The Blue Angels - consisting of three pretty ladies - are hired to protect Jacky, a gangster who claims to own a list of all gangsters belonging to his organization. Actually, he hasn't got such a list, but it makes a wonderful `McGuffin' for fights, fights, and then some more fights, as the police and various gangsters try to get hold of that list. Average action movie, but never tedious = ok to spend a rainy day with (voted 5/10).
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"I've just made some mango pudding"
hwg1957-102-26570416 July 2023
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The Blue Angels (not to be confused with the Iron Angels) protect a witness while bringing down a crime syndicate involved in drugs and slavery. There is a lot of action in this film and it's great. Standing out in a good cast is the incomparable Moon Lee as Yau Li, a Blue Angel going undercover in a night club to make contacts. She performs a musical number which shows off her physical prowess to perfection. Most entertaining. Also fine are Gordon Liu Chia-Hui as a melancholy hitman who can't lay down his gun, Takajo Fujimi as the jealous and deadly gangster's daughter and Kingdom Yuen King-Tan as another Blue Angel fending off the amourous intentions of the dubious witness. The shoot out at the end is fast, frenetic and full of fusillades. Another thrilling Hong Kong action film from the late 1980's.
Killer Angels
coltras3526 December 2022
Three female cops form a special unit and get their main witness out of the clutches of a gang. The witness holds the key to Chu Chung Sing, a gang-lord who runs a night-club. They will have to face a ruthless but sentimental killer.
More action-packed mayhem with Moon Lee which has some impressive fights and gunfights - there's the usual bloody squibs and dark undertone of women slavery. It's well-paced, the narrative has a certain fluidity, there's some plot twists and interesting characters like the revenge-seeking mum, the duplicitous character called Jackie Chan - not The Jackie Chan - and the sentimental killer played by Gordon Liu. Liked the song Moon Lee sings in the nightclub.
More action-packed mayhem with Moon Lee which has some impressive fights and gunfights - there's the usual bloody squibs and dark undertone of women slavery. It's well-paced, the narrative has a certain fluidity, there's some plot twists and interesting characters like the revenge-seeking mum, the duplicitous character called Jackie Chan - not The Jackie Chan - and the sentimental killer played by Gordon Liu. Liked the song Moon Lee sings in the nightclub.
Mediocre action film that is both conventional and predictable...
jmaruyama14 August 2010
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Moon Lee's 1989 "Girls N Guns" action film "Killer Angels" (AKA "Extreme Vengeance" and in some references "Megaforce")is a passable entry in the HK action film genre but is somewhat silly at times and fails to match up with Moon Lee's other films. It certainly is not Moon Lee's best but she does look good and the action scenes are quite good despite the relatively low budget.
Moon Lee and Kingdom Yuen King-Tan are two rough-and-tumble girls that are part of a private investigation team known only as the "Blue Angels". Their handlers Chan Pooi-Kei and Tony Liu Jun-Guk send them on a mission to protect a former member of a Chinese Triad group known only as the "Shadow Gangsters". Suave gangster Jacky Chen ( Lau Siu-Gwan ) offers to give them a complete list of members of that crime syndicate in exchange for personal protection. However when the Shadow Gangsters learn of this betrayal. Their sadistic boss, played by perennial HK bad-guy Leung Kar-Yan decides to take matters in his own hands and sends a mysterious mob enforcer named Michael (played by legendary martial artist and star of "Master Killer" Gordon Liu Chia-Hui) after him. However when Michael unexpectedly sides with the Blue Angels, he sends a team of other henchmen after the Blue Angels including Michael's shotgun happy sometime lover (played by Takajo Fujimi), imposing Shing Fui-On and foreign fighters Mark Houghton and Wayne Archer.
While director Chin-Ku Lu (Holy Flame of the Martial World; Lady Assassin; The Death of Bruce Lee) does keep things interesting, the overall movie has a definite cheapness about it and ultimately disappoints with a somewhat confusing and conventional storyline with the atypical crime drama twists and turns. Even though the action scenes are pretty good, they don't really match up with Moon Lee's much better "Angel" films. "Killer Angels" is entertaining enough but definitely only for Moon Lee fans. I really got a kick out of Moon Lee's 80s pop singing scene and while I can't tell if she does her own singing or not, it definitely shows another side of her that I wish she had displayed more in other movies.
Moon Lee and Kingdom Yuen King-Tan are two rough-and-tumble girls that are part of a private investigation team known only as the "Blue Angels". Their handlers Chan Pooi-Kei and Tony Liu Jun-Guk send them on a mission to protect a former member of a Chinese Triad group known only as the "Shadow Gangsters". Suave gangster Jacky Chen ( Lau Siu-Gwan ) offers to give them a complete list of members of that crime syndicate in exchange for personal protection. However when the Shadow Gangsters learn of this betrayal. Their sadistic boss, played by perennial HK bad-guy Leung Kar-Yan decides to take matters in his own hands and sends a mysterious mob enforcer named Michael (played by legendary martial artist and star of "Master Killer" Gordon Liu Chia-Hui) after him. However when Michael unexpectedly sides with the Blue Angels, he sends a team of other henchmen after the Blue Angels including Michael's shotgun happy sometime lover (played by Takajo Fujimi), imposing Shing Fui-On and foreign fighters Mark Houghton and Wayne Archer.
While director Chin-Ku Lu (Holy Flame of the Martial World; Lady Assassin; The Death of Bruce Lee) does keep things interesting, the overall movie has a definite cheapness about it and ultimately disappoints with a somewhat confusing and conventional storyline with the atypical crime drama twists and turns. Even though the action scenes are pretty good, they don't really match up with Moon Lee's much better "Angel" films. "Killer Angels" is entertaining enough but definitely only for Moon Lee fans. I really got a kick out of Moon Lee's 80s pop singing scene and while I can't tell if she does her own singing or not, it definitely shows another side of her that I wish she had displayed more in other movies.
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