This movie was a complete hash-up with scenes from 'Fatal Chase' and 'Hard to Kill' (not Seagal by the way). They had a revenge plot going on with a Manila cop whom Yukari is partnered up with so he can get the syndicate leader who killed his brother. That plot is thrown out the window and we're introduced to the Manila cop's girlfriend who survived an attempt on her life at the hands of the syndicate, but was listed as dead and recruited into a police organization that kills criminals rather than arrest them (I smell a "La Femme Nikita" plot here already).

This woman's name is Rosa Lam and she's partnered with two other females, the friendly but vicious Lisa and the bubbly, kind-hearted Candy. Both women are equally ruthless and Rosa becomes one of them as they carry out their assignments: removing underworld thugs who have escaped from the hands of the law. Dick Wei and Tae Bo both have cameos as men that Rosa comes on to and Rosa even has a 'love affair' with Tae Bo's character, who's an assassin names Leopard. As the movie attempts to progress, Rosa finds herself struggling to hold onto her humanity while trying to do her tasks but keeps complaining that enough is enough and she wants out of the business so she can go back to her lover. The agency keeps making empty promises and you're left hanging as to whether or not Rosa will get her freedom back. (Knowing these agency types, the answer to this question will probably be never.)

I won't lie to you: as a Yukari Oshima fan I kind of went into the movie with high hopes, but was let down viciously. Given that it was a low-budget actioner, I was kinda hopping that they'd make the best of this movie with great fight scenes; there are hardly any in here and the gunfights don't really help too much because the action sequences look more rehearsed than an actual screen shot taking place. Here are some other things that kinda bothered me:

1. The editing is terrible--very choppy and the camera doesn't stick to the scenes that are filmed for far too long.

2. Certain fight scenes and gun battles look like they've been rehearsed, rather than actually showing some true gusto when put into play.

3. Don't bother looking for plot. There is none, and there's little charaterization.

4. A character named David was introduced into the story, but isn't given much background. All we know is that he comes onto Rosa and he's supposed to be an 'undercover'. This guy is dropped like a bad habit out of the story before anything can fully be explored about him.

5. Leopard (a fellow assassin) has a love affair with Rosa, but that story isn't explored either. The story doesn't even explain how they met and fell in love.

6. The dubbing for this film? Aack! Somebody did a terrible job with Candy's voice. Made her seem like an air-head, but she shows her claws when it comes time to 'ride or die' and that's a good thing.

7. No cast list. That's a disappointment 'cause I wanted to know more about the ladies who played Rosa, Lisa and Candy. They had excellent combat capabilities, and I can't understand why they weren't in more girls with guns movies. This film may have killed their chances for more work. As for the cast listing, maybe they knew this film would turn out bad so they asked not to have their names attached to it in anyway--if that's the case, I can't say I blamed them.

8. You're going to have a serious 'WTF' moment when you reach the end. You're just left hanging in the air--no explanation whatsoever.

Well, this movie was chock full of action, but they could've done without some of the wirework, and the editing could've been a little better. Also...the lighting in some fight scenes weren't too good. Probably just the film aging with time, but other than that, the film was good and the fight between Yuen Biao and Yuen Wah was great too! I'm not totally disatisfied with this film, but nonetheless, it was a treat worth watching.

I first saw this movie after watching "Superfights", and it did have moments where it would thrill me, but other times I was a little on the "so-so" side of the movie. It focuses on Jake, a New York cop who's a tad bit of a wreckless loose cannon, but he's a wild fighting machine when it comes time to attack. On his latest assignment, Interpol needs his help to shut down a ring that deals in "snuff films". Apparently the movies do attract a lot of attention from customers, but in order for someone to get the lead part, that person has to die at the hands of the villain.

Turns out the person starring in these snuff films is Kahn (Billy Blanks), a mountain of pure muscle and vicious skill as a kickboxer. When Jake was a kid, Kahn murdered his older brother Sean in front of him after Sean refused to throw a match. Now, the climate is perfect for revenge and Jake intends to make Kahn pay for this offense, but he needs to beef up his skills in order to prepare for his showdown with Kahn. That's where Prang (Keith Cooke) comes in. A native of Bangkok, he now lives as a drunken hermit after his defeat at Kahn's hands years ago. At first, Prang is reluctant to teach Jake how to fight Thai style because his motive is revenge.

