Jeff Speakman was on the road to martial arts super-stardom since being a master of the Kenpo style of fighting; a fighting style that was new to Western audiences. However, The Perfect Weapon, is far from perfect. For starters, the script is full of sputtered dialog, leaving the characters, especially Speakman, as vapid shells with nothing to work with. The acting is equally OTT atrocious with inane, incompetent and uninspired, by-the-numbers direction. The material is nothing special to begin with as with the case of most martial arts movies (though some of them are technically polished and brilliant) of that era. But TPW is not all that bad though. Some of the fight scenes are impressive and the fact that Speakman gets beaten up and vulnerable(this could've lent Seagal more credibility) as well as the final fight between Speakman and the big guy was one of the only good things out of this film. Too bad the end product was more or less than the sum of its parts and Speakman, sadly, faded away into obscurity from the spotlight; possibly forever. A shame. He could've been the next best thing.
Review of The Perfect Weapon
