Ironheart

Plot synopsis:
Ironheart opens at a Portland nightclub (Upfront FX), where Milverstead, who is considered the most powerful and ruthless man in town, and his group of thugs are looking at the female clientele with an approving eye. Milverstead is shipping illegal arms out of the Portland docks, and to sweeten the deals with his trading partners, he kidnaps local lonely dancers, strings them out on heroin, and sends them along in the deal. He notices Cindy Kane (Meagan Hughes) dancing furiously to U-Krew's hit "If You Were Mine" and decides to kidnap her. To lure her into his trap, he instructs his young lieutenant Richard (Michael Lowry) to flirt with her and get her to go with him. Cindy is ostensibly with her loser boyfriend Stevo (Rob Buckmater) at the club, but wants to get him jealous and so leaves with Richard. Milverstead and his gang leave shortly thereafter.
However, they are being tailed from the club by a new policeman on the Portland force from LA named Douglas (David Mountain), Douglas has been tipped to Milverstead's shady dealings and follows everyone to the docks, where most of the gang is now dragging Cindy onto a boat, locking her in a cage and shooting her full of heroin. At this point, Milverstead's second in command, Ice (Bolo Yeung) takes some of the gang and lays a trap for Douglas. They beat Douglas senseless, at which point Ice shoots Douglas in cold blood on a pile of old tires, and also blows up his car with gunfire.
Back in LA, Douglas's old partner John Keem (Britton K. Lee) is made aware of his partner's untimely death and strangely ordered to Portland to assist the local police in the investigation. While driving to Portland in a red convertible Porsche, he stops for a sandwich when he notices some men on the beach smoking marijuana and, subsequently, attempting to rape a female jogger. He goes to investigate when he is charged by a drugged out rapist named Spike, and promptly beats him and the rest of the potential rapists up, saving the jogger's life. When he goes to check on the woman, she has fled in terror from the bizarre encounter.
Upon reaching Portland, he immediately goes to meet with Captain Kronious (Joe Ivy), who offers assistance and mentions that a woman also disappeared the same night Douglas was killed, a Cindy Kane. John goes to talk to Stevo and see if there is perhaps a connection between Cindy's disappearance and Douglas's fateful death. Milverstead arranges to have Cindy sent overseas with his next shipment, and brags to Ice how pleased he is things are going so smoothly, as he HATES chaos.
John Keem meets up Stevo, who tells him Cindy left with a strange guy from the club, so they go to investigate that night. Milverstead is there along with his gang, so John Keem stirs things up a bit by starting a fight to get Milverstead's attention when he sees a friend of Cindy named Kristy (Karman Kruschke) being harassed by a couple young punks. Puzzled that Ice has never heard of this new heavy hitter, he sets about to find out who exactly John Keem is.
Kristy runs a dance studio, so John Keem decides to pay her a visit the next day and question her about Cindy. Cindy, unfortunately, became a "tragic dancer's story", where she was talented, but got lazy and started simply dancing at the clubs trying to land a rich guy, leading Stevo on the whole time that he had an actual chance with her. They go to lunch, where they are interrupted by Stevo (whom Kristy calls "Cherub") who tells John Keem to check out an address given to him by the Captain. John races off to follow the tip, leaving Stevo to awkwardly hit on Kristy just one day after his girlfriend goes missing.
John finds the address, but when he gets closer to the house to investigate, he sees a bomb planted just inside the window by Milverstead's henchman Simmons (Pat Patterson) and runs away just as it explodes. Simmons and his accomplices try to corner John, and they then engage in a wild gun battle where two of the gang are killed and Simmons wings John Keem in the shoulder. At this moment, Kristy arrives out of nowhere in an old Volkswagen Beetle and just drives through the middle of the battle, allowing Simmons to escape. Kristy jumps out of her car and gets in a shouting match with John, who calms her down and blows up her car so it can't be traced. They drive off together to continue the hunt.
Back on Milverstead's boat, he is relaxing with a drink Ice just made when Simmons arrives. He quizzes Simmons about whether or not John Kim was dead, and makes him feel guilty about botching the operation so badly. Simmons sputters out some nonsense about knowing that he shot John Keem, but refuses to answer whether or not he terminated the target. Disgusted, Milverstead tells Simmons the dead men's blood scream for his, so he has Ice strangle Simmons with his own tie and toss him overboard.