But when a young blonde named Molly, who gets conned into being Kahn's slave girl, is involved, Prang and Jake must work extra hard so Jake can prep for his showdown with Kahn.

Again, this movie had decent fight scenes on Loren Avedon's part and Billy Blanks' part, but Keith Cooke got to shine a little bit earlier on and it's a shame that he didn't get to fight more later on in this movie. Acting wise, Loren Avedon and Sherrie Rose need just a little bit more work; but overall, the movie was pretty decent. Try to ignore the plot a little bit and just focus on the fights a little.

1. I saw My Lucky Stars first and I was kind of expecting the same cast from that one. Eric Tsang and the lovely Sibelle Hu are missing from this one so that was a little disappointing.

2. Jackie Chan is given top billing on the Fox rereleased DVD, but the real star of this show is the great Sammo Hung. Jackie has a few good action scenes in the movie and I thought his character would show up to give the Lucky Stars a hand once in a while. But his character does things like beat up suspects to get a confession, cause a twenty car pile-up after skating after robbery suspects and even gets into a sparring match with Yuen Biao (who has a cameo in this movie along with Moon Lee).

But the movie does have comical moments which make up for the lack of martial arts scenes, a Hong Kong style music montage of the Lucky Stars gang cleaning up things and so much more: this movie had 80s written all over it. There's even a scene where Sammo's character Teapot and Cherie Cheung's character Sis order food from a Hong Kong restaraunt called 'Maxims' and Ann Hui plays the cashier...she even gives a kid a toy for trying to memorize what Maxims is famous for. Looks like a good restaraunt and if I ever go to Hong Kong, I'll definitely try it out.

Give Winners and Sinners a try, but be warned: there won't be too much martial arts fighting in this one like in My Lucky Stars, but don't let that discourage you. I watched it and found it entertaining.

The movie focuses on Ho and Sang, two brothers from a dojo in the Mainland town of Guangzhou who are asked by their long-lost Uncle (Lau Kar Leung) to come and help manage his restaraunt over in Hong Kong and to have a little fun in between. Once there, they meet Penny (Moon Lee), their beautiful cousin who just happens to be an expert in tae kwon do. Upon leaving the airport, they have a run-in with some local thugs; and when Penny gets into a fight with them, the thugs get caught by C.I.D. as it turns out they were carrying a bag of heroin on them. Apparently, this doesn't sit well with the gang's crime boss (Eddie Maher), and he wants this problem dealt with by his two lieutenants since the incident caused him to lose face. What follows next are a series of street battles involving a fight at a roller-derby, a Hong Kong nightclub, and a showdown with the villains after Penny's team loses two casualties thanks to Eddie's homeboys.

I rather enjoyed this low-budget actioner, and it was fun to see Moon Lee, Ricky Cheung, and Chin Siu Ho throwdown with the local Triad element on the streets of Hong Kong--and the fight scenes were very top-notch. On the downside, Lau Kar Leung doesn't fight until close to the end, and the English dubbing for this movie [on the US double feature DVD by Brentwood] was so-so. Some of the voice actors sounded a little bored like they were reading their lines while others tried to show a little gusto while talking.

The plot may be a little scrambled and kind of all-over the place, (thanks in part to "The Protector" being added to this film) and the strangest part is how the criminals keep toying with Moon Lee and her crew rather than just trying to kill them half the time--they even tried to set Ricky Cheung's character up by making him deliver fake drugs and then tried to kill him when the buyers weren't able to finish him off.

Overall, the film was good and fun to watch; but like I said, to fully enjoy this film you need to ignore the parts with "The Protector" in them.

Rei (Naoko Iiijima) is a sweeper who works for Zero Sector, the bottom line of justice for the city of Tokyo. Their task is to take out criminals who are deemed untouchable by normal department standards and to do away with corrupt cops who make the system worse than what it is. Rei has no real identity, no family, no friends, no connections and no fingerprints which makes her job relatively easy, but at the same time makes her life miserable. She longs for some attention and human warmth to unlock the coldness in her heart. Such is offered in the form of Inspector Oda, a member of Section One (a legitimate police department) who has no idea what Rei really does for a living, but the less he knows about her, the safer he is.

