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A crime organization recruits or kidnaps forty very young girls to train and develop them to
become female assassins known as the China Dolls. Madame M (Almen Wong) in-charge of recruitment supervises the girls training in all aspects of making killing an art form,
but also includes becoming a very desirable woman.
It is Madame M's belief that men are weakest when they are the happiest, thus the girls are also trained to give sexual pleasure to their targets before killing them. In the group, two girls become very close friends, Charlene (Maggie Q), a sensitive, pretty, family-oriented girl and Katt (Anya) an equally pretty street urchin. After 6 years of training, the girls are subjected to the final test to determine who among them would be the next female assassin. The test requires that the girls fight each other to the death until only one survives, however, Madame M sees three girls worthy to become assassins, Charlene, Katt and Jing (Jewel Lee).
The film is full of wirework action scenes, which truly adds to the over-all look. It is also
important to note that the actresses remain beautiful despite killing several armed men. They also look physically fit and well trained to do all the fight scenes.
Some portions of the story seem too fantastic to be true, such as maintaining a vicious training island for would be assassins guarded by armed men. Acting definitely needs improvement. Special effects are good and contribute immensely to the film's appeal. The story needs to be improved to further develop the character of Charlene, which the plot gravitates to.
The film is an exploitation hidden in action scenes. A beautiful woman's charm is used to
totally disarm a man and kill him after winning his trust. Killing is never justifiable, probably certain mitigating conditions, but never for profit.
God-given talents and physical attributes must be used for the good and to promote Christ's teachings. Even in a life which is thought to be in disarray, there will always be a solution as long as you listen to the voice of The one who created us all and speaks to us through our conscience.
(Date Reviewed: August 08, 2003)
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