Diagonaldi Very well executed

GazerRise Fantastic!

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Uriah43 This movie begins with a female Chinese assassin named "Theona Birch" (Marit Thoresen) getting out of a car at a hotel in Rome. Once she gets to her assigned hotel room she then has sex with the occupant before killing him with her bare hands. After that she also kills the guards waiting outside of the hotel room but is subsequently killed while attempting to drive off. As it so happens, the assassin worked for an Asian woman named "Madame M" (Almen Pui-Ha Wong) who recruits young girls at around the age of twelve and trains them on how to fight and kill at her own special camp on a remote island. After six years of intense training the young women are then tasked to kill each other with only three women by the names of "Charlene Ching" (Maggie Q) "Jing" (Jewel Lee), and "Catherine" (Anya) managing to survive. Afterwards, they are given one last brutal lesson by being raped and then sent on their respective missions. However, the CIA is aware of them and one specific agent named "Jack Chen" (Daniel Wu) has made it his personal mission to track down Madame M and abolish her organization--and Charlene is his main target in that regard. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this film had its good points and bad points. It started off pretty well and the action definitely kept things moving along at a brisk pace. Likewise, Maggie Q, Jewel Lee and Anya certainly didn't hurt the scenery in any way. On the other hand, the script was in need of serious improvement, the acting was mediocre and some of the scenes were much too silly and far-fetched. All in all then, while I don't believe that this was a bad film necessarily, the faults were just too obvious to be ignored and because of that I have rated this movie accordingly. Average.

a_baron "Naked Weapon" has been called been called many things, but strangely the phrase child abuse doesn't seem to have been attached to it. What else would you call a film that in its second scene sees a young girl fighting a man, and in its third scene sees another one murdered because having been lured away by the mysterious Madam M, she wants to go home?There are plenty of things one can do with young girls, looking at them, simply admiring their beauty, is not only more edifying, it is also legal, feminist nonsense about objectification aside.Seriously, "Naked Weapon" is garbage, a bizarre fantasy, but garbage all the same. Admittedly it has something for everyone wrapped up in its wooden script: a gang rape scene, sex on the beach, even a hint of lesbianism along with the ludicrous fight scenes - which like so many in this genre defy the laws of physics; torture, nostalgia, and a Chinese special agent who can't speak his mother tongue.If you like action and mild special effects, you might find something here; the background music isn't that bad, but when you've said that, you've said it all.

himboy32 Naked Weapon tells the story of Charlene, a young Eurasian girl who is taken from her family at a young age by the ominous Madam M and raised as an assassin, while training she meets Katherine, whom she develops a sisterly bond with, six years later they are dispatched into the real world to use their skills as Madam M sees fit. Soon a police detective who has been searching for Charlene for ever since she disappeared but soon an mysterious figure who has a personal vendetta with Madam M and her syndicate appears and both Charlene and Katherine must use the skills they have learnt to defend themselves.This movie began it's life as a follow up to Wong Jing's cult classic Naked Killer but as with most of Jing's projects, the finished product is different to what was originally conceived.So I'll begin with the film's plot, it's your average Wong Jing affair, two dimensional characters and some bland dialogue backed by some uneven acting, this is essentially an action movie, so really there's little need to care for the characters or the situations they find themselves in. Though, there where a lot of films with plots similar to this made in the 1980's when the Hong Kong film industry was at it's peak in terms of quality and amount of releases.The acting, like I said, is uneven, Daniel Wu and Anya are the only two which give notable performances, I would say the same for Maggie Q but unfortunately her performance dips into melodramatic a couple times, though her performance overall is very good. There's no denying both Maggie and Anya are two extremely beautiful women so if the plot doesn't grab you, the leading ladies' good looks will.The directing is competent, Ching Siu-Tung, who also did the film's martial arts sequences, did a good job, his talents can also be seen on the Steven Seagel sleeper hit Belly Of The Beast. the visuals are very good, that sheer will of the directing alone gives this film a high recommendation. though there is one particular sequence which should have been cut down or at least completely removed but alas this is a Wong Jing produced film so what can you do?The action scenes are brilliant, Ching did a great job making anybody who threw a punch or a kick look like martial arts machines, don't expect anything realistic, that's not his style, it's very over the top but for a movie such as Naked Weapon, it works.So overall I highly recommend this to Hong Kong film fans as it recalls itself to the glory days of HK film in the 80's when films being released like this where the norm and not over-stuffed pop vehicles like the industry seems to more interested in now.For you DVD junkies I recommend the Region 2 double disc platinum release, it's chock full of great extras.

movieman_kev Madame M (Almen Wong) lures a couple dozen prepubescent girls to a remote island, where she trains them to be highly skilled assassins, in the later training stages forcing them to kill each other until one survives, but she changes her mind and lets 3 girls live to go on missions for her as highly paid killers, Charlen, Katt, and Jill. CIA agent recognizes Charlen (Maggie Q( as a girl he's been looking to find for years and tries to help her get back with her parents. The flimsy plot is really just an excuse for pretty well choreographed fight scenes and titillation. However, the first act after the credits of the kidnapped girls training and living in a make-shift prison hampers the film greatly before it barely gets off the ground. Two other downfalls are that it has the most silly, nonsensical rape scene that I've ever seen, an ending that's too damn abrupt, and more importantly a shower scene wherein NO ONE gets naked, not even a token extra or two. That alone should be a cardinal sin in the annals of B-movie action films. I didn't particularly care for this one.Eye Candy: Maggie Q, and Marit Thoresen get topless My Grade: D Where I saw it: Starz on Demand (available until September 15th, 2005)