Another companion of hers is Takako, a reformed juvenile offender that Oda helped straighten out and who loves to hang around with him whenever time allows. But while taking a ride with Takako in her new Nissan Safari, they witness a nude woman running over an innocent young man in the middle of nowhere. It turns out that this woman is named Yumi and she's supposed to be the good Samaritan type who comes from a good-natured family. But as we all know, people with a clean-cut image usually have some skeletons in their closet, and Yumi is no exception to the rule. See she's into the whole S & M thing, and her latest charge wasn't into that, so Yumi ran him over in retaliation for refusing her advances.

As it turns out, Yumi's father is a very important man with connections to everyone, including the police force, and so he has his people take care of the mess and make it look like simply a traffic accident. Oda smells a cover-up and he refuses to back off on the incident, certain that someone from behind the scenes is pulling the strings on this incident. Rei can't get involved in the case (even though she wants to help Oda), but when assassins start gunning for her and then begin threatening the lives of her two friends, she will have to go beyond even Section Zero's authority to get to the bottom of this case.

The interesting thing about this movie is the psychological warfare that Rei goes through on a day to day basis. Her handler, Moto, a ruthless emtionless man who believes she's just an expendable grunt, tells her that she can't get invovled in the whole hit and run affair regardless of what happens. Rei makes it quite clear though that she's not a dog and that she's tired of living her life alone and without contact. Zero Sector erased everything about her: her feelings, her identity, her reasons for living. She refuses to live her life like that any longer and she warns Moto that if he's trying to cover up for someone else during this assignment, then the two of them are gonna have issues. It isn't until things start going 'dead' wrong that Rei reclaims her humanity and fights back against those who are trying to kill her and the people she cares about.

"Zero Woman: Final Mission" was supposed to be the final case for lovely Rei, but if she's not careful during this assignment, this might very well be her last assignment. Check this film out sometime and you won't be disappointed.

Moon Lee and Gam Chi-Gei portray Ellen Lee and Grace Chin, two officers who work for the C.I.D. These two are more than just partners though, they're roommates and best friends who graduated from the academy together; yet they still have a tendency to act like a couple of rookies. But one day, their sexist superior Commander Wong (Melvin Wong) has an assignment for them to do: it seems there has been a rash of murders involving young Chinese hostesses in the area. The girls all had the same thing in common, they were young and beautiful, worked in high-class clubs where there was a lot of money and sleaze, and after a couple of days of work they'd disappear and weren't found until a couple of days later. The M.O. of the killer is terrifying: he binds the women, beats and tortures them, and then rapes and kills them (sometimes, doing the last two parts, vice versa). As Grace sarcastically puts it 'this killer is a real sweetheart'.

So that's where Ellen and Grace come in, their task is to go undercover and find the identity of this loon and bring him in. At first the girls aren't interested in playing bait for a bunch of sleazy rich guys, but then Grace discovers something much more interesting: it seems that the owner of the nightclub is Brother Bill (super kicker Chui Jing Yat) who has gotten on the bad side of some dangerous people after screwing them over on an arms deal by killing the businessmen. Now, he wants to be 'top dog' of the underworld, but he needs to remove any obstacles that may threaten this move and so that's where the lovely Yukari Oshima comes in. She plays a free-lance killer named Yamamoto who uses a blowgun and other hand-made weapons to deal with her targets, but there's a chance our lovely assassin may not really be who she says she is...

That's the plot in a nutshell and here are some of the saving graces for the film:

• Good fights scenes, but at least one at the beginning had a little undercranking.
• The bonding between Ellen and Grace...these two are like sisters and they fight and behave like they were really family.
• There are some comical moments that make up for the lack of action at times.

• The movie had two plots, but didn't know which one to focus on so it was kind of confusing as to what direction the director wanted to take, but he tries hard to stay focused on one scenario at a time.
• Billy Chow is introduced into the story, but he's not given much screen-time. Even when it's time for him to display his skills, they do it too late.
• The fight scenes should've been filmed in the daytime...for some reason at night, there wasn't enough lighting to see what was going on.