Kristy attends to John Keem's wounds back at her place, when she starts to get emotional. Unmoved, John Keem listens and then they promptly sleep together with no apparent pre-text other than they were both there. Stevo is frantically trying to reach John Keem, so he calls Kronious to let him know that Richard, the guy Cindy went home with, works for Milverstead. He then goes off to complete his route for Hot Flash Pizza. However, Captain Kronious calls Milverstead with this information, and not John Keem. Milverstead gets off the phone and asks Ice, who has been bouncing a pencil while awaiting his next order, if he'd like a little "exercise". Ice throws down the pencil and goes off to find and kill Stevo.
After their sexual encounter, John Keem goes off to finish the investigation while Kristy goes to collect her 8 year old daughter she left at the club with the reception several hours earlier. John Keem learns that Stevo has been killed, and makes the connection that Milverstead is involved. He takes the fight to Milverstead by impersonating a homeless man and banging on the door to Milverstead Shipping in downtown Portland to alert the night watchman. They let him in, and he promptly kills or maims the entire security team and finds evidence to finish Milverstead once and for all.
Milverstead is waiting for him at the club, and offers a bonus to any of his henchman who kills John Keem. Kristy leaves her daughter at home alone again to try and lure Milverstead out into the open by dancing up a storm at the dance club. Milverstead knows she is working with John Kim, but decides to kidnap her and send her overseas anyway to punish her for working with him. Unfortunatetly, John Keem dispatches his henchman with a single punch and quickly follows Milverstead and Ice to the docks. There he also finds the double-crossing Captain Kronious, and gets him to tell him where Milverstead is before he shoots and kills him.
He then kills off the remaining henchman (besides Ice) and corners a helpless Milverstead. Wielding a samurai sword he took off one of the henchman, he chops a sobbing Milverstead's head off and turns to face Ice. He quickly beats (but does not kill) Ice, avenging his friend's death. He goes back to LA with Kristy and her daughter to start a new chapter of his life.

Tags: revenge

Review:
"I was born and raised in Korea ...".
The hero John Keem is going after some drug dealers who kidnaps girls for some reason.
On his journey he uses karate and kung fu moves and I don't believe he got hit a single time during the movie.
This is Crap..
This movie has no plot and five lines of dialogue.
The acting was bad, and the plot, well i don't think there was one.Some fat blonde chap who is always dressed in a dinner suit, kidnaps a sort from a nightclub, i think he then kills a copper.
pointless fights then happen Kidnapped girl is put in cage on a boat, why?
Tough uncompromising martial arts trained cop turns up, speaks bad english and does stuff that does not make sense.
Its utter tripe.
But he does have a nice car.
christ on a bike, this film was a waste of 90 minutes..
Milverstead - Greatest Villain Ever?.
Richard Norton really lights the screen up in this Portland, Oregon based martial arts masterpiece.
Norton, an Aussie heartthrob, plays the evil Mr. Milverstead who runs a successful import/export business both smuggling arms and participating in the female flesh trade.
Usually the women are plucked from his favorite dance club with the help of a squad of goons the most well known of who is Bolo Yeung, playing the role of Ice. Trouble comes for Milverstead when a new cop in town John Kim (Britton Lee) is out to avenge his dead partners murder at the hand of Milverstead's organization.
If you have time to see only one martial arts movie this year, don't miss this classic..
This really is the worst movie I have ever seen.
This really is the worst movie I have ever seen.
For a while, I made a habit of watching lousy movies, including "Battlefield Earth", "Delta Force Commando" and "Starship".
All of these movies are cinematic gems compared to Ironheart.There isn't much point in summarizing this piece of junk; I think it's more beneficial to summarize my reaction to the movie, which is as follows: I become furiously angry and I want to rip the tape out of the VCR and burn it after (roughly) 80 minutes of play.I rate this movie a 0, but IMDb does not let one rate a movie less than 1.
I give it a 0 knowing full well that I am saying any movie that has any score above 0 is infinitely (undefinably) many times better than this one - That's really how bad it is..
