There is no doubt that Luxia Jiang is skilled in martial arts. If this
movie intended to show us that fact than it has served it's purpose
nicely. Too bad that as a viewer I demand much more. Movies like this
should contain exciting fight scenes. While there were nice moments
that made me admire Luxia I had real trouble in watching these fight
sequences. For some reason it was very hard to keep watching. The
editing was sloppy to say the least and the background music ruined
almost every scene that it was used in. Now I can understand that most
of this can be blamed on the director's inexperience. But wasn't there
anybody involved who could have told him that he was doing a bad job.
And did everything had to be so serious. This movie could have used
some comic relief. I also want to add something about a comment made by
one of the reviewers on imdb.com regarding this film. This guy commented that this
movie delivered on what Hong Kong golden age directors failed to do
with their female talent. Even the worst movies in the girls of guns
genre (Eighties and Nineties) pulled more punches than this one. And
believe me I have seen a lot. (Just shows you that some people have no clue what they are talking about.) Coweb is filled with action and stunts.
And I hate to say but in this case it is not a good thing. Because it
gets very tiring to see Luxia doing the same kick over and over again
without having it some effect on the guy/woman that gets kicked. There
was this one fight where Luxia had to fight another woman which mostly
consisted of these women spinning around without hitting each other
once. Looked very silly to me. Talk about failing to use the female
talent available!
Oh and if you were expecting ninja's. There are none. I wished marketing people would be more creative when advertising for these kinds of movies. Or at least used titles that actually referred to the content of the film instead of randomly making stuff up.
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