I'll admit, "Beauty Investigator" had its moments where I was excited to watch it, but other times it would put me to sleep. But I still enjoyed it because it was a girls-with-guns movie and it had two of my favorite leading ladies in it--they had much potential but weren't really given much to work with. But the good thing is, they tried and made the most of it, and that's sayin something for a low-budget film like this.

Give it a shot if you're a Moon Lee or Yukari Oshima fan.

The plot revolves around Mimi (Melanie Marquez), an ex-model turned thief who is running with a dangerous crowd of smugglers. After stealing an antique relic from a Buddhist temple, Mimi goes on the run after double crossing her employers. Enter Siu Ching (Cynthia Khan), a Hong Kong Interpol agent who has been ordered by her superiors to find the relic and bring it back, but she won't be going on this mission alone: a Beijing Military official named Wong Li has been asked to assist her in finding the relic as well. The task won't be easy as they are constantly pitted against a various assortment of bad guys who will stop at nothing to retrieve the relic from Mimi who has intentions of selling it herself.

The pros: this is a Cynthia Khan movie so she's given plenty of time to shine in the film. The locations for the movie were excellent and they didn't focus too much on the plot, just the action scenes. The gunfights in this film were extraordinary and the fight scenes were so-so.

Now for the cons: Sharon Yeung is dropped in and taken out of the story a few times and that was kind of disappointing to me...but she did get to kick some bad guys around here and there. The fight scenes could've done without the wire-work...it was unnecessary and it made the characters seem a little too superhuman. Ronnie Rickets plays a cab driver named Harry, who we know almost nothing about except that he likes to box in underground matches and he can handle himself really well with a machine gun or assault rifle. I'm guessing his character must've been a soldier or something to have those skills...he's Cynthia Khan's partner in the movie and though they don't get along well at first, but later begin to show a good deal of comradery towards one another. Also, the ending of the movie kind of threw me for a loop, but I won't say what happens...they kinda just threw an ending at me that I wasn't really expecting.

Overall, the movie was pretty good and decent for a Phillip Ko actioner. Clearly the cast in this film make the most of what they had to work with...rent it if you want to have something to watch on a Saturday night or buy it if you're a major Cynthia Khan and Sharon Yeung fan.

This movie was chock-full of things that I love from Hong Kong Cinema: hand-to-hand combat techniques, explosions, gun fights galore, lots of betrayal and some decent Heroic Bloodshed that is known in cinema involving Triads or Yakuza. What I really enjoyed about this film were the women, Maria Jo and Yoko Miyamoto (who for some odd reason dropped of the face of the cinema world and were never seen or heard from again. This was Yoko's only film by the way). They play two professional killers named Eileen and Amy, both who are good at their job and have never failed to complete a contract. But this time, these beauties find themselves in the middle of a gang war that's about to explode wide open and their bosses both assign them a target that neither one will be able to kill: each other! And when Eileen and Amy discover that someone has double-crossed them, they realize that their very survival will depend on each other, as an assortment of bad guys come after them with their guns blazing.

I must say, of the films that I've seen so far with Godfrey Ho, this one was pretty decent and pushed the action meter into the red zone. There wasn't much characterization for some of the characters but you might find yourself rooting for Eileen and Amy a lot to win in this movie. Now if you're thinking this is a basic 'good assassins' versus 'bad guy criminal' storyline, think again. Eileen and Amy are still the villains, but the scenario is two bad girls facing an army of bad guys, but the bad guys ruthlessness warrants the two assassins to be the protagonists of the story. Also thrown into the mix is Betty Lee (portrayed with a little gusto by Sibelle Hu), a C.I.A. agent who's been trying to shut down a counterfeit smuggling ring and when she comes face to face with Eileen, Betty suspects that their may be more to this case than meets the eye. The only downside to Sibelle's character is the 'dubbing' for her. She boasts a whole lot, especially when she identifies herself to some bad guys: 'I'm with the C...I...A!' Verry funny stuff though.

