Naked Weapon (Chiklo Dakgung)

Rating:
Summary: They're more than just naked!
Review: Actually, this was a better movie than I thought it would be.
If you love beautiful and deadly women, mixed with some martial arts and weaponry...then this one's for you!
It at least kept my interest...on a few levels.

Rating:
Summary: Half-Baked Actions by Half-Naked Ladies. OK At Best
Review: Director Siu-Tung Ching is probably better known as action choreographer (of 'Hero' and 'House of Flying Daggeres') than film director on his own ('Chinese Ghost Stories' series). He is good at handling martial arts fighting, especially when the fighters are ladies, and I imagine he thought of 'Naked Weapon' as a good chance to show his skills -- no matter what it costs.

DON'T look for any coherent story here. The film starts with a premise which looks like a rip-off of Japanese film 'Battle Royale.' Little girls are collected from all over the world, and trained to be invincible warriors, or assassins, under the guidance of ruthless leader 'Madame M.' Only the fittest can survive, including Charlene (Maggie Q) and Katt (Anya) after the various 'tests' which I am afraid are too unbelievable or downright nasty. Some may call it 'male fantasy.' Whatever it is, that's director's vision, which he seems to savor.

The latter half changes its tone, looking more like a rip-off of 'Chalies's Angels' without silly humor. A CIA agent Daniel Wu (seen in Jackie Chan's 'Around the World in 80 Days') is involved as Charlene's love interest, and things get more violent when Charlene's mother (Cheng Pei Pei, seen in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' as Jade Fox) and Japanese mafia (or yakuza, if you like) enter the story. You see, the plot is so inconsistent.

Let's see the actions of the film, which are not bad, but still OK at best. Compared with other Hong-Kong action flicks like 'So Close,' they look very inferior with too much use of stunts, or fast-forwards or slow-motions, which are clearly trying to hide the fact that the ladies can pose, but not fight. If I am not mistaken, the girls in 'So Close' are seen really kicking and punching.

Instead, you see lots of images of leading ladies in T-shirts or very scanty clothes. Perhaps boys would enjoy it (and yes, I did, I confess), but contrary to its title, the 'naked' scenes (I mean, nudity) is very brief, so guys, don't expect too much from the film, which is at best 'Half-Naked Weapons.'

If you like to see a Hong-kong actioner featuring the good-looking ladies doing martial arts, see 'So Close.' If you have seen that, and have some extra time and money, you may try this one ... just don't trust the title, though.

Rating:
Summary: whoa, what a horrible, horrible movie, 1star minus 100!!!!
Review: guys, just don't pick up this horrible movie and waste your money like i did. jesus, how could this shallow, elementary school levelled brain-dead movie ever realized into production is simply beyond my comprehension. i just don't want to waste one more minute to write about it, since i've already lost some money and precious time to rent it, then stupidly let the dvd player to play it. tell you what, for some bad movies, i sometimes at least still used fast forward to finish them quickly, but to this stupid movie, i didn't even bother to fast forward it, i simply quit after 5 minutes. if you could finish it, then, senor, i salute you. maybe you got a longer life span than mine, you could waste it, but i can't.

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Summary: Hilarious!!
Review: I don't know if this movie was intended to be funny but it was. The lines are so corny and the acting was truly weak

SPOILERS- (if u can consider them that, becuz the movie is very predictable)

What was up with the cop trying to hit on Maggie Q while her mom was dying?! He had time to pull out his business card and everything! and why was he walking when he had a car?!

and Jewel Lee???!!! how did she die from some glass??? I thought she was the crazy one that could take pain?!

If you thought So Close was fake .. don't watch this one. it'll have u rolling!!

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Summary: A sexy action movie.
Review: I saw this movie and I was surprised how good the action scenes were. There is only english speaking in this Hong Kong movie, and there's no cantonese. I thought the storyline was kinda interesting. It's about a woman who was kidnapped when she was a kid and trained to be a professional killer along with other girls. Then things changed for her during a mission in HK, when she was seen by her mother and caught by a CIA agent who recognize her when they were kids. After that, there's some twist and turns in the storyline. What I liked most about this movie was the action scenes. There's a lot of cool martial arts fighting and unique killings. Some of the action scenes are matrix like. The fighting scene I liked the most was Maggie Q fighting Jewel Lee at the house, because of how the fight ended. What I didn't like much in this movie was some of the music. The music is kinda cheesy and some of the acting was weak.

