Bao 3 qiao jiao wa (2013)

Bao 3 qiao jiao wa: Directed by Goo-Bi GC. With Chrissie Chau, Hidy Yu, Dada Lo, Tien You Chui. The story of a group of promiscious yet level-headed women who fall into troubles in the fighting world.

“This movieu0026#39;s selling point is of course the promise of getting to see attractive Hong Kong women duking it out on the screen. And yes, there is an audience for that. Either I am not in that particular target audience or I just wasnu0026#39;t enthralled by what u0026quot;Kick Ass Girlsu0026quot; was selling. This was a rather mundane and pointless movie in my opinion.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is about three women who practice martial arts in Hong Kong, who get lured to Malaysia under false pretenses and end up having to do battle in an underground tournament. Can we say u0026quot;Bloodsportu0026quot; anyone? u0026quot;Kick Ass Girlsu0026quot; offered absolutely nothing to the martial arts genre that hadnu0026#39;t already been seen before in similar movies. No, everything here was generic and anything but outstanding.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was especially impressed with the guitar player in the gym who managed to get violin sounds out of an acoustic guitar. That was just fantastically stupid.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere were some nice enough costumes and make-up for some of the fighters brought into the ring. But that hardly made up for all the stuff that was lacking in the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs for the fight scenes, well they were adequate. And that is actually just about it. It was adequately choreographed but executed in a much too scripted manner. It just lacked a natural flow to it. And it was clear to see that martial arts was not something some of the women were overly familiar with, as they lacked the finesse and grace that comes with years of practice.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll in all, u0026quot;Kick Ass Girlsu0026quot; is a hollow movie sold of alluring promises to lure in the male audience. And the DVD cover does promise more than the movie did manage to deliver.”