The interesting part of the story is Eileen and Amy's personality. Amy is a killer and she does her job, no problem at all. She even seduces men before she kills, yet has a lover named Kent (Ken Lo), her handle, who she would die for if need be. But when Kent is forced to turn on Amy to save his own skin, she has to reconsider where her loyalties lie. Eileen is a little different though: she seems cold and ruthless, but she has a reason for that because she was a soldier in the Cambodian underground during the Vietnam incident and she had to watch her lover die right in front of her while he attempted to save her comrades. As a result, Eileen has distanced herself from the rest of the world and doesn't get involved with anyone. She does her job to support her little brother's school studies while he's in France. But when little brother comes home, Eileen will see just how much he's changed while he's been away: because he's learned some things that someone his age shouldn't know and doing things that can't be taught in a classroom (I think you all know where I'm going with this).

Another interesting subplot was the character Sylvia (played by Syliva Sanches), a call-girl who saves Eileen and Amy and takes them into her home after they're both wounded and pass out on Sylvia's front lawn. The three women then take the time to get to know each other and even compare how they're jobs are dangerous. Sylvia comments that in order to keep the luxurious house that her grandfather left to her, she has to sell her body and that being a call-girl is all she's good at (I find that hard to believe, because she could just as easily be a nurse, since she was able to patch up Amy and Eileen with no problem). Sylvia comments that she's not a killer like Eileen and Amy, but she sees that her task is dangerous if the men she pulls 'tricks' for have some sort of disease. Strangely enough, Sylvia doesn't seem to mind the risk and like Eileen and Amy, she likes to live dangerously. However, sticking around Sylvia's house may put her in danger and Eileen is worried that it may violate her code about contract killing: never involve innocent people in your affairs. It will attract unnecessary attention and get them put in harm's way.

Overall, this film was very enjoyable and I loved every minute of it. The climax was explosive and the ending was...hmm, so-so. But I recommend giving this film a chance for those who like wild and crazy gunfights, and gorgeous women with killer looks and the skills to use them!

This movie was kinda weak on plot, but the fight scenes make up for that. Also, there's plenty of lovely women in the film who clash with each other or are involved in love scenes with some of the male actors. Needless to say, Cheetah on Fire was indeed entertaining, but there were some flaws that kinda kept it from getting a full five stars:

• bad lighting
• bad editing
• semi-good dubbing
• choppy dialogue.

I liked the characters as well as the plot and the action sequences were top-notched. This movie helped me to get into Cynthia Khan and to learn more about the girls with guns genre. First girls with guns movie I purchased was Kickboxer's Tears and that helped me get into Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima and now, I'm a big fan of them and Michiko Nishiwaki (whom I saw in My Lucky Stars).

Godfather's Daughter was the second part of this movie and I enjoyed the fight scenes as well. Had a tough time watching this one though because while it was in its original Mandarin language, the subtitles were chopped off on the screen because of it's full screen version.

Only buy this disc if you're a true girls with guns fan and can't find the original subtitles anywhere.

The Alexander brothers can't stand each other at all, and their father, a retired C.I.A. agent, just wants the both of them to get along. Will is a karate instructor who can't stand that his family are a bunch of spies and he uses his dojo as a means of escaping that kind of existence. Casey, the eldest brother, is C.I.A. and can't understand why Will can't just vibe with the rest of the family tree and make their father happy. However, tragedy strikes the Alexander family when Franco (Rion Hunter), a ruthless terrorist, seeks payback for the murder of his son years ago during an attack on his homeland at Johnathan Alexander's hands.

When the brothers find their beloved father murdered, they continue to blame each other for the incident and go their sepearte ways in an attempt to find those responsible. However, they fail to remember the classic rule in action movies that "two heads are better than one" and it isn't until things get really hectic that they decide to see past their differences and stop Franco from assassinating the President of the United States.

Keith Vitali is a very impressive kicker and in this film it really shows. The man even injured his arm during a rehearsal (as shown through the arm cast he wears) but still continued on no matter what. Siu Hung even had him make use of that as a prop for the fight scenes.

Loren Avedon got to shine pretty well himself, though acting wise he still needs a little work. Nonetheless, he shows that he can still lay a smackdown on anyone and he seems to have vibed a little better in this film after working with Siu Hung in "King of the Kickboxers".

Rion Hunter was truly impressive as Franco, and to this day I still wonder what styles of kung fu this man studied to prepare for his fight scene with Vitali and Avedon. With this man's abilities, he should work with Siu Hung some more.