This movie had the potential,but blew it..
This movie had it all,great fighters,among them Bolo Yeung and Britton K.
Lee and a descent budget,but it seems that the director did everything to ruin it.The movie starts of good,but after that it only gets worse.WHY didn't he have more fight scenes in this movie.Bolo Yeung was only in one real fight scene that I can remember,I hoped to see more of him,because he has one of the sickest styles ever.Dont let the cover fool you,this is nothing what it could have been..
A great film...if you're 12..
My brother plays "Moose" in this film.
Although most of his scenes were left on the cutting room floor.
The funniest line is the movie is "nothing wong with stat." So anyway, this is filmed in Portland, OR, where we grew up.
The dance club is/was called "Up Front FX".
What I loved about this movie is that the main character (who is not named on the box because Bolo brings more clout) is supposed to be a police detective...a great opportunity to drive around in a red convertible Porsche.
I need to get a copy of this, preferably the director's cut, so I can see all the scenes my brother is in.
The only scene he is in is the beginning when they are in the dance club.
He got the spot because he was dating this cheerleader from a semi-pro football team called The Oregon Thunderbolts.
It is interesting because his name comes up as the first entry in IMDb. Fame has him, fortune, not so much..
A few insights.
While I agree that this was the most horrendous movie ever made, I am proud to say I own a copy simply because myself and a bunch of my friends were extras (mostly in the dance club scenes, but a few others as well.
This movie had potential with Bolo and the director of Enter the Dragon signed on, but as someone who was on set most every day I can tell you that Robert Clouse was an old and confused individual, at least during the making of this movie.
It was a wonder he could find his way to the set everyday.
I would also like to think that this might have been a better movie if a lot of it had not been destroyed in a fire at Morning Calm studios.
I can't say that it would have been for sure, but it would be nice to think so.
I was actually surprised that it was ever released, and that someone like Bolo would attach his name to it without a fight.
Also look at the extras for pro wrestler Scott Levy, AKA Raven.
He was a wrestler in Portland at the time...nice guy, very smart..
At least Bolo is in it.
Me and a couple of friends went to rent some movies one day,  we picked one each and one of us picked Ironheart.
Lets just say that from now on, we never let him pick a movie.
This movie sucks.
How much would you pay to laugh at a horrible film?.
I saw this on sale - NEW - at my local store for $6 and said "hey!
an action film with that guy from Bloodsport and Enter the Dragon, directed by the guy who did Enter the Dragon - and it's cheap!" So I bought it.
Oops!
This is possibly the worst film I've ever seen, and I've seen some doozies.You know how movies which are intentionally campy, like Evil Dead II and Dead-Alive, are AWESOME?
You know how movies that are supposed to be serious but turned out so awful that you have to laugh out loud, and watch them again, like Lionheart (an old Van Damme film) or John Carpenter's Vampires, are pretty cool?
This film, Ironheart, manages to be NEITHER of those.
I don't know what the filmmakers were thinking, but it looks as if this movie was made with no time to shoot, no budget for anything, and no script to speak of.
(While I'm on the script note, I should point out that Bolo Yeung has NO LINES in this movie - the only reason he gets first billing on the box is the fact that he's the only actor in the film that you'll ever recognize (unless you're a Jackie Chan fan, in which case you'll recognize the bad guy - and you'll want to call him Giancarlo!).)What's also sad is that this film is from '92.
By that time, T2: Judgment day had come out, so you know that the era of 80s campiness was over...
After this, you'll think 80s Chuck Norris films, high-school comedies, and Jason/Freddy sequels were works of sheer genius.
Things to know:1) Nobody in this film can act for beans.
The closest you get is Richard Norton looking appropriately rich and cocky, and Bolo Yeung looking appropriately mean ...
and cocky.
Everything else is dreadful.2) The martial arts scenes are forgettable - just many instances of white guys with lots of muscles taking off their shirts, yelling, running at Britton Lee, getting kicked by Britton Lee, getting punched by Britton Lee, then falling down.
Even the final showdown against Bolo is disappointingly short, and about as creative as the design of my running socks (and equally stinky).3) The rest of the action is pathetic, too: the guns look like they came from the toy department at K-Mart, and indeed they fire with the sound of a capgun.
