The Perfect Weapon

Plot synopsis:
Jeff Sanders (Jeff Speakman) leads a double life: by day, he is a simple, unassuming construction worker, and by night, an expert Kenpo student and master of his craft.
When Jeff lost his mother as a teenager, he became an outcast and frequently lashed out at his family and society in an attempt to assuage his anger. His father, Captain Sanders (Beau Starr), gained the idea from a mutual friend, Kim (Mako), to enroll Jeff in a Kenpō school to better manage his rage and feelings. However, he got into a fight with a bully who beat up his younger brother, and severely injured him with his martial arts. Displeased with his lack of self-control, Jeff's father forced him to move out of home. Jeff, now estranged from his family and living alone, continued with his courses in Kenpo and eventually gained Kim as a mentor and father figure.
Jeff decides to return to his old neighborhood and visit his mentor Kim when he detects that Kim is in danger. Jeff discovers that Kim is having trouble with local Korean mafia families, due to his refusal to pay them off and use his antique store to peddle drugs. Jeff helps out Kim by beating up the people who attacked his store which leads to Kim being murdered in his bed by hit-man Tanaka (Professor Tanaka).
Jeff vows to avenge Kim's death and is determined to find out who ordered Kim's murder. He remembers a boy named Jimmy (Dante Basco) who lived with Kim, and tries to find him to ask if he knows about the murder. However, Jeff's estranged younger brother Adam (John Dye), now also a cop, is investigating the case, and warns Jeff against trying to settle matters in his own hands. In his hunt to exact revenge, Jeff is approached by a mafia boss named Yung (James Hong) who claims to be Kim's friend and knew of a possible lead to Kim's killer. Jeff is directed to Sam, one of the mafia bosses in Korea town, who was believed to be the one who ordered Kim's death. However, upon breaking into Sam's residence and attempting to kill him, Jimmy appears to reveal that Sam was Kim's friend and was the one who took him in for protection. Jimmy also explains that Yung is the one responsible for Kim's death, and he was merely attempting to use Jeff as a weapon to kill his rival boss Sam.
Jeff now plans to kill Yung, but Jimmy warns him that Yung is always protected by his hit-man Tanaka. In order to eliminate Tanaka, Jeff asks Jimmy to falsely testify (to Adam) that he witnessed Tanaka murdering Kim. The plan is have Adam arrest Tanaka so that Jeff can get Yung alone to kill him. Adam and the police eventually capture Tanaka after a long car chase, but to Jeff's dismay Yung was not in the car with him. Tanaka is attacked with a taser, but later manages to escape from the police by severely injuring Adam and breaking out of the police car.
Jimmy overhears that Yung plans to escape the country by boat, and tells Jeff about Yung's drug factory. Now further fueled for vengeance, Jeff sets out to attack Yung's drug factory, using his martial art skills and various weapons to defeat guards and hitmen protecting Yung. He eventually subdues Yung, but is attacked by Tanaka. Although Tanaka gains the upper hand during their fight, Jeff manages to kill Tanaka by setting fire to a gas tank he was standing next to. Despite initially wanting to kill Yung, in the end Jeff decides to capture him alive (showing he has learned self-control) and turns Yung in to his father, Captain Sanders.
The film ends with Jeff entering the kenpo dojo to visit his former master.

Tags: violence

Review:
No danger of any accidental spoilers here....this absolute rubbish so called movie is a spoiler from start to finish.The most absurd part of it is that the actors seem to be reading from cue cards and are operating under some strange rule that says that they must all speak at the same speed..ie..
so many words per minute.As for story/plot/directing/dialogue etc....the kindest thing I can do is to make no comment.Steven Segal made some decent movies in his early days....then disappeared from the scene only to re-emerge and pollute our screens with incredible rubbish.
There really should be some kind of law protecting the public from this kind of abuse.Additionally, I think that these so called movies are Segals only chance to get his hands on young vulnerable women in naked and semi-naked states without the risk of being arrested.Having said all that.....I strongly recommend that you get hold of a free copy of this so called movie (do not spend any money) and pass it along to as many people as possible with the condition that they also pass it on to as many people as possible.
That way....having watched it, people will never again run the risk of watching another Segal movie which may have the same effect as antivirus/antimalware software, and prevent the release of any more of this rubbish.