The best part of this movie is the final fight scene in an airplane garage between Franco, one of his cronies, and the Alexander brothers; and rest assured, everyone gets down and dirty in that fight. No one holds back and anything goes during the battle--lots of bruises, bumps and bleeding in that fight. The best part is how Siu Hung dubbed their voices to make them sound like Chinese warriors during the fight. I've always thought that was cool how Siu Hung did that. Though there is a certain amount of people being doubled in the fight (either by Siu Hung himself or members of his stunt team), the sequence really hits the spot!

"Blood Brothers" was an exciting tale of vengeance and family that Seasonal Films created. This is one film that I would definitely add to my collection.

The story takes place in London where there's a struggle for power between the Yakuza and Triad crime syndicates, but when the top Yakuza boss is executed by the opposition, his only adoptive son, Jeffrey (Simon Yam), goes on a mission of vengeance to find those responsible for this offense. At first, fingers are being pointed to three Triad crime lords who could have been responsible, and Jeff takes them down with cool, calm and lethal efficiency. Unfortunately, on one of his hits, an exchange student named Paula (Joey Wang) sees him in action and now everyone, including Jeffrey, begins to see her as a liability. But Jeffrey sees something different about her and chooses not to eliminate Paula. This sets into motion a series of events that will unveil a conspiracy within the crime families which put Jeffrey, Paula, and people they know and care about in harm's way. The only way they can survive is to unveil the mystery behind Jeffrey's father's death and right this definite wrong.

Simon Yam gave an unforgettable performance in this movie as Jeffrey, the silent and stoic son who wants payback for his father's untimely demise. The man doesn't speak much and he lets his actions do the talking for him, and boy, does he let the fur fly in this film. No one is safe from his wrath in this film and he wields guns, samurai swords and uses his own fists to deliver bone-shattering justice. But over time, Yam's character finds someone who can maybe take away this desire for vengeance in the form of Joey Wang's character Paula.

Joey Wang was lovely and innocent as the exchange student Paula, who falls for Jeffrey even though he was originally tasked with killing her. The interesting part is that when he comes for her, Joey doesn't start crying or sniveling or begging for her life...she's strangely calm and talks to Simon's character like he's a human being and not a machine. She's not quick to judge and she looks at both sides of the story before she goes any further with her decisions in life, knowing that no one can stop her from doing what she wants to do.

The best part of "Killer's Romance" is that it's a story of heroic bloodshed, where courage alone will determine who lives and who dies. There's lots of betrayal and people switching sides, so it's tough to know who's helping whom sometimes, but the only thing that "we the audience" know is that if someone gets gunned down quick or makes a confession while dying, they are either good or bad.

"Killer's Romance" was an excellent film from the Heroic Bloodshed genre. I recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Simon Yam or Joey Wang. Buy this gem and you won't be disappointed.

Naked Killer is a film that focuses on two pairs of free-lance killers who unleash their hostilities on each other in modern day Hong Kong. Tinam (Simon Yam), a cop with a fear of guns (after he accidentally shot his brother) finds himself caught in the middle of the assassins' personal feud when he recognizes Kitty (Chingmy Yau), one of the killers with whom he had a love affair with earlier. This film focuses on Kitty and Tinam's love for each other as well as their need to try and cope with the other's lifestyle, but it won't be so easy when some Yakuza big shots put a contract on Kitty's head and the head of her teacher, Sister Cindy (Kelly Yao), the woman who took her under her wing and taught her everything she knows. Things really spice up when Princess (played to perfection by Carrie Ng), a vampish lesbian and Baby (adorable Madoka Sugawara), her partner and personal play-toy get caught in the mix. Princess used to be a protege of Cindy's and when she announces to Cindy in her own home none the less, that she and Baby are taking up the contract that was assigned to them, they will become each other's sworn enemies. However, Princess has set her lustful sights on Kitty and can't decide whether to kill her or make love to her, but Kitty makes it quite clear that she doesn't swing that way. When Cindy's life is threatened by the two psychotic killers, Kitty and Tinam may have to risk their very lives as well as their love and happiness for each other to save her teacher and stay one step ahead of the bad guys as they find themselves playing a game of 'step on or get stepped on'.

