Killer Angels (1989)
Reviewed by: CaptainAmerica on 2002-06-11
Summary: One of Moon Lee's best!
I read somewhere that this is the best of the ANGEL "ripoffs"...all things considered this film does share more than one trait with the classic Moon/Yukari actioner, and not accidentally! However, it is one of the best, whether you call it a ripoff, an actioner, or a Moon Lee film!

Moon has rarely looked or performed better than in KILLER ANGELS. She is one of a team of professional mercenaries known as the Blue Angels hired by law enforcement to protect a witness named Jacky Chan(!) who promises to turn over evidence guaranteed to break his former triad employers. Along the way Moon and her partner must contend with a professional killer (the "Master Killer" himself, Gordon Liu!), his VERY jealous would-be girlfriend (Nadeki Fujimi), Jacky -- who not only is a wolf but has a dirty deal up his sleeve, and even a new recruit to the Angels who wants to kill Jacky for revenge!

All of the actors involved in this movie provide solid performances...but the best part of this movie is Moon Lee. She's rarely looked better, as I said before, but she also gets to do something she's never done in any other film (at least that I know of): she sings! Tricked out like Sheena Easton in her '80s heyday, Moon headlines a song-and-dance number in a triad-owned nightclub! (She's pretty good for being undercover!) All kidding aside, is there anything Moon CAN'T do?

Fair warning: I managed to get ahold of the subtitled version which features Moon's singing scene, but in the English Dubbed version the entire scene was cut out! (Translation problems, I guess!)