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This is another one of those straight to video Thrillers & it's very good & alot of FUN!!! Some cool Action scenes & a cool urban setting with gangs everywhere & a good hero to root for in the very cool JEFF SPEAKMAN. Haven't seen really any of his movies but he is very good here i mean he's no van damme but he is cool in this film & it is a 90s Action Thriller & makes for a nice late night movie

Jeff Speakman followed up his solid action fare 'The Perfect Weapon' with 'Street Knight'. A disappointingly bland urban action which has Speakman (an ex-cop) caught between a street gang war (actually orchestrated by a third party), but instead of busting his way out of it. Everyone decided to go down a different path, which goes on to waste his talents (unlike 'The Perfect Weapon'). Instead focusing on dramatic plot cues and a script lined with probing leads and deep conversations for Speakman to sink his teeth into... yeah, not much talent there. Unless you like waiting around for over an hour to see Speakman do what you were originally hoping. When it does happen, after being slowed down by its monotonous story. It's not often, or particularly exciting. Quite half-hearted to have any real impact. So, it's a waste.

Interestingly this was the last film Cannon Films produced before bankruptcy. A forgettable way to go out on.

this second film starring Jeff Speakman does not live up to the first one,The Perfect Weapon,at least in terms of action,or story for that matter.i found it kinda boring.the martial arts sequences aren't as spectacular here.at least they they don't seem to be to me.there are no funny one liners here that i can recall,which The Perfect Weapon had.it's a pretty generic film,if you ask me.really,in my opinion this movie is no better than average for the genre.i wouldn't recommend it unless you really have nothing else to do.just be prepared to twiddle your thumbs.for me,the absolute most i can muster for Street Knight is a 5/10

Jeff Speakman stars as Jake an ex-cop who is still reeling from the death of a hostage, who he feels responsible for, however he finds a chance for redemption when a group of cops try to provoke a gang war so they can take over the streets in this overall boring actioner. Jeff Speakman may have some good moves but this and his other clunker (The Perfect Weapon) fail to impress. Street Knight is an overall loser, well worth avoiding.

One of those movies where the hero is a noble white man trapped between two rival gangs on the eve of war. Here Speakman's been hired to find a kid just as the local African-American and Hispanic gangs are getting ready to kill each other. In fact, the kid's in hiding ever since he inadvertently discovered that the upcoming gang war is being fomented by evil white guys looking to knock over a jewelry store. Fifty years ago it would've been a B-Western with Neville Brand, maybe, and Apaches and Homesteaders.

Speakman's not a bad actor, although he's not especially charismatic and tends to feel more workmanlike than anything else. The fight scenes are good and a bit more extended than is common for this era, although I could've stood more fighting more generally. The plot doesn't make a lick of sense (why foment a gang war? Why not just rob the jewelry store?) and the lead bad guy's a bit, uh, flamboyant. Not especially bad, just pretty much forgettable.