Many movies like Body Weapon and Naked Weapon have tried to carry the torch of this fine film, but haven't had much success. I think what made this movie such a cult favorite is because they chose an all-star cast to play the parts of the characters. Chingmy Yau, Carrie Ng, Kelly Yao and Madoka Sugawara all disappeared off the face of the earth sometime in the late nineties or early 2000 and it's a shame they're not doing any more films today. Simon Yam is still going on strong playing cops and an assortment of bad guys to this day though.

Chingmy Yau lights up the screen in her playful portrayal of Kitty and the name suits her character very well. Kitty is a ruthless woman when she has to be but can be sweet and playful when someone treats her right. Kelly Yao plays Cindy, the middle-aged hit woman with a seductive body and killer skills to match. She shows her pupil that the arts of seduction is necessary in the killing business. Carrie Ng has quite a cult following for her portrayal of Princess, the lesbian hit woman who enjoys killing so much, that it makes her hormones rage out of control. At one point in this film, she makes out with Baby in a swimming pool of blood after they kill their target. Later on, Princess tries to worm her way into Kitty's heart in an attempt to get her to join her side and to leave Cindy behind. This makes Madoka Sugawara's character very jealous, as Baby gets very cold and icy when she sees Kitty around Princess.

I don't wanna' give too much away, but you gotta' see this film! It was action-packed and chop full of bullet ballet, H.K. Kickboxing, acrobatics and plenty of Hong Kong fashion, club music and erotic scenes of bliss. Check it out and you won't be disappointed.

But Madam Yeung won't be going on this assignment alone because she's aided by Japanese detective Hiroshi Fujioka, who's got his own personal score to settle with Ong and Nishiwaki. The fight scenes in this movie are terrific and the gun play is out of this world. There's a bit of side humor throw in with Sandra Ng and a few other oddball characters and that helps to lighten the tone of this semi-dark movie.

I look forward to seeing more of Cynthia Khan's movies in the future and rest assured, whoever buys this flick will be in for a real treat!

The one thing that had me on the edge of my seat and rooting for these beauties to win, was the torture that two of them had to go through. Carrie Ng's character gets violated by her former triad lover (Kenneth Tsang in his most villainous performance) in an attempt to free her gambling addicted husband (also an officer) from a gambling debt. And when her husband is killed and Sharon is framed for the murder, Kara must do everything in her power to find Sharon and clear her name. Sharon's character Ida is even doped up on heroin at the hands of evil Michiko Nishiwaki, who proves that she can be dangerous with just a menacing stare.

The things that these women are put through is heartbreaking and painful to watch, but none the less, you have to bear with it as they eventually try to find a way to turn the tables on their captors. Buy this movie today and I guarantee, you won't be disappointed!

Seems like a pretty simple mission except during this escapade in which conman Fu Jun (Chow Yun Fat) village girl Guiha (Cherie Chung), who is and the shady Miss Li, a woman that the team rescues from bandits earlier in the film accompanies them, they encounter a host of problems:

1. They have seven days to reach their destination.
2. They are prohibited from opening or tampering with the cases in anyway (so you know they're carrying something bad).
3. The horde of bandits and revolutionaries who are determined to get in their way and keep them from delivering the cargo.
4. A pair of ruthless assassins who are after Fu Jun, after a price is put on his head.

This movie definitely has lots of character development and the fact that it was filmed in Korea makes it all the more interesting. Treading through open land with snow and ice all around, I was almost expecting the group to have a snowball fight! It's a shame that we don't get to learn more about Cherie Chung's character in this movie; I mean she's just labeled as a village girl who's going to buy back her sister who's been sold into slavery...though we never see her or who's clutches she has wound up in. Fu Jun is definitely a man of mystery, a con artist who has recurring nightmares about a past incident he was involved in. Again, they have a good plot device there for more character development, but it isn't used. Chow Yun's character is cocky and arrogant and believes that he's almost invincible to anything, but he's a team player and he manages to get along with explosives expert Bu. Earlier in the film, these two didn't exactly see eye to eye, but when their lives are on the line, they choose to work together, knowing their survival depends on it.

The ending to this great film is almost abrupt and it leaves certain questions hanging in the air, but overall, it is an entertaining drama. Watch it dubbed or subtitled and I guarantee, you'll enjoy it.