Director: Lee Chiu
Year: 1991
Rating: 7.0

Aka - Mission Kill (American title from Tai Seng)

Ah, this is my type of “Girls with Guns” flick. Action galore, a large body count and the women are deadly and beautiful. There are two Girls with Guns stars in this one plus another woman who gives it her best. It starts with a big drug bust with Moon Lee in the middle of it. The four supervisors all congratulate each other afterwards. Perhaps too soon because the drug cartel decides to kill those that were responsible. This film actually has a decent plot and some character development but what it mainly has is action. Lots of it. And a good cast of action players who know their business. 

They hire Mr. Cool, Simon Yam, almost always with sunglasses on and a grin that spells danger. He runs a hired killer organization as a sideline to his cocaine business. Diversity is important in a risky field. Yam is a tough boss to work for and failure is not tolerated. One employee is shot dead; another has a finger sliced off. If I had worked for a boss like that, my fingers would be easy to count. He sends out three killers to accomplish this – one target for each - Eddie Ko, Ken Lo and a female played by Fujimi Nadeki from Japan. In the Girls with Guns line-up she ranks number three in the Japanese market after Yukari and Michiko, but is still very good and has her moments here. Ken and Nadeki have googlie eyes for one another and think Ko is past his prime. They may be right. The first three killings are easy and efficient. Nadeki does it the old fashioned way - take your target to bed and cut his throat - then take a nice shower afterwards. Relieves the tension. Cleans off the blood. The fourth target is a bit more difficult.

That’s because the fourth target is Moon Lee and we know she doesn’t die easily. Eddie Ko is given the responsibility to kill her. That is drawing the low card. Moon has teamed up with her female partner (Wong Kee-yam) and a FBI agent sent to help out played by Max Mok. He has another job as well though that the girls don’t know about – to flush out an Interpol traitor.  The first attempt doesn't work and they end up capturing Ko and holding him in a safe house. Not that safe as Nadeki marches in with about twenty men to kill Moon, her partner and Ko for failure. A lovely shoot-out takes place and a fight between Moon and Nadeki is excellent. Moon also later takes on Ken Lo and then of course Simon Yam. She takes her lumps but keeps on ticking. This is her film even with Simon and Max Mok in it.  Of course, Simon was still primarily stuck in B films at this point in his career. The final 30 minutes is near non-stop action and there are two big set-pieces in which the bad guys go down like Sonny Liston against Ali. It has that B action shootout look and feel but it is Moon Lee doing the killing so that is just fine.