After her successful debut in a number of supporting roles in films such as ACGS2, Swordsman 2 and FSY 1/2, Michelle Reis labored for a couple of years in starring roles in B-movies such as Zen of Sword and The other side of the sea, before finally establishing herself as an A-list actress with her role in Fallen Angels.

BMG is from that B-movie period early on in her career, and there's a good reason this film is almost forgotten now: it's simply not very good! It's yet another female assassin story, but unlike the girls'n guns flics with their emphasis on intense action (and in particular Jade Leung's take on the character in Black Cat), this film focuses almost exclusively on the romantic aspects of the female assassin genre.

Michelle plays dual roles: a killer employed by the Japanese Yakuza, and a HK fashion designer. They look identical, and in fact they are childhood friends who grew up together, until they were separated by a tragic event. The plot gets rolling when the killer gets the assignment to kill her doppelganger, which she does, not recognizing her victim until it's too late. If all this sounds contrived, you're right. And it gets worse. Having to flee the Yakuza, she travels to the remote village where they grew up, assumes her victim's identity and falls in love with a mutual childhood friend. Soon she is busy dealing with her romantic entanglement and simultaneously fending off the police and the Yakuza.

The plot is full of holes and contrivances, and worst of all, there are almost no action scenes. The one extended action sequence involving Michelle shamelessly rips off a famous Joyce Godenzi sequence from Eastern Heroes, but is otherwise not very memorable. Michelle is simply not very believable as the supposedly cold-blooded killer, and the film doesn't help by presenting her mostly as a romantic heroine. She is presented very attractively throughout the movie, and there is some pleasure to be derived from that at least, but otherwise there's nothing much here to recommend this movie. If you like Female Assassin movies, watch Beyond Hypothermia or the recent Bullets of Love instead.