All in all bad special effects, bad acting, goofy ripoff plot, really bad 'fight' scenes, yeah, it's a Steven Seagal movie all right.
This has Steven Segal all over it, poor plot line, pacing all over the place and B grade to bone.
I couldn't stay from watching this flick due to Mr. Seagal in sci-fi genre and I really enjoyed it for some reasons.
I like the visual performance of it - it's a new look for Seagal movie and it's with no doubt stylish and fresh.
I ask everybody here not to judge The Perfect weapon in terms of A-list movies because of inappropriate levels of budgets, promotion, stuff etc.
But in a raw of directly to video movies its really decent piece of art that makes a better impression IMHO than preliminary waiting.
I would say comparing to Sniper: special ops, The Asian connection, Code of honor this flick is a really masterpiece (once again tribute to its budget, short shooting period and young director who makes his first steps in action genre).
I mean that during watching ordinary directly to video you decrease the scale of your inner critic to accept the faults every time you suffer from some trademark lacks in professionalism that are usual things for this type of flicks.
We got used to the opposite for the last time and that was young man - Mr.Paar who inspired Steven and offered him the role that fit his physical and mental personality very well so personally I could enjoy his short but decent appearance.
After a war, The Director (Steven Seagal) rules The State by permanent observation of everyone.
The killer Condor (Johnny Messner) fulfils his latest mission to eliminate a politician opposing the Director.
The Controller (Richard Tyson) thinks that Condor needs re-programming to become an effective killing machine again.
Together, they begin a fight against the rule of the Director.This could have been an interesting movie with a better lead actor (Messner is a poor man's Vin Diesel here), three times the budget and a reworked script (it holds some real surprises, but some dialogues made me cringe).
For probably the first time in a decade, Seagal gets a different role than the usual retired CIA agent - but that's not enough to save an ambitious, yet unconvincing sci-fi flick..
Really, really bad action movie, with even worse writing.
On a side note this is the worst "movie" assassin I think has ever been penned to paper, really you are going to go back to your home after escaping?
Every actor spoke at the same speed with no emotion, it almost felt like Steven Segal was their voice coach.
I struggled hard to find something about this movie that was redeemable but I found myself dreading having to watch the inevitable "boss" battle between the main character and Steven Segal's character at least it was brief.
I wish I could send the studio a bill for my time watching this movie.
There were so many executive producers I felt like they had to beg a lot of people for the money just to make this movie..
Steven Seagal has done some good, or at least watchable, films.
He has also done a lot of mediocre and less films, indicative of laziness and that Seagal was well past his sell by date, and a good deal of them are even very bad.'The Perfect Weapon' is one of the very bad ones, though not 'Contract to Kill' awful, almost anything is better than that.
Did not expect much, but watched it because Seagal has shown signs that he can be halfway decent and as said not all his films are bad.
'The Perfect Weapon' is far from that, more closer to a waste of time that shows little signs of trying.Seagal himself, in a role that is much shorter than is advertised (what is it with all this misleading marketing?), gives yet another lazy and wooden performance that shows that he was not interested and wanted to be somewhere else.
1/10 Bethany Cox. Not A Perfect Action Movie With Steven Seagal but still worth watching.
Steven Seagal Sometimes in his new least action movies sometimes he is just cameo in movie.
but not in at all he did only some action in movie i thought it was OK action scenes of him but lead actor (Johnny Messner)was in Anacondas,Tears of Sun.Johnny Messner who plays Hit-man getting contact to kill people i liked action scenes I Liked Actors in movie not just Steven Seagal I Mean we all love him but I wish if he was lead role for fans but no its director film Titus Paar decides to get Johnny Messner as lead role he is good actor i didn't think he is terrible but could of got Seagal as lead role instead.
Pilot and story i like all twist there is a very good twist that you wont expect at all but there is not Punching holes in movie or confusing staff in it.
Story Follows in America 2045 In the not so distant future, society is controlled by the powerful State and a dictator (Steven Seagal)plays like a King or like Dictator character known as the Director.
he got contact to Kill People he Kills a lot of people as i said he is playing Hit-man Agent 47 but expect he doesn't have a Barcode on his back of his head,(Richard Tyson) Controller he is Giving Contacts To Kill People Is Giving Orders to Condor because they say he is Best Hit-man to hire he has connections with Director, Condor had order to kill woman she is Revenant he didn't Kill Her Because It Kinda Reminded of his Past Loved One so he didn't kill her at all.
