Bloodfight / Ironheart Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.0
Video		3.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		0.5
Overall		3.0

Bloodfight / Ironheart Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman August 26, 2020

Bolo Yeung is 74 as this review is being written, and at least according to some online sources, he’s still alive and kicking (emphasis on that kicking part) enough to be making films as relatively recently as 2015 (or 2017 with regard to a United States release) for an outing known as The Whole World at Our Feet. That said, Yeung is probably best remembered for some martial arts infused entries from days of yore, having appeared in a number of still beloved films like Enter the Dragon, Drunken Master, and perhaps most memorably (at least for relatively younger fans), Bloodsport (note that the link points to another double feature Blu-ray that also offered Timecop). In one of those all too obvious “coincidences”, Yeung followed up his turn in Bloodsport with the similarly named Bloodfight, which offers Yeung in what amounts to a glorified cameo. Three years after Bloodfight came out, Yeung had a bit more of a featured role in Ironheart, a film which caught my personal eye since it was shot in my hometown of Portland, Oregon.

For reviews of the two films included on this release, please click on the following links:

Bloodfight Blu-ray review

Ironheart Blu-ray review

Bloodfight / Ironheart Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Bloodfight / Ironheart Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality of each film is assessed in the above linked reviews.

Bloodfight / Ironheart Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Unfortunately, the only supplements on this release are Trailers for both films, as well as other MVD Rewind Collection releases. For individual details, see the above linked reviews.

Bloodfight / Ironheart Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

You frankly get a lot more of Bolo Yeung in Ironheart than you do in Bloodfight, but fans of the actor and martial arts enthusiasts in general may find this double feature appealing enough, albeit in a kind of low rent way. For anyone who has either lived or visited Portland, though, Ironheart may have a certain nostalgic appeal, since it offers lots of views of the city as it was in the early nineties. Technical merits are a bit variant and I recommend seeing the individual reviews for complete assessments, for those who are considering a purchase.