Body Weapon (1999)
Reviewed by: ryan on 1999-11-21
Summary: Body Weapon (1999)
In the past few weeks, there seems to be lots of movies involving sex objects, we have KEI Heung in 'Erotic Nightmare' and FONG Ching in 'The Fruit is Ripe'. This time we have Angie CHEUNG Wai-yee in 'Body Weapon'. In addition, it is a bit strange but interesting to see CHIU Man-cheuk is also in the movie as a pair with CHEUNG.

The main plot of the movie started from a raped murder. Officer LEE (Stephen AU Kam-tong) and WU (CHIU Man-cheuk) are good friends and they investigate the raped murder case with CHAN Siu-ling (Angie CHEUNG Wai-yee) while both of them fall in love with Siu-ling. It seems a bit painful as their boss doesn't like such triangle relationship. Finally, Siu-ling married LEE. On the wedding night, the raped murder falls to LEE and Siu-ling. LEE is killed while Siu-ling is rped. As this is a great impact to her, Siu-ling decided to trap the murder. With introduction from her friend (Pinky CHUENG Man-chi), Siu-ling hooks up a gay teacher (Clarance FORD Yiu-leung) and he teaches Siu-ling how to use herself as 'Body Weapon' ......

Judging from the movie poster, you consider there are sexy scenes from Angie CHEUNG Wai-yee. Yeap, there is not only some but very erotic. The first few minutes describes a raping case which is erotic enough to make you wonder if you are watching 'Erotic Nightmare'. Thorugout the whole movie, CHEUNG puts off her clothes from time to time make you feel sexy. At least, they are able to sell the selling point as expected.

In view of the plot, I am sorry to say that it does not make any sense at all. For example, the first scene for Officer Siu-ling is how she induces two teenages in a Police Station, which is totally irrational. It seems that they would like to elaborate some points, like how LEE and WU love Siu-ling, how great the impact is to Siu-ling and so on. I consider they are able to do the latter part but not the first part. Maybe some of the reasons is that they have to preserve some action scenes for CHIU Man-cheuk. Maybe more elaborations should be put on the feelings of WU to make it more concrete.

In addition, the path for finding the murder is also a bit too simple. Audience may get their answer after watching the first one-third of the movie. In their ad. they claim 'Body Weapon' as a extra for the series of 'Raped by an Angel', we expect the successful factors including the sexy of actress as well as the plot. 'Body Weapon' seems should improve for the later part.

Another point I would like to point out is the typical scene. Stephen AU Kam-tong once again putting his tricks in 'What You Gonna Do, Sai Fung' (1959) into this movie totally. This may annoy audience as they abuse the use of imitations of Bruce LEE.

In terms of performance, Angie CHEUNG Wai-yee is able to cast as a sex object. CHIU Man-cheuk seems still need to polish his acting. The plot has helped CHIU a bit but audience expect CHIU with more romantic scene in any form. One point I would like to point out is the outstanding performance of Clarance FORD Yiu-leung. FORD acts as a gay and he is able to act in a proper way while audience laughts with his scene.

On the whole, 'Body Weapon' wants to do as another movie like its 'Raped by an Angel' series while Angie CHEUNG is quite sexy. However, the pointless of the plot and the typical performance of other actors has downgraded the whole movie as a substandard production. It is also too erotic for audience to accept.