Low Blow

1986 "The deadliest weapon is still your fist."
Low Blow
4| 1h30m| R| en| More Info
Released: 01 April 1986 Released
Producted By: Crown International Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://www.crownintlpictures.com/lntitles.html
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Joe Wong is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...

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Bezenby Cameron Mitchell's career is varied to say the least. One minute he's Minessota Clay, next he's a crazed gangster in Medusa, or a cop in The Nightmare Never Ends. If it was possible to speak to him today, I'd set myself down next to him at a bar, slide him a beer and say "Hey Cam, what was the easiest gig you ever did?" Unfortunately he can't answer, but I'm sure he would have said: "Probably that martial arts film where I didn't even need to get out of a seat, wore sunglasses, mumbled a lot, and groped a young actress." That film would be Low Blow, an action film starring Mitchell (who was an ex-special forces bar man in Codename Vengeance), Leo Fong, with an appearance by Stack Pierce (of Pyshic Killer 'fame'). Fong is an ex-cop turned PI, who seems to spend his time dealing with endemic street crime in San Francisco. While he's out kicking the heads in of two bag snatchers, he's spotted and hired by businessman John Templeton, in order to rescue his daughter from a cheesy new age cult (led by Mitchell (who played a crap cop in The Demon), but run with an iron fist by his daughter/wife!). Mitchell (who was a slick businessman in Memorial Valley Massacre), who wears sunglasses, a hooded robe, and a star on his cheek, seems oblivious to all the armed guards and beating and rambles on about the meek and says 'Blessed' a lot.Fong pays a visit to the cult's plantation and immediately gets into bother with hired goons hanging around the place. He ends up rescuing a dude but reckons he's gonna need back up to get the businessman's daughter back, and you know what that means, right? Correct: A fairly pointless fighting competition, complete with Stack Pierce, ninjas, and a strong woman. Gang assembled, they all head off for a final showdown at the plantation (which involves needlessly killing hired goons whom, up until that point, had hardly hurt anyone.You won't get much in the way of gore in this film (except for the bit where Fong stamps his foot right through a guy's face!) as Low Blow is played more for laughs than anything. This is just as well, as some of the acting is dodgy to say the least (especially Fong's secretary). Mitchell as usual just falls into the roll smoothly (he always seems to be enjoying himself, which is why I enjoy most films he's in), put I wouldn't put this high up on your list of films to see. It's good enough, but no classic, that Low Brow film.
dbborroughs Leo Fong play Joe Wong a detective who is hired by a rich man to rescue his daughter from a religious cult headed by Cameron Mitchell. Somewhere just past silly this is a film with not very good action. There are times when you'll be laughing too hard at the alleged fight scenes that you may bang your head on the chair in front of you. The film opens with Fong thwarting a robbery in a local diner because he's bored. After killing all the bad guys he saunters out saying that the cook should forget his sandwich. I don't know what to say this is a really silly movie. If you want a silly action film give it a try, otherwise there are better ways to spend your time. (It should be pointed out that action stalwart and work out guru Billy Blanks who is listed in the promotional material on some of the DVD cases and is toward the top of the cast list here on IMDb, has little more than a glorified walk on as a camp guard.)
dolphlundgren87 I wouldn't be surprised if this movie was made on a $500 budget with its bad acting an ultra poor sound quality. I bought the DVD for $3.00, and after watching it I felt like I had payed $2.95 too much.The DVD cover displays a steroid freak (main character), a huge truck and a group of 80's punk rockers with M16 machine guns. Well, in the actual movie, there was no truck, no 80's punks and the main character was far from a steroid freak.The most enjoyable thing about this movie was the main character's bomb car and his mad parking techniques, but other than that it's a complete waste of time. Although this movie is a great cure for insomnia, my advice would be to avoid it.
Mark Kram When i see movies like this i dread to think of the amount of money and time wasted on such a completely horrendously awful piece of cinematic train-wreckage. By being this awful, it makes for a great comedy. I found this movie on DVD for $3 Australian (About 1.50 us) in a local electronics store. I had a spare 3 bucks and me being a fan of the martial arts genre, i thought why not. Well now i can think of plenty of reasons why not. The movie is about Joe Wong, a P.I. who wears a dirty singlet and doesn't pay bills. i THINK he is sleeping with his secretary but nothing is ever really explained in this movie. As stated in another review of this film, there is absolutely no continuity, and the synchronization of the punches looks as though it was handled by stevie wonder. But i was able to watch the whole thing as i was generally entertained by the absolute badness. Some of the things that kept me going include: -Bad quiet dialogue not even loud enough to hear over the music -Joe not being able to pay his bills, but being bale to set up a 'toughman' contest with thousands of dollars in prize money. -The sandwich shop fight scene, and all other fight scenes, after which Joe is never ever questioned by police despite killing 5 or 6 people each fight. -The lack of contact with any of the punches and kicks in the movie. - The atrocious, atrocious scene where Joe punches a man in the face, exploding it.(On closer slow motion inspection, the head appears to be made of rubber, the skin is a horrible brown, the mustache is painted on and the brains coming out the side is mince meat)Unbelievably bad, but a fantastic laugh if you enjoy poorly made movies that are an actual attempt at a film.