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Sibelle in charged with the duty of organizing Hong Kong's first all-women police action squad. Her regimen of training is, at first at least, too harsh for the girls who were used to dates and dances. But Sibelle wins their respect and obedience just the same. Fang, leader of the men's squad, falls for Sibelle. Now comes the first real assignment. In no time Sibelle and Fang are bound and gagged by diamond robbers but Sibelle manages to save the day... | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| In The Inspector Wears Skirts, Sibelle Hu plays Wu, a cop who gets the attention of her superiors after she foils a plot by some ninjas to assassinate a visiting dignitary. Wu is placed in charge of training a group of female cadets, who the top brass will become a tough commando team. Of course, no one on the new team gets along at first, but they soon bond together and manage to foil a plot to steal a set of expensive jewels from a fashion show.
With Jackie Chan as a producer (and his stunt team handling the action) and a fairly star-packed cast, you would think the end results would be pretty good. Well, you would be wrong in this instance. Like many Hong Kong action films of the period, there's just way too much time devoted to stupid comedic sequences. The Inspector Wears Skirts digs itself further into a hole by having an extremely annoying and unnecessary musical number that almost caused me to hit the eject button just to stop the misery. To its' credit, things do pick up near the end when Cynthia Rothrock shows up as an Interpol agent who helps the ladies stop the jewel heist, but by then, it's too little, too late. The Inspector Wears Skirts isn't a horrible movie, but there are many, many other "girls with guns" films that are more deserving of your time. |
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| A fun little comedy adventure romp, featuring a bevy of beautiful female commandos dishing it out in a handful of spectacular set pieces. Unfortunately, like Sammo Hung's "Lucky Stars" series, the awesome action scenes are strung together with long and tiresome comedy elements. A shockingly sexy Sibelle Hu is a hard-ass training officer in charge of a group of female commando trainees which have a knack for pranks and getting into trouble (think "Stripes" or "Police Academy" here). These girls consist of Sandra Ng, femme fighter Wei Ying Hung, pro ice skater turned action actress Anne Bridgewater, Regina Kent, and a dozen other cuties. After a brief appearance in the opening action piece, Interpol agent Cynthia Rothrock shows up an hour into the film to complete the girls' training. Throughout the training, the girls are constantly teasing each other, pulling pranks, and trying to sneak away with the boys from the rival Tiger Squad. The real action comes in the last twenty minutes when both teams are assigned to catch some jewel thieves headed up by Jeffrey Falcon and everything goes to hell. The action scenes are incredibly filmed, staged, and performed, and all of the girls put up a great fight. The always enjoyable Jeffrey Falcon pulls off some wonderful stuff with Cynthia Rothrock and Wei Ying Hung that left my jaw dropped. It's just too bad that it slips into such goofiness for the majority of the film. |
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