DVD : Naked Weapon (Chiklo Dakgung)
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0829567009024
Format: Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Arts Alliance Amer
Manufacturer: Arts Alliance Amer
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Arts Alliance Amer
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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This is a Great Movie for your Oriental Collection. If you like Spy + Kun-fu and hot girls this is your movie!!!!
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NAKED WEAPON is another foray into the "girls who kick butt" genre. Maggie Q has been getting a lot of attention in the U.S. for MI-3, Live Free and Die Hard and Balls of Fury; I have quite a collection of her Hong Kong films and this is the film that helped break her into the action genre. Tony Ching Siu Tung directs and choreographs the fight sequences; the film is an entertaining mix of martial arts action with cool set designs. "Naked Weapon" is unrelated to Wong Jing's "Naked Killer". Wong Jing started the film but turned it over to Tony Ching in mid-production; the result is not the expected "exploitation flick" but pure action "junk".
Synopsis partially derived from the back cover:
Like a contagious virus, pretty and athletic girls in their teens are disappearing from all over the world. The mastermind behind the abductions if Madame M (Almen Wong), who plans to train the girls into cold merciless killers. After several years of intense training, only Charlene (Maggie Q), Cat (Anya Wu) and Jill (Jewel Lee) survive and become the world's best professional assassins. On a recent mission to assassinate some one in Hong Kong, Charlene crosses paths with her long-lost mother and as a result she comes face to face with a young C.I.A. agent (Daniel Wu), who vows to aid her in cutting her ties with Madame M.
However, the past threatens to catch up with Charlene and Cat....
It's quite hard to judge "Naked Weapon"; despite the usual wooden ... Read More
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Almen Wong plays a woman who runs a camp that kidnaps 12 and 13 year old girls and trains them to be assassins. They start out with about 30 girls and only one of them will survive. After the girls are trained for 6 years they are forced to kill eachother in different competitions. In the second of these competitions it is decided to let 3 of the girls live instead of 1. 2 of the the girls (Maggie Q and Anya) are very close to eachother and the other one (Jewel Lee) is a cold blooded killing machine. When the girls take up their positions as assassins, the movie all of a sudden becomes extremely boring and mindless. The cop that is following the assassins is one of the most incompetent lead actors I have ever seen. Nothing he does is believable and while he looks to be about 23 years old, he acts 14. Then you would think it would be exciting when the girls go on their missions, but there is no thought put into it. Some bad guy is inserted at the end of the movie and him and one of the girl assassins fight to the death. It is completely ridiculous! The movie is produced by Wong Jing so I did expect it to be stupid, but the budget and style are much higher caliber than most Wong Jing movies. And it lives up to its title by having plenty of good looking women in tank tops and short shorts and some brief nudity. Anya and Maggie Q alone make this worth watching.
The fights are what you would expect from Ching Siu Tung. There is tons of wirework involved ... Read More
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Naked Weapon is one of those films that isn't very original, but still has a nice, may it be pretty weak, story and is very entertaining. It is a film with which actionfans won't be dissapointed and fans of sexy girls in action will absolutely love. There is enough gunfighting and martial arts in there to keep you satisfied.
The story follows Charlene (Maggie Q, before she got famous with "Mission Impossible III" and this years "Live Free or Die Hard"), one of the many girls who got kipnapped at young age by Madam M (Almen Wong Pui-Ha), who takes them to a secret island and trains them to become the number one hitkillers in the world. The training is very hard and most of all brutal and not everyone will survive. When Charlene gets back in the real world, everything gets out of hand. When she sees her mother and gets in touch with the good cop Jack Chen (Daniel Wu) her life gets turned upside down and choices have to be made.
Yes, an interesting story even though it isn't that original. The movie only is 88 minutes and you feel that the story could have been worked out better. But still, it doesn't really matter. You must take this film for what it is: an entertaining actionpacked sexy-women-in-action film. And when you do that, this film will give you a very nice 88 minutes.
Maggie Q plays the mainlead and does an ok job. Her acting isn't fantastic, but with that beautiful voice and that look in her eyes, you'll believe everything she says ... Read More
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My Tittle says it all, If you like these 3 things than this is the dvd for you. DVD shows: Gruesome violence & Sexy women. Also shows a mix of realistic & Charlies angel type Kung-Fu fights. Does rip off La Femme Nikita a little but in that movie the trainees were not all female & did not have to kill each other to stay alive
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