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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
The gimmick in The Perfect Weapon is that the kick-ass hero (newcomer Jeff Speakman) practices a form of karate known as kenpo, in which the traditional arm and leg thrusts are broken up into lots of tiny machine-gun movements. During the fight scenes, it sounds as if a hundred watermelons were being clobbered at once. Other than that, it's business as usual, with the all-American Speakman proving the most generic vigilante this genre has spawned yet.
Posted Mar 29, 1991
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