Controller had a meeting with Director saying make him as Perfect Weapon Make Him Into A Killing Machine Powerful Then He Was Before.
they go together again, Con has loved one in past Nina (Sasha Jackson) thought He killed her but soon happens something else Happens Condor is memory erased that they stole his memory and steal it, it solved everything like it never happened but soon he found out from Nina he is going out there to take out director but he is not really bad guy well kinda, but he is not really main villain in movie.
i really love the great twist in movie pilot that you might think it is going to That Direction But It's Not Same Cliché as what you might think it is but i never want to spoil film it has a lot of great fight scenes well done made there is no fake action scenes or Explosions like code of honor bull crap, Johnny Messner kicked ass in movie specially a lot of combat fighting scenes in movie and a lot of shooting in movie and Condor getting his ass kicked buy director Steven Seagal scene witch i think scene did well no cut to cut crap.
Steven Seagal the only thing i got to say is he talks in movie but doesn't do any big things like he is lead role if he is then he should be doing something in film but he is not lead role, i love idea of scene of movie that you will be like WTF scene where he was talking about in story before Condor became the Perfect Weapon, there was someone else like him but different guy, guy is bold wearing same suit like lead character, Steven Seagal kicks him buy a kill, then you see Young looking Steven Seagal look on his face CGI looks like younger like in his early 90s where he did a lot great films like i am talking about like Paul Walker CGI in Fast 7 but expect this Young Looking Steven Seagal is not best CGI but still did a great job on it and a lot of work but expect it's like 1 or 5 million dollar budget movie not biggest budget but the thing is lead role of movie but Dolph Lundgren was going to be Condor i think he would be better then Johnny Messner Lundgren does anything better in movies it would be Lundgren VS Seagal it's not really Steven Seagal movie but i don't understand why it stars off but i all i understand because he was very popular actor doing great movies way back of days in early 90's.
the plot and twist is so good keeps on watching in a very low budget style but i wish they could of give more Seagal to do in movie i would like to see that happen in movie.
but i don't understand why is cast lead role star's off in poster but in trailers and when you see movie he not lead role it's someone part of movie, but still worth watching movie it's Not Because Seagal And Action It Does Have Style of Action And Story Like Hit-man Agent 47 And Jason Bourne Style of story but it's not a biggest rip off it has noting do with Jeff Speakman Perfect Weapon (1991)i would say 6.10 not best movie to see with Seagal but you still get to see him in action but as lead role in movie is Johnny Messner but still see Seagal in movie but didn't do anything in movie.
action is fun and not to be missed ending there is credits scene of ending of movie that you won't at all still worth watching movie 6.10.
All I could think of watching this was "I saw the movie Hit-man".
I love Steven Seagal movies, I am a fan of his too for decades but this movie was terrible, the futurist movies I hate and Steven plus took a back seat in it.
And when get a Steven Seagal movie I want to see Steven, main person not in the background like some extra, as he was in these two movies.
Next stop 'the future' for Steven Seagal.
In a totalitarian state in the near future the victor of a civil war called "The Director", played by Seagal, aims to destoy his enemies using reprogrammed assassins.
Poor dialogue with ham-fisted exposition mars this picture and it has plot twists that effectively cheat the viewer of an ending.
Otherwise, it has some good action and there is a decent enough story premise, and the visual effects are reasonable.
There are several scenes that are pretty ok but to be honest they could've done better, Yes, Its a Steven Seagal Movie but they just used his name to give this movie a little boost.
Just watch his old movies.
Who knew a movie with almost no plot could have so many twists.
Really cool 90's throwback action movie that fits Seagal!!!.
I watched the movie yesterday and I thought it was great.
Great story, cool action, cool actors and it felt as a throwback to the old action/sf movies.
I really hope he gets to work with Seagal (or other action stars like Van Damme, Lundgren because I like them also) again, because he did a great job and knows how to shoot action.
I watch movies quite often both in cinema and at home.
This is one very unusual, very good movie, produced with extraordinary deep thought and mind.
