Blood Street

Leo Fong reprises the role of P.I. Joe Wong from LOW BLOW (indeed it was) in this direct-to-video action flick. Wong gets caught up in the middle of a gang war between Richard Norton and some Italian guy when the Italian guy's wife (Playboy Playmate Kym Paige) requests his services.

This is really Fong at his best/worst. There is the requisite voice over, which he delivers with no emotion, and fight scenes/shoot outs that are so clumsy and poorly filmed. But this is the Fong charm. He gets in lots of lovely shots of San Francisco and there are a few bits that are an absolute hoot, like when the sexy Paige attempts to seduce the not-having-any-of-it Fong. Fong staple Stack Pierce has a supporting role and martial arts fave Norton proves he is not above charity work by starring as the villain. Highly recommended for Fong-o-philes (© me sucka!).

I saw this film a few years ago and the main reason for getting it was due to the fact that Leo Fong and Stack Pierce were in another film together. I was expecting to see Cameron Mitchell pop up somewhere but it didn't happen.

Leo Fong again reprises his role as PI and he's not to bad in this one. I think that Leo Fong displays here some of his acting ability , or is it just charisma ? Well whatever it is Leo Fong is good ! Some great action scenes from him and the one with him beating up some guys in the bar is great ! The story isn't bad and with the way it comes off , the movie is quite enjoyable. Stack Pierce of course is great as Solomon and he's always convincing. I'll pick up the DVD of this one as its always good to catch again.

It proved to be a singularly implausible exercise resisting the bellicose charms of underrated, and overheated, 'Blood Street', a gnarly low budget actioner starring a deadly duo of pyrotechnically gifted fight technicians, sensei, Leo Fong and the estimable antipodean Kung Fu super-villain, Richard Norton, plus having the iconoclastic, Mr. Fong as the film's director guarantees that the engagingly rough n' tumble fight-flick, 'Blood Street' is an absolutely essential watch for all avid martial art maniacs!

Hardened gangster, skeevey wrongdoer, and powerful drug kingpin, Malcolm Boyd (Richard Norton) fatefully picked a fight with the 'Wong' guy, and I bet you all the ox manure in China that stalwart P. I Joe Wong will always get his man, more dogged than Sherlock Bones, spunkier than Harry Reams, and if y'all do Mighty Joe Wong wrong he's got a deadly, tibia-thrashing trick with a hickory stick that'll split your wig lickety split!!!!!

What started out as a routine case of a too-beautiful wife, Vanna (Kim Paige) and a missing ne'er-do-well husband Macdonald (Stan Wertlieb), very soon erupted into bloody B-Movie gangland war on the increasingly crimson streets of San Francisco! When rival drug barons, MacDonald and Boyd go at one another like blood-feuding gypsies, the steel-fisted Shamus, Wong finds himself dead bang in the squalling midst of a gruesome turf war with the icy blond, Vanna expertly playing one side against the other like some bodaciously put together card shark, but the one stubborn dick she can't handle, totally oblivious to her altogether deadly charms is the dynamite '2 hit Wong', his 1st hit opens up your noggin like a ripe cantaloupe and the 2nd hit is your comatose rear hitting the floor!

It's all in a day's work for the intractable, shotgun-blasting, lightning-fisted Kung Fu private Eye, rarely shaken but never stirred, 2 parts, Sam Spade and 3 parts, Bruce Lee, if you cross this savage, street savvy sleuth you're gonna be history! Leo Fong's bravura B-Actioner 'Blood Street' brings the street savvy 80s Kung Fu heat like no other, and super hard dick Wong just won't be beat!!!'

Leo Fong is the King of American Kung Fu Movies and Guerrilla Film Making and he always delivers. Watching this movie is an indulgent taste of uninhibited and truly independent film making and the action scenes are shot with the classic techniques and without wires and special effects.

It's amazing that Leo Fong never sold out to the studio driven industry and ending up playing a serious of "character" parts, and instead he's held firm to his visions and created excellent, independent films for four decades.

If you think about it, he's an action star in his senior years who writes, directs and produces his own films - he's the Clint Eastwood of the independent film industry. He's also a pioneer of minority film making and guerrilla film making and he's increasing being recognized for his contribution to the history of cinema.

Blood street is a wonderful movie with delicate dialogues and an intriguing plot about a group of people that just don't seem to get along very well; the conflict is solved in a very surprising way! Leo Fong is a great actor; unfortunately he hasn't won any Academy Awards or Golden Globes but who knows ... maybe the Hollywood establishment will come to their senses and recognize the pure and sincere creative genius of this amazing actor. Leo is almost 90 years old and still kicking the living daylights out of his enemies ... this alone should convince the Oscars and GG members of jury to see Leo Fong for who he really is ... one of the best actors in the World!