"Low Blow" appears to reunite the director and most of the cast from a previous 80's movie called "Killpoint", only it seems to be made even more cheaply than that enjoyable time waster. As such, it's not the worst martial arts/action movie you will ever watch -I'd watch "Low Blow" 5 more times rather than watch Steven Seagal's "The Foreigner" even once more.
The credits say that Leo Fong wrote this movie as well as starring in it (uh-huh).I have to admit the screenplay isn't nearly as bad as it might be, mostly because the movie doesn't seem to take itself (or the hero/leading man) too seriously. Fong plays a likable diamond in the rough, and the movie doesn't ask him to do anything he can't do well.
Most of the rest of the cast are community theater rejects, with the exceptions of Cameron Mitchell (who once again has to act from behind a huge pair of blackened sunglasses), Stack Pierce and his trademark grimace, Troy Donaghue as your basic generic rich white guy/senator type, and a startingly charismatic and attractive young black woman who plays Cameron's girl Friday.She steals most of the scenes she is in and almost walks away with the movie.
Again,the super low budget is very evident here, and the screen play has no real energy or momentum - it just kind of mooches along from fist fight to shootout to the next fist fight and then some more shooting. And BTW, since when can a bunch of private individuals with guns invade another privately owned compound and kill 90% of the people in it with no repercussions? I mean, supposedly the movie is set in the continental US - Fong's character just drives to the cult headquarters. It's not as if this is taking place in the Phillipines (even though some of it was obviously shot there).
At least "Low Blow" is mildly funny and ribald when it means to be, and there's lots of cheesy action - only instead of "The Wild Bunch", it's more like "The Mild Bunch".
You should not play actual money to see this DVD - I got as part of a 12 movies-for-$5 compilation, which was fine.
The credits say that Leo Fong wrote this movie as well as starring in it (uh-huh).I have to admit the screenplay isn't nearly as bad as it might be, mostly because the movie doesn't seem to take itself (or the hero/leading man) too seriously. Fong plays a likable diamond in the rough, and the movie doesn't ask him to do anything he can't do well.
Most of the rest of the cast are community theater rejects, with the exceptions of Cameron Mitchell (who once again has to act from behind a huge pair of blackened sunglasses), Stack Pierce and his trademark grimace, Troy Donaghue as your basic generic rich white guy/senator type, and a startingly charismatic and attractive young black woman who plays Cameron's girl Friday.She steals most of the scenes she is in and almost walks away with the movie.
Again,the super low budget is very evident here, and the screen play has no real energy or momentum - it just kind of mooches along from fist fight to shootout to the next fist fight and then some more shooting. And BTW, since when can a bunch of private individuals with guns invade another privately owned compound and kill 90% of the people in it with no repercussions? I mean, supposedly the movie is set in the continental US - Fong's character just drives to the cult headquarters. It's not as if this is taking place in the Phillipines (even though some of it was obviously shot there).
At least "Low Blow" is mildly funny and ribald when it means to be, and there's lots of cheesy action - only instead of "The Wild Bunch", it's more like "The Mild Bunch".
You should not play actual money to see this DVD - I got as part of a 12 movies-for-$5 compilation, which was fine.