Cynthia Khan is back as a female super-cop and gets to pit her wits (or should it be fists) against some evil cheesy villains including fan-favourite Billy Chow and femme fatale Kim Maree Penn. The plot is all over the place and covers all areas mentioned in my opening paragraph, but as ever, it is only there to give people a reason to fight. To this end, the film does not disappoint. Although it was released in 1990 this is as average an 80's style HK brawler as ever, which means the action must be worth watching. The pace is fast, and the choreography is tight although ultimately, nothing stands out.

Without a Donnie Yen or one of the Yuen Clan to choreograph, there are dozens of these types of films I would recommend first (e.g ITLOD 3&4 and Tiger Cage 1,2 or 3) but this is still a welcome addition to any fan of the genre desperate to find those last few quality cop-sockies! And believe me, these are getting much harder to find!

The first four films in the series are all bona fide Girls with Guns classics. Michelle Yeoh starred in the first two and then Cynthia Khan (her name being derived from Cynthia Rothrock and the then Michelle Khan) starred in the following two. I always get the impression though that D&B the producers never really had the confidence in Cynthia that they did with Michelle and so introduce many other characters and other action stars (Donnie Yen, Michiko Nishiwaki) to often shift the focus away from her. This trend goes even further in this film and too much of the running time is taken with characters other than Inspector Yang. In this instance though the other actors/characters don t match up in skills or charisma to those in the earlier films. There is also a lower budget feel to this film and less intensity than in the previous ones but even taking that into account this film still manages to be quite entertaining and have more action than a Sunday full of NFL football. Some of it is well done, some of it is fairly banal but this film has about as close to non-stop action as a film can have.

From the opening scene when Cynthia delivers an awesome kick to the windshield of a moving car and then hangs on to a moving truck, this film is on the go. It revolves around a mysterious group headed by the General that is stealing secrets from the USA. The CIA is after them (lots of fighting Gweilos in this film) and accuses Cynthia s cousin David Ng of being involved. He is soon on the run with various bad guys, the cops and the CIA after him. He turns to Cynthia for help. She is not very pleased with everyone messing around with her relative and is forced to go outside the police force to help him track down the real perpetrators all the way to Korea.

The film has a few highlights among all the action the opening scene, Cynthia matching up against Billy Chow a couple of times and the final brutal head through glass/sword fight with a blonde female (who I don t know). Though from time to time it is apparent that Cynthia is using a stunt person it is also clear that she is doing much of this on her own and she looks very good doing it.