The Iron Angels get involved with a Thai terrorist organisation who seek to assassinate four government officials. One of them, Moon, goes undercover and Alex, Kwai and Kharina with the help of Mr. Computer track her until they lose her. More complications ensue then until the final reckoning. This is the third entry in the Iron Angels series and unfortunately Moon has to alternate screen time with the annoying Alex and Kwai not to mention the nerdy Mr Computer so it is not as exciting as the two earlier films in the series. There is some goofy humour that isn't really funny.Moon is of course played by Moon Lee and she is excellent as usual when she on the screen (raising my rating to six out of ten) but they even left her out of the long final battle. I was looking forward to her facing off at the conclusion against the assassin's leader played by the impressive Katy Hickman but that didn't happen. The other members of the cast were adequate.It was disappointing to see the eclipse of Moon.
... View MoreThis is a somewhat thrilling final sequel to Hong Kong's "Iron Angel/Fighting Madam" series. It features Alex Fong and Moon Lee once more as the Iron Angels, martial arts-trained agents, this time tasked to take on a terrorist organization in Thailand.There's some fun stuff here with action galore mixed in with humor and suspense. My favorite action scene is where Moon Lee takes on a band of the terrorist soldiers, while also showing off her impressive nunchuks skills. There's also a boxing match between Alex Fong and a ruthless, angry Thai boxer - also pretty riveting and intense. Have to say, though, that the ***spoiler ahead*** finale was overkill and those Thai government officials the Angels were supposed to protect were rather clueless and ignorant to say the least. And, for some reason, Moon Lee and another fellow Iron Angel, Kharina, were absent. ***spoiler ends***The plot is simple, action is intense, but again, overkill.Grade B-
... View MoreIf this movie just contained action scenes featuring the amazing Moon Lee, I would have been rated it higher. Early in the film, Moon infiltrates an organisation of terrorist assassins, taking the place of one of their number after a fight on a train and follows this with a couple energetic brawls against armies of men. Inexplicably the directors opted to hand large sections of the movie over to male leads (despite the title) and Moon more or less disappears from the film. The army of bad guys who a sensible director would have had annihilated by the feet and fists of Moon instead meet their doom at the hands of a pair of guys in ridiculous machine gun equipped jet packs. The other plus of this movie is the main villain, played by American Katy Hickman in her only Hong Kong role (she is not Saskia Van Rijswijk as some have claimed). Surely the climatic fight should have been between her and Moon, but I'm sure there must be a story behind Moon Lee's limited screen time on this feature.
... View MoreThe Iron Angels (Alex Fong, Moon Lee, Kharina Sa, Fong's new male partner, and another guy called "The Computer" - no sign of Elaine Lui this time) go to Thailand to stop some terrorists. That's pretty much all the plot you need for this one. For pure fighting fans, this is probably the best film in the series. Moon Lee has more fight scenes than in the previous films and looks pretty lethal: one of her best moves is when she jumps on a guy, wraps her legs around his waist, flips backwards, lands on top of him and punches him straight on his face! And Fong has an extended Muay Thai ring match against a local fighter. But shootout fans won't be disappointed, either; a gunfight near the end has an INCREDIBLE body count that easily rivals that of most war movies. The girls-with-guns factor is brought down a little by the absence of Elaine Lui, and the fact that Kharina Sa is given nothing to do, but goes up again with the addition of several female baddies, the leader of whom is a pretty muscular blonde. There are also notable Bond references: we get the female version of the Bond vs. Red Grant train fight in "From Russia With Love" as Moon Lee takes on a Japanese killer lady (who even has shoe-knives!), the blonde villainess pets (not a cat but) a baby croc, and at the end the heroes attack the terrorists on jetpacks like the one Connery used in "Thunderball" - only these are equipped with inexhaustible machine guns! (**1/2)
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