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Unwatchable. Nearly.

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3 Jan 24th, 2007 

20 Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful

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Reasonable fight scenes, threatening villain

Disadvantages:
Poor lighting and sound; lack of script, plot and acting; and that mullet .

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Cynthia Rothrock plays a waitress, who moonlights as a gangfighter to earn money to put her sister through college. When her sister is one of the victims of a martial artist who is killing every woman who reminds him of his ex-wife, she goes looking for revenge.

Its not the deepest plot, but has a few nice moments (and bad puns). Basically the film exists as an excuse to string the fight scenes together and give the fighters a reason for combat. That's about it.

The plot as mentioned, is thin, the acting is poor, the script is not exactly Shakespeare and the quality of the video and audio on the DVD is not the greatest. Some of the violence is extremely graphic and unnecessary and the film definitely earned its eighteen rating.The villain is surprisingly threatening, despite wearing the worst eighties mullet ever seen. However, this film also provides a few good fight scenes and set pieces, and a chance to see Ms. Rothrock showing her skills. The fight scenes are the film's strong point, but they seem somewhat uninspired and there are no real stand-out moments. The trademark Scorpion Kick is strangely absent, and although the moves are fast, in places they seem jerky and choreographed.

As a direct to video release in the classic B-movie mould, and definitely showing it, this film is only really going to be of interest to martial arts fans and Cynthia Rothrock fans (this is not one of her better films). The plot twists are telegraphed early and often, and the fate of the eye-obsessed villain will not be a surprise.

The running time is 88 minutes. The film is available widely online in DVD format, but may be a little obscure to be found in stock in mainline high street stores. Budget DVD shops are quite likely to have a copy or be able to order it.

I bought the budget version of this film, which has no extras and only a standard scene select. As this costs £1.49 fans might want to give it a look, but otherwise definitely rent this before buying. However if you aren't a fan of martial arts films, this probably is one to miss.

 

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hippykiller 31.01.2007 01:15

looks ok and nice try with the review keep it up

beevorm 24.01.2007 22:12

I have a film of this type called Killers Invincible and it is as bad as your sounds... Mike

sigmatech 24.01.2007 17:05

Not for me but good review -Joe

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