Some female cops are after a gang of violent diamond smugglers. There are a few other subplots such as the introduction of a rival gang, the suing of one of the female cops for destruction of property, and a weird haunted house subplot that I didn't understand. Basically it's more Godfrey Ho, girls with guns nonsense.

Like Ho's better work this features moments of hilarity, bizarreness, and a few moments of genuinely fun choreography. The movie features plenty of amateur fights, bullet-fu shoot outs, torture conducted by male American porn stars, a kung-fu construction crew, mild elder abuse, and hilarious dubbing. While the action does slow down, it is typically replace with something weird or bizarre enough to entertain. The finale is sadly a little lacking compared to many of Ho's other top notch work. Overall I'd recommend this to anyone who likes the trashy entries in the girls with guns micro-genre or if you are a Godfrey Ho fan.

Recently seeing Ringo Lam's City on Fire (1987-also reviewed) for the first time,I've been in the mood to see another Action flick from Hong Kong. Digging into a box of DVDs, I found a unwatched HK movie that I picked up years ago! This led to me following the enforcers.

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Despite the see-through white English subtitles making a few bits difficult to pick up, the screenplay by Hank Lai and Yale Leung keeps the Girls With Guns antics loaded, from the cackling robbers building transatlantic links with Vancouver, (a popular destination of those who left Hong Kong in the run-up to the Handover) to cop Yip-Ching coming up with unique ways to take each gang member down. Leaning onto Bollywood in the melodrama background of the main cop, the writers take inspiration from the Heroic Bloodshed of the era, with a terrific, fatalist heroism ending.

Diving into the gang, Pan Pan Yeung (who impressively jumps on top of a car) gives a lively performance as Yip-Ching, thanks to Yeung dishing out the smoothly performed fighting moves with a gleeful relish, welded to downcast emotions when Yip-Ching opens up about her family life. Although the action scenes are far too short, director Godfrey Ho & cinematographer Raymond Chang make them sparkle from the stylish kitsch off the multi-coloured biker outfits worn in the opening, melting into slick smash cuts on Yip-Ching's high-kicks,to the slow-motion squib galore exchanges between the robbers and the enforcing angels.

Trying to protect a policewoman (Sharon Yeung), an undercover cop shoots a criminal, exposes his identity, and is promptly marked for death by the organization he was working for. The hit-man (Philip Ko) completes the job, but during his escape he is shot dead by another policewoman from Sharon's squad. His partner and friend (Dick Wei) is not too pleased about that, and swears vengeance.

As it often happens in these low-budget Hong Kong action films, the story drags this one down, but the action scenes are worth your while. Sharon Yeung, one of the most underrated female action stars from Hong Kong, gets a rare leading role and is in good physical form. However, her final showdown against the almost indestructible Dick Wei is not as satisfying as it could have been. Oh, and if by any chance you can't get enough of the classic music theme from John Carpenter's "Halloween", don't worry - you can listen to it again here! (**1/2)