hit.

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