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'Deadly Outbreak' aka 'Deadly Takeover' is a Nu Image title that has the formula down pat. You get introduced to the head villain, a pretty lady scientist and the hero main character with his young son in a warm likeable moment all with the first 3 minutes. However the action is standard and breaks no new ground.

Sgt. Hatfield (Jeff Speakman) from the American embassy in Tel Aviv is assigned to escort a group of scientists from the airport to a chemical research facility. The head turns out to be disgruntled former Colonel Baron (Ron Silver) stealing a dangerous compound while blackmailing Washington. When he takes complete control of the place it's up to Hatfield with the help of Dr. Levin (Rochelle Swanson) to stop them.

Of the dtv flicks Speakman was resigned to after 'The Perfect Weapon', I choose this because Ron Silver was in it and he can play a good villain. He gets some lines to chew on and deliver in his satisfying manner. Of course Speakman is up to the task of beating people and firing off guns. You get to see him perform a bunch of kenpo karate. Oddly Swanson (Sorceress) who looks good never gets naked.

Every part of 'Deadly Outbreak' is strictly generic. Feeling like a retread with scenes you've seen a million times before, stock characters and a poor musical score. It's competently made, but not at all memorable.

Aside from Ron Silver's usual wonderful, icy cool performance as the villain, the best thing about this Lethal Weapon knock-off is seeing how many action cliches you can spot. Deadly Outbreak is low-budget actioneer of the type that would star Segal, Willis or Van Damme if they had had any kind of a budget, but instead settles for a bunch of unknowns running through the most inane series of situations you can imagine (whenever someone isn't kicking someone else in the groin, or killing another hostage). Indeed, if you didn't know better, you'd think this was a Scary Movie-type of send-up of the genre. The Israeli setting gives the feeling that the producers got a subsidy from the government in order to attract some filmmaking business to Tel Aviv.

Probably the best thing you can say for this production is that for what must have been an extremely low budget, they managed to blow up an *extremely* large number of vehicles, planes, factories and what-not. All that said, however, the actors are not completely unattractive, and my teenage daughter says that I shouldn't be too hard on the movie. It still doesn't rate higher than a 3, though. Sorry!

This was one of the weakest Speakman's film, I can freely say that he corrected this mistake with The Expert (1995), but no luck after that much. Anyhoo, Speakman plays sgt. Hatfield who escorts evil Colonel Baron to a biochemical laboratory in Israel, than the evil Colonel Baron takes over the building and sets his goals to the American government… you know, the usual, typical stuff… half a billion dollars… a bus to a airfield… and that's because he's a madman who wasn't treated nice in the army… poor psycho baby. So, the whole plot turns into a cliché, with one man army who fights off mercenaries, just like in Die Hard films and Under Siege films… only with Jeff Speakman as the leading hero, using his Kenpo karate to defeat bad guys. Very low budget film, not too much satisfying for watcher, lousy action scenes, special effects and music score… but Jeff was solid in his fight scenes. Try not to pay attention to acting, the actors are not doing that well, OK, except for Ron Silver. And, how did he get here? I thought that Silver was a big name in bigger films and was a good actor indeed. I really don't understand how did Silver ended up in this low budget crap? Don't expect some solid acting from Speakman, nor from anybody else, not even from the smoking hot scientist Rochelle Swanson whom Speakman is trying to charm pathetically through the film, that romantic connection was very stupid. So, I don't recommend this film that much to anyone, well maybe for Speakman fans, they'll love it.

A movie with decent budget, let down by poor execution. It would have been much better in the hands of better director, editor and soundtrack.

Ron silver is reliable and gives credibility.

Jeff is good, give it a shot.

Oh well it's a good Action movie for what it was I say give it a watch if just for Jeff Speakman Action very poor Story