It doesn’t get much simpler than this: A boy can’t be controlled by his father, so he enrolls him a class to learn the ways of a martial art – to teach him discipline. The boy becomes a master of the art, but still hasn’t quite grasped the concept of the discipline part. After beating up some kid in the schoolyard, he gets banished from his home, and years later returns to reconnect with his old master. When the master gets murdered, the boy has finally become a man – and a master himself, and avenges his friend. He has become THE PERFECT WEAPON! (that title just begs to be capitalized.)
This week for Trailer Tuesday, we bring you Jeff Speakman as “THE PERFECT WEAPON”
I like watching a film and then watching the trailer to see how out of order they present everything, or if they give away any of the plot . You definitely aren’t going to be watching The Perfect Weapon for the plot, but I’ll talk about that more in my review later this week.
What do you get when you mix a blaxploitation kung-fu movie and an Asian horror movie? You get Gang Wars, a weird combination of bad fight choreography, drug dealers and a monster movie all rolled up in to one.
The story of Remo Williams is based on books from the 70s called “The Destroyer”, which went on become one of the longest men’s adventure series in history. He (formely Samuel Makin) is a New York cop who was recruited by a government agency that doesn’t exist. This agency faked his death, gave him a new name and forces him to hunt bad guys no one has ever heard of. So why not make a movie about it right? Well, I guess you could say the “Adventure” began and ended with this movie. There was a TV pilot made a few years later but like the movie it did poor and was never picked up. It’s a shame too because Remo, played by one of my B-movie favorites Fred Ward, is the kind of tough-talking government agent with a chip on his shoulder that people usually root for!
(that title just begs to be capitalized.)
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