white_fang-84633 One of my favorite fight scene is when Joyce kicks Agnes between the legs and she falls down in agony and pain. After she recovers she tries to kick Joyce but Joyce quickly reacts and jumps up and knees Agnes in the crotch again and kicks her in her boobs ending the fight.

didiermustntdie the film is about royal hong kong police fighting against Vietnamese gorilla(actually thugs and terrorists)a typical silly hong kong action film. the action looks well done..but the story is stupid, inconsistent,contrived just like any other typically bad Asian film.. the acting is hammy ,full of overacting. bad even by hong kong standardthe best of the film is Joyce Godenzi. probably the main interest of viewers is to see her perform many stunt work herself. that overhead kick is marvelous.Joyce Godenzi, although not a good actress seems to be quite "versatile" ..I've seen her play both innocent young girl and sophisticated lady, now it's the action heroine.almost every hongkongese film I've seen is action+comedy+sad story, but this film lacks the fun elements. so,that only makes it less enjoyable. you know comedic situation is a must in hong Kong cinema.just like dance is in Indian cinema.

phillip-58 First let's get the point of this film out of the way. Sammo Hung was dating Joyce Godenzi (they married in 1995) and this film was designed one of several he was involved in to make her a star. Though not a bad actress (though she came to attention as a Beauty Queen) she was no fighter and despite Sammo's efforts to teach her the moves, it shows at times like the famous final fight with the Phillipine fighter Agnes Aurelio (who only made a few films). Sammo appears at various times throughout the film but only fights for a few seconds towards the end, presumably not to distract from his 'star'. Carina Lau is good as the sister who first hates Min (Joyce) but later fights with her to revenge the death of her brother (Min's husband - Tony Leung who has little to do except die well). The other sisters do little but special mention should be made of the feisty Matriarch (played by veteran Helena Law) who adds some character. I found the birthday party where she learns of the death of her son moving, though heavy handed for Western tastes at least. Yuen Wah is genuinely scary as the villain but the film would have been so much better id he had faced Sammo at the end and not just been killed rather pointlessly. You'll spot many other minor HK characters in this film. I enjoyed it, but I suspect it would have had a much higher score with Michelle Yeoh in the lead who could really fight. The now defunct Hong Kong Legends disc has a lot of extras.

Brian Camp SHE SHOOTS STRAIGHT (1990) was directed by Corey Yuen and produced by Sammo Hung and turns out to be a fascinating and entertaining movie along the lines of the IN THE LINE OF DUTY series from the 1980s (one of which was also directed by Yuen), with its hyper policewomen-in-action scenes. The difference is the greater attention paid here to family drama.The only son (Tony Leung Ka Fai) in a family of police officers marries Mina, an ambitious `half-breed' colleague (played by Joyce Godenzi), incurring the resentment of his four sisters, all policewomen, especially the eldest, Ling (Carina Lau). There is pressure on Tony to father a son, to keep the male line going, although Mina wants to delay pregnancy until she gets promoted to Superintendent. The family dynamics make the non-action scenes more interesting than usual for this type of film and add an emotional layer missing from the more action-oriented entries in this genre. The crime-fighting plot centers around a Vietnamese criminal gang (led by the always formidable Yuen Wah) which robs a nightclub where the five policewomen are working undercover as hostesses, initiating the film's most spectacular action setpiece. The rest of the film details the various conflicts with the gang culminating in a big shipboard/shipyard battle and one-on-one hitting/kicking fight between Mina and a muscular female gang member (Agnes Aurelio). When they get their undercover assignment at the nightclub, one of the sisters, Ling, gets up at a department meeting and wonders just how far the girls are expected to go with the customers, a question I don't recall being asked in such American counterparts as the old `Police Woman' TV series or the `T.J. Hooker' episodes where Stacy went undercover as a hooker, stripper, club dancer, or anything else they dreamed up to put Heather Locklear in a bikini or miniskirt. (Not that anyone wanted Stacy to ask that question, which would have defeated the whole purpose.)The film has far less kung fu than the LINE OF DUTY films, with its action scenes more steeped in the stunt leap/breaking glass/gunplay mode. One of several clever action sequences involves a series of Vietcong-style jungle traps laid in a public park for Mina, Tony and Ling. Lead actress Joyce Godenzi is, however, not the fighter that Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock and Cynthia Khan were in the LINE OF DUTY films, although Joyce is a far better actress than the two Cynthias and is quite watchable throughout. I've previously seen her only in the great EASTERN CONDORS and the mediocre THE RAID. In fact, all the women in SHE SHOOTS STRAIGHT are good actresses, most notably Carina Lau and Sandra Ng, and a couple I don't recognize. The women here are all a bit harder, beefier, and tougher than the usual Hong Kong starlet type. They run the show in this film and even Sammo Hung takes a supporting role, staying out of the fighting for the most part. The final action scenes here are something of a disappointment, because only two of the main women participate. But overall, I highly recommend this disc.