Reviewed by: calros Date: 03/28/2019 Summary: Decent Girls with Guns movie Godfrey Ho imitates John Woo's style, he does it almost as well as he does. Sibelle plays an expeditious CIA agent who investigates the Lam Chung's mafia family installed in the Philippines and his heirs Lawrence Ng and Lee Chun-Wa, who want to kill each other. So they hire two hit women, Yoko Miyamoto and Maria Yuen to do the dirty work. Their boyfriends, Ken Lo and Mak Wai-Cheung are also hired assassins, and their bosses are Alex Fong and Wong Wan-Choi... who also want to kill each other, of course. All will end up shooting each other and only one will survive the killing to end up in prison. Good action scenes, weapons and martial arts, tons of sex scenes and some fun moments, like the death of Lawrence Ng. Reviewer Score: 6

Reviewed by: cal42 Date: 03/07/2007 Summary: It's bad I get extremely ratty with people who say “oh, those foreign kung fu movies, they don’t have any PLOT, do they?” I argue that every Hong Kong action film I’ve seen has at least some form of plot, and that many have great convoluted twisty-turny plots that make you scratch your head and that just a few have absolutely stunning plots. However, it’s hard to come up with a defence for this. Maybe it’s THIS film that they’re all talking about. There may be a plot in there, there may not. I couldn’t really figure it out, to be honest. Everything seems extremely haphazard and thrown together without the slightest bit of care. I seriously thought I was watching fight scenes from two separate films bolted together to make one incomprehensible mess. Apparently not, though. What’s even more disappointing is the fact that I’ve seen some decent low-budget films from Godfrey Ho that have actually been pretty entertaining (DYNAMITE SHOALIN HEROES and EAGLE VS SILVER FOX for example). This, though, is pure toss. It tries to be sexy, it tries to be action-packed and it tries to be competent. But the truth is, it fails on all levels. Best avoided. Reviewer Score: 2

Reviewed by: Frank Lakatos Date: 03/27/2006 Summary: Horrible Filipino coproduction This is a horrible Filipino coproduction with ugly women and uninteresting scenes. Overhyped trash. Godfrey Ho's Deadly Target is slightly better because the actresses are slightly more watchable. Check out part 2. It's one of the best Filipino coproductions ever. 1/5

Reviewed by: Inner Strength Date: 02/21/2002 Summary: Terrible cult action movie Known more here in the UK as the so-called famous 'Deadly China Dolls', this is film followed a more cult audience more than anything, therefore meaning most people with real brains would find this dull and boring. The action scenes though are very good at times, probably the only good thing about the film. Forget the plot, the story and the acting though, it's all bad. Even Sibelle Hui seemed to have trouble acting. Rating: [2/5]

Reviewed by: STSH Date: 12/31/2000 Summary: Some notes I agree substantially with the above review, although I would argue that Godfrey Ho is trying to remake John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, with female protagonists. The Cat 3 rating is for a few sex scenes scattered in at random, which feature some brief frontal nudity. For fans of Sibelle Hu and Lawrence Ng, you may be disappointed. Sib and Larry are essentially guest stars, and their chars don't really have a lot to do with the main story. Reviewer Score: 5

Reviewed by: hkcinema Date: 12/08/1999 A tale of loyalty, betrayal, and honor among thieves with morethan a passing nod to John Woo's "The Killer". Maria Jo and Yoko Miyamoto are professional female assassins whose most recent jobs are to kill each other. CIA agent Sibelle Hu is busy trying to track them down and break up a counterfeiting operation at the same time. This is far from great film making and the continuity is atrocious, but there are some excellent "girls with guns" action sequences, highlighted by intelligent camera work and thoughtful slow motion shots. Maria Jo's performance burns with fierce intensity and she dominates every scene that she's in. [Reviewed by Alex Smits]