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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 15, 1991 |
Starring:
Beau Starr, Clyde Kusatsu, Dante Basco, James Hong, Jeff Speakman, John Dye, MAKO, Mariska Hargitay, Professor Toru Tanaka, Seth Sakai
Summary:
An expert in "kenpo" karate avenges his Koreatown friend, slain by a mobster in Los Angeles.
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Produced and directed by Mark DiSalle, an alumnus of the Van Damme movies Kickboxer and Bloodsport, The Perfect Weapon moves well, and its many action and martial sequences are crisply staged. But unless you are a die-hard martial-arts fan, be prepared to be thoroughly bored by such a strictly by-the-numbers plot.
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It's not perfect, but PERFECT WEAPON at least furnishes action aficionados with a hero who has a life beyond the floormat of a kung fu school. Speakman may augur a new breed of action hero--a 90s kind of fella who's survived both martial arts classes and sensitivity training sessions. Men will be enthusiastic over his fast footwork; women will be impressed by his ability to carry on an intelligent conversation.
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An action movie has to be taken on its own terms, and on its own terms The Perfect Weapon still amounts to a 90-minute bore. [16 Mar 1991, p.C3]
A karate movie so devoid of inner substance that it threatens to suck all known life on planet Earth into the void at its center. [20 Mar 1991]
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