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This movie has it all, absolutely everything. Jeff Speakman has a presence but his abilities outweigh any acting ability. What we want is a movie with big fights, not Shakespeare. And here's a decent budget (first and last with these features in Speakman's career). The excellently chosen cast, with lots of Japanese playing Koreans, with a former villain Bond (Toru Tanaka), a virtuoso like James Hong capable of transmitting evil and betrayal, we have a Mako also... There is incessant action, the construction of the characters is done in a second, there are no love sub-plots, all we know is that there is a betrayal and there will be revenge. The director, who directed Van Damme in Kickboxer's bodrio here shows us that an American film can live up to the best martial arts movies of all time. Excellent in every way.

There many great action movie that starring familiar face of the action genre like Arnie, Stallone, JCVD...... but there also some lesser-known but super good action star that thank to the power of Internet I finally found them first with Billy Blanks then Jeff Wincott and now Jeff Speakman. Aside from the beautiful showcase of Jeff Speakman impressive martial art talent and a young Dante Basco before his iconic role in Hook The Perfect Weapon also show me a picture of how Asian-American live back in the 90s that really reminded me of Showdown in Little Tokyo one of my all time favorite action movie ever

This is one of my all time favorite martial arts flicks. Is the acting going to win any awards? No. But what makes it great is that Speakman takes hits when he is fighting, a lot of hits and sometimes he goes down and other times he uses incorporates the hit into his attack but he isn't Superman and he does take a beating. This gives the fight scenes a realism missing from so many movies of this kind. Unfortunately in his small catalog of movies Speakman never had another of this level. As much as I want to like LWM (and part of me still loves the movie) I hate Chuck Norris too much to separate his nonsense from his characters. I know this statement will win me no love for this review but Jeff Speakman should have had that long, successful run over crazy old Chuck Norris.

This is my favorite martial arts movie. The plot is easy to follow, which makes it good for non-martial arts viewers like me. Jeff has an easygoing personality and is very easy on the eyes. There are some elements of Asian-American meets Asian, and Jeff melts into that world almost effortlessly. The opening scene is memorable as Jeff shows us some of his martial arts moves in full condition, and has a good opening song. The film never drags. Great movie for couples to watch together as it isn't necessarily a "guy" film. Unfortunately, Jeff never followed through on the promise he showed in this, his best film. He later started doing mellow kind of dad movies. His time would have been better spent developing his acting abilities, which are rather wooden. But it's a good kind of b-grade acting.

This is a perfect little action flick starring Jeff Speakman as a young delinquent Jeff Sanders, who was enrolled in a kenpo school. Years later, Jeff would put his kenpo moves into good use as he takes on a mafia gang to avenge his mentor's death. Caught in the mix is his detective brother, played by Touched by an Angel actor John Dye. This is a fast-paced movie with a simple, but compelling revenge plot, with plenty of martial arts and gun-totting action. The acting was actually not too bad and the choreography was cleverly done. I particularly enjoyed seeing John Dye in an out-of-character role as the no-nonsense, gun-totting detective, versus his more tender and heavenly role in Touched by an Angel and fatherly roles in later made-for-TV movies. Overall, it is not a bad action flick. You'll have a pretty good time watching it. Grade B

Where can I learn to fight like that? This movie is fantastic. The fight scenes are choreographed perfectly and make Speakman out to be a good fighter, but not invincible(he does get hit a few times, quite nastily I might add). This is much better than a Steven Seagal film where he never suffers one blow from the bad guys. The way Speakman moves is breathtaking. Its almost hard to believe that what he's doing is actually a martial art. But it is. And he does it so well. The plot in this movie is simple: its just another revenge flick. This makes the movie easier to watch because you don't have to really watch the plot, just the action. Its rather disappointing that after this and Street Knight, speakman was reduced to doing low-budget films. He deserves another big budget movie like this. Fantastic action, fantastic martial arts choreography make this a 10/10 movie. If you haven't seen it yet you must WATCH IT NOW.