Ok Boys! Get one hand free because I've got just the girl for you! She beautiful, graceful, and most of all...deadly. This girl is the ultimate bodyguard. Any of you brave men willing to donate the body?

Cheryl (Maryann Towne) works for Mark (Rodd Stone) as a bodyguard for hire. She's more than good at her job and carries around more than a few secrets about her past. When Mark assigns her to protect Kou Sawamura (Chunky Mon) Cheryl figures it's just another job. Sawamura is the kind of guy who just doesn't die fast enough. He's a repulsive and whiney jewel cutter from Hong Kong and he has a nasty habit of pawning off fake jewels to his customers. He makes exact copies of the real jewel, gives the customer the fake and keeps the real piece for himself. He's made himself just a little unpopular and now he's a hunted man.

I'm sure you're all wondering who's after our little jewel cutter. A notorious hit man, known only as the Owl (Scottie Ray) is after him. He's also known as the ear collector. Anyone want to guess why? The Owl is one of the most feared hit men. Rumor has it he never misses his mark and will go to the four corners of the earth to find his intended target.

Cheryl's job is to keep Sawamura alive long enough to get him on a boat back to Hong Kong with his jewels intact. It's not an easy job, either. Sawamura has a problem following directions. Especially if they're handed out by a woman. She'll have to match wits with the Owl to keep Sawamura alive. Anyone want to bet on who wins?

Let me start off by saying this kind of movie is not really my favorite as it's kind of a run of the mill action film. Although there are tons of fight scenes there's not a whole lot in the story or dialog department. As far as this movie itself goes, it was pretty satisfying although it's not my favorite genre. It held my attention far longer than most action movies do, I'll say that much. The fight scenes where well choreographed and they even managed to slip in some fairly erotic scenes as well. It was definitely not the worst way to spend an hour and a half.

The original Japanese version (presented here) was filmed in 1996 and you can tell by its look that it is an older movie, however it didn't really detract from the film itself. There are some excellent lighting techniques for the more erotic scenes and the picture stayed fairly clear through the whole film. The subtitles run through the length of the movie and of note is the fact that the printed word doesn't always match the spoken dialog. It was kind of distracting at first but I got used to it pretty quick. If you read along with the subtitles you'll come across more then a few extra lines of dialog that aren't actually spoken.

Sound is presented in Dolby Digital Stereo while the dialogue is dubbed in English, so you can actually hear the dubbing over the original soundtrack. It was pretty clear though and I didn't find myself reaching for the remote to adjust the volume as everything stayed pretty well balanced.

The special features include: Character Profiles, a Trivia Quiz, Trailers and also features a DVD-ROM option. You need to have a DVD-ROM drive and windows 95 or higher to view. The special features there include: An Art Gallery, Script, and Cast and Production credits.

On a whole this was a pretty good movie. Like I said before, it's not really my thing, but I did enjoy it. If you are into action movies and scantily clad women who can really kick butt, I'd say go for it. What's the worst that could happen?

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