I saw a 90 minute version of the film. Apparently there is a 110 minute version.(it was also really badly subtitled) The plot of the film has a Thai gangster's moll falling in love with a visiting yakuza soldier. The soldier is forced to leave and the woman, pregnant, begins to live a life alone. She give birth to a daughter who is autistic but with great physical skills. the young girl learns martial arts from watching movies. When her mom becomes sick with cancer the young girl and a friend find a list of debts, long uncollected, that the mother held when she was still in the mob.Daughter and friend begin to collect the debts and move toward a nasty confrontation with her mother's former boss.
The film as a whole isn't that good. The dramatic scenes are often quite bad. They are soapy and silly in ways I don't think they intended. But you're not going to watch a movie about a girl who learned martial arts from movies for the the action sequences. There are four or five action sequences in this film and they are, with one exception really good. Lets face it the girl that is starring in this film really can kick ass. One fight is in an ice plant and its really neat as people and blocks of ice slide about. The other fights are equally fun and most of the reason to see the film. The real reason to see the is the final fight which is the exception to the "really good" rule of fights in this film. The final fight, a fight which lasts about 25 minutes of screen time beginning as a gun fight, moves to a fist fight and the escalates from there, is one of the best action sequences of the year- possibly more. Its a "holy s#$t! where can this go next" fight. Its amazing. To be certain camera tricks and wires were used, but at the same time its an amazing piece of work (and one that caused people to go to the hospital as the video during the end credits shows).I don't know how to describe the fight without giving away too much, and I don't want to do that since you really do want to see this fight. Echoes of the end of Kill Bill (minus the missing limbs) and then some... then it goes beyond it.
Action movie lovers you will want to see this.
Ten out of ten for the fights. five out of ten for the film as a whole.
The film as a whole isn't that good. The dramatic scenes are often quite bad. They are soapy and silly in ways I don't think they intended. But you're not going to watch a movie about a girl who learned martial arts from movies for the the action sequences. There are four or five action sequences in this film and they are, with one exception really good. Lets face it the girl that is starring in this film really can kick ass. One fight is in an ice plant and its really neat as people and blocks of ice slide about. The other fights are equally fun and most of the reason to see the film. The real reason to see the is the final fight which is the exception to the "really good" rule of fights in this film. The final fight, a fight which lasts about 25 minutes of screen time beginning as a gun fight, moves to a fist fight and the escalates from there, is one of the best action sequences of the year- possibly more. Its a "holy s#$t! where can this go next" fight. Its amazing. To be certain camera tricks and wires were used, but at the same time its an amazing piece of work (and one that caused people to go to the hospital as the video during the end credits shows).I don't know how to describe the fight without giving away too much, and I don't want to do that since you really do want to see this fight. Echoes of the end of Kill Bill (minus the missing limbs) and then some... then it goes beyond it.
Action movie lovers you will want to see this.
Ten out of ten for the fights. five out of ten for the film as a whole.