Angel Force
Director: Hua Shan
Year: 1991
Rating: 7.5
This is simply Moon
Lee at her best - she is involved in some great action and looks beyond adorable
whether in jeans or army fatigues. There is action galore here with
rarely any time passing before the next fight of some kind. It is an interesting
combination of typical "girls with guns" good guys vs. the bad guys - but
it also throws in a large element of Eastern Condors type adventure. It makes
for a thoroughly enjoyable action vehicle that any Moon fans will appreciate.
In this one her police boss (Wilson Lam) assembles a small team of specialized
men (and Moon) to rescue a VIP gwielo in the jungles of Thailand. Once there
though Lam is ambushed by a female assassin and badly wounded - and so it
is up to Moon to take over the mission (only of course, after she revenges
herself on the female in bloody style!). She leads the team deep into the
jungle and they fight nearly every step of the way. The violence escalates
tremendously and takes on a ferocious nature. In the rescue attempt her team
is nearly wiped out and the body count is huge. Then she has to return to
Hong Kong where the action picks up again with a vicious fight against Shing
Fui-on - by the end of this film Moon must have needed a long vacation - but
probably not to Thailand! In the cast also are Johnny Wang as the kidnapper,
Stephen Chan as one of Moon's men and Jimmy Lee as her top supervisor.