Rating:
Summary: Bad,,,and not in a good way.
Review: I was very eager to watch this movie when i saw it at the local video store. The cover art was really the biggest draw , and this finally taught me never to judge a book {or dvd} by its cover. I finally got the chance to watch it and it started promisingly enough. A sexy female assasin dispatches her target and the authorities attempt to close in on her boss , Madame M.
Pretty interesting , and only because there is minimal talking from the actors. Things go downhill when the actors begin to speak , and this is when i knew this movie was going to be hard to sit through. The acting in this film is laughable. None of the characters are believable , and any sympathy the viewer feels for the girls will disappear when it becomes apparent they cant act.Not only is the acting deplorable , but the actual story is lame. It makes no sense why an assasination firm would want just one assasin when they could have an army. The Battle Royale aspect of the film has been done ALOT better by other films. When Madame M states the rules to the fight to the death in the cage and then later says she is going to break her own rules , i started laughing , and i stopped watching this movie when the rape scene came on , it was pathetic. The hot women in this film dont make it a good one. So my final recommendation is to steer clear from this movie , and if you still want to watch it , dont pay for it.

Rating:
Summary: Expect the least and maybe you'll enjoy this
Review: If you know what to expect from this silly film, namely, almost no naked girls, extremely idiotic dialogs, a flunking script, and flunking acting, you might just enjoy it. It did remind me of Charlie's Angels, esp. in style, but I found it much less entertaining and enjoyable than the silly-but-cool Charlie's Angels.

Thirty minutes into the film, one of the orphan girls opines "This is total BS. It was BS from day one." This pretty much sums up the film, which proves that attractive and fairly talented actors or actresses don't necessarily know how to act, esp. when the script is a total joke.


Rating:
Summary: "Charlie's Angels" this ain't
Review: In this English-language Hong Kong knock-off of "Charlie's Angels" -- ok, here it's Madam M's "angels" -- three orphaned girls survive the sadistic training of one ugly woman to become the world's top assassins known collectively as China Dolls. In the end, only one will really survive to find her true love in the form of a totally dumb CIA operative.

This movie is just tremendously horrible, a total POS. There's a lot of copycat stuff from the trio of female assassins to bullet-time slow motion to acrobatic and aerobatic kung-fu fights. There is no acting, no script, no substance, and not even much female nudity despite the tantalizing title. (For your reference, nude scenes appear no more than 5 seconds added together.) I was actually bored by this movie from start to finish, and ended up fast-forwarding through much of it. I had picked it up (at Blockbuster) thinking it would be an entertaining mindless kung-fu movie with attractive ladies, but, even though the actresses are somewhat attractive (more so than the new Charlie's Angels?), the whole thing just doesn't add up to much of a viewing experience at all. Especially, the lack of sexiness totally let me down. I should have saved my five bucks.

A total POS that's a total waste of time. One of the worst movies of all time.

Rating:
Summary: Great fight scenes, very little noticeable wire-fu...
Review: Most of us watch action movies to see action. This one delivers in spades. The reality and cruelty of the training is a refreshing change from most candied US offerings. The fight scenes were choreographed expertly and rival Matrix special effects. Maggie Q has such charisma that she draws you into the movie and you can't stop watching it. There's a scene where she's dancing for her victim and she takes off her underwear. Then she tries to kill the guy but he knows in advance and gets the jump on her. The fight that ensues has her twirling and jumping all over the place yet her slip never goes high enough to reveal the goods. Is it CGI or just masterful camera angles? I don't know, but it makes for some teasing fun. If you have doubts rent it first and see for yourself. I enjoyed it though.

Rating:
Summary: warning, do not rent or buy this horrible movie!
Review: my god, what a horrible and hollow movie. i used to fast forward to finish a bad movie, but not even this function on the remote worth wasting your time. what a horrible director, what a horrible screenplay writer, what a bunch of lousy actors-if they could be called actors. i have to admit that i am stupid enough to pick this up to prove it, but you don't have to prove anything, simply shun away from it. 1 star minus 100!