Director: Jamie Luk
Year: 1991
Rating: 7.5
This well-known Category III flick has a little bit of everything for the viewer. Action, comedy, romance, fine looking women, sex between humans, sex between human and robot. The usual mix. This is a HK takeoff of Robocop with a lot of nudity thrown in for good measure. It begins with an Arab Prince being kidnapped while in the comfortable proximity of a number of scantily clad females. The kidnapper is Billy Chow and during his escape he kills a female police officer, Selina.
It turns out that Billy is actually a robot
who has had his inventor’s mind transferred into his operating system. The
only way to combat this is for a female Japanese robotologist and her assistant
Amy Yip to do the same thing with Selina - (transference can only take place
with a dead person!) - and so Selina is born anew, but none of her colleagues
are aware of this change. Not even her boyfriend who commences to have passionate
sex with her. Selina is played by a Japanese actress - Aoyama Chikako - and
she is almost the anatomical equal of the Yipster, but not nearly so coy
about hiding her assets.
The Billy robot starts killing prostitutes in frustration because they can’t seem to make him climax - seemingly forgetting that robots may have a problem with that. So the Yipster - who it turns out is a robot as well (I want to order that model ) but without human transference - wants to understand what making love is all about - “I must try men’s love making some day” - volunteers to go undercover as a prostitute. So she is set up in a massage parlor and not surprisingly there is soon a line around the block of male clients waiting their turn!
Finally the big fight comes and it is kind
of fun watching Amy and Aoyama trading kicks with Billy Chow. Now who would
I put my money on? This is not a great film but it is a bit of a hoot and
the charms of these women are cotton candy on the eyeballs. One interesting
tidbit that I read about in Mondo Macabro is that the prostitute that is
killed by Billy Chow after a torrid sex scene is a Taiwanese actress named
Hsu Hsiao Dan. She ran for the Taiwanese parliament with the slogan - "Using
breasts to fight against fists". I could certainly get behind that political
movement!