When someone gets shot, they bounce around a little bit, then lie still with splotches of brownish-red liquid on their clothes.
Britton Lee apparently gets shot in the side, but you don't see it at all, then later that day you see the wound ...
I've had paper cuts that were worse than that!4) Of course then the girl dresses the wound, then they kiss, then next thing you know they're lying in bed talking after sex.
Huh?
Believable development of the love interest, as well as any kind of character development at all, are overlooked completely in this film.
Remember how Bruce Lee's characters didn't need to have sex with anybody to be cool?5) The car chase is by far the worst I've ever seen.
It looks like the director was sitting on the curb with a hand-held camera as the two cars weaved down the road doing, oh I don't know, about 30 miles an hour?
Don't try this at home, kids, these people are professionals!
Hah!6) Really bad writing.
Here's a scene for you: Lee is being followed, so the girl follows the followers to "warn" Lee, but her car is too slow.
So by the time she catches up, Lee and the bad guys are out of their cars and there's a gunfight in progress.
Lee has killed two bad guys, but the third is shooting at Lee when the girl almost runs Lee over, so the bad guy runs away.
(Huh?) Then the girl's car stalls and she can't start it.
She tells Lee she's involved now and she's coming with him.
He points out to her that they can't leave her car there because the bad guys will trace it to her.
She somehow convinces him that he should decide how to deal with this problem - so he shoots the gas tank and blows up her car.
(And remember, later that same night they have sex.) Huh?!?7) If you look closely, in more than half of the nightclub shots, the dancers are very much out of sync with the music.
The dancers are also all way too co-ordinated with each other (apparently in the '80s all people at dance clubs took dancing lessons).
There is a girl in the DJ booth with a microphone, but she never does anything except dance.
The bouncers tell people who are fighting to "take it outside" - without moving their lips.
In one scene, the only bouncers Lee and Stevo pass by are just inside the entrance, but with their backs to it!
Also, apparently, if you're a major character in the film, you can go straight to the head of the line.8) Lee notices the first time he is being followed, but he doesn't notice the second time - even though it's the same guy in the same car.
The girl, however, notices.
Bad guys get followed twice, but they never notice.9) Lee is worried the bad guys will trace the girl's car back to her, even though they have already seen him show up where she works twice.
The girl proceeds to leave her child at work, in the care of a friend, while she is off having sex with Lee. DO NOT learn parenting from this film!Can't think of more gripes right now ...
you get the idea ...
Ironheart is so bad, it ain't even funny, it's SAD..
YEESSSAAAHH!!.
I think that just sums up this film.
Watch it and you'll find out why.
The acting of the lead character John Keem is really, really bad and he has no on screen charisma whatsoever.
It's very funny because of this thought, as is the ending where Keem beheads the bad guy despite the fact he is unarmed and has surrendered.
Brilliant!.
utter rubbish & meaningless crap.
1 Bolo Yeung is in the movie ten minutes altogether including when he's serving iced drinks to his boss.
2 a lot of street thugs looking like junkyard keepers get instantly overpowered by the Asian superhero who talks like an illegal alien just out of the back of a manure truck.
3 (thug) let this to me -shirt off, gay model like muscles- heee-haaw!
hee-heeew!
hap hap!
- he's dead on the floor with his neck, elbow, chin or balls broken - 4 cheap semi-sex scenes where the white broad come out of nowhere digs the Asian superhero.
5 Norton (former C action movies star ) does nothing but pose as an eccentric trendy weapon smuggler who traffics white slutty girls hand picked at a night club where they willingly follow some idiot posing as a millionaire snapping at them ( you reap what you sow ) 6 yes, the local police captain is involved and yes, the first butchered cop is the former patrol teammate of the super-hero ( yaawn!
). 7 Action scenes are fake, like A) hee-haw!
Chinese tries some spinning kick B) skinny leg of Chinese to the throat of negro thug C) finishing death move to his head too much like Walker Texas ranger fake action 8 end titles finallyutter rubbish.
Those people are good enough only to be stand ins or body doubles in other C movies and be credited AT MOST collectively as "stunt crew provided by the county prison ".