I really hope he stops making movies like this.
"The Perfect Weapon" begins like a sequel to George Orwell's novel "1984." The year is now 2029, and it is the essence of the mind control exerted by Big Brother, as conceived by Orwell.But instead of developing a strong theme about human freedom, "The Perfect Weapon" is a muddled and excessively violent action/revenge film.The two main characters are named Condor and Nina, and they presumably are the two rebels who value freedom and want to free the world from Big Brother.
In the moment that follows, the film falls completely flat with the decision made by our "perfect weapon" named Condor.This film has received one of the lowest numerical rankings I have ever seen on IMDb. Those low numbers tell the whole story about this film turkey..
"Killer Dogs" director Titus Paar's fifth feature film "The Perfect Weapon" ranks as a subpar, Orwellian, sci-fi thriller set in 2029 America where a repressive totalitarian state maintains 24/7 surveillance.
Condor's lapse in judgment prompts the Controller (Richard Tyson of "Black Hawk Down") to point a gun in his face and tell him he must have his emotions purged.
The Controller surprises both Condor and us when he blasts the top of the Interrogator's head off.
Initially, the Director trounces Condor and then struggles to reason with his best killer.
Mind you, the Director should have killed Condor, but you cannot kill the hero of the movie.
Condor is in the Director's lair when he sees the video of the Controller's revelations.
The film takes place in 2029, however it is more like Orwell's "1984." The Director (Steven Seagal) is watching and uses The Controller (Richard Tyson) to maintain law and order through operators such as Condor (Johnny Messner).
He is tasked to put down the rebellion, those who speak about freedom, although those against government oversight look like organized crime...a film with all bad guys.Condor fails a mission and is destined for "reprogramming" but things don't go as planned.
Once Steven Seagal shows up, the movie goes downhill.
The film has twists you don't see coming, the final one was simply for the sake of having a twist, and it was dumb, most likely a Seagal insertion.Guide: Brief sex and nudity.
I recently caught Seagal's film "A Good Man", and it was a shocker to see how old and out of shape he's gotten, not so good for a former action star.
Like the most inept team of assassins ever, firing upon the story's protagonist, Axon Rey, the Condor (Johnny Messner), and his former girlfriend Nina (Sasha Jackson), somehow miraculously brought back from the dead, until we find out it was a body double that was buried in her place.
Does Steven Seagal actually need the money to appear in and produce a picture this bad?
A Steven Seagal Stinkfest.
And the year of Seagal continues, with this, his take on 1984's Big Brother, and oh my gosh, is it poor stuff......In the not so distant future (is there any other kind of future?), society is controlled by a powerful State and a very strangely haired, goateed, former credible action star dictator known as the Director.
Condor works as a hit-man (47) for the State, but a reunion with someone he thought was dead forces him to consider who his enemies really are.........Seagal has had some stinkers this year, from the Sniper film, to the Asian Connection, to he one with Craig Sheffer in, and another one where the title is part of a weapon.But now he's ventured back into science fiction, and if you thought Attack Force and Against The Dark were bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.Seagal is thankfully barely in it, but that means you only have to be intolerant with another 'actor' who is trying to be Agent 47, but comes across as a seriously constipated mute.Everyone is being watched, no one is safe, and in this dystopian future, you really couldn't care less what happens or if Seagal's director will be overthrowed.It all ends with Seagal looking morbidly obese, explaining to Hit-man about life and how good the early nineties were to him, but it tries to fool the viewer with a twist, and if you are a Seagal fan (which you must be if your watching this trash), then you will know the final scene is lifted straight from Marked For Death.And then there's the promise of a sequel..
Bad movie, unless you prepare for a beat the baddies and some "message" from the director.
Other reviews got it spot on, but basically the errors within the movie are painful to watch sometimes.
No good can come from this and the hidden message is clear enough if you understand "police state" and "facebook" + "google"...there are better movies depicking these topics.
this movie is painful to watch, direction errors, people don't seem to talk yet you hear them, somewhat plot holes and the kills...
overall, a bad movie.Who is gonna read my review if others written better ones?
There is some cute blonde girl in the movie and Seagal is fighting bad...
And ..MESSAGE TO Steven seagal: do you really intend for a second movie?