Lady Scorpions Flm Review

Damn. I mean damn. Cynthia Rothrock is only a few years younger than I am and she is still making martial arts action films. I can't lift my leg above my waist. She is amazing. Yes, she has definitely slowed down a lot from her younger days and her age is visible in body and face, but she is still doing it. I hope she isn't at it because she needs the money, but just because she loves it. If you ever see an interview with her, the love for her art is obvious. But some day, she has to just take it easy. Or maybe not. In many of her recent films, she has small parts but here she is center stage though there are a bunch of good fighters along with her. This film had such a good chance to rise above its B petticoats but it feels like they ran out of money at the end. Everything was in place for a huge shootout and nothing. It made no sense. Had to be the budget. You have to overlook the poor acting in a film like this. No one should expect it.

Rothrock is a DEA agent who has been after the same bad guy (Jeff Fahey with a Col Sanders beard) for twenty-years with no success. She has her reasons as we learn later but it is a long time to go without getting your man and her boss reminds her of that. Fahey wants to retire and leave his business to his son, Sonny (Jose Manuel) but Sonny is a psychotic fuck up. Rothrock has a daughter who teaches martial arts. She is the real deal. Caitlan Dechelle who was a world champion martial artist and has been a stunt person in loads of TV shows. In the film she too has a daughter.

And Sonny and his two men Bobo and Ray kidnap the little girl in order to keep Rothrock from sticking her nose in their business. And then Sonny tells Bobo (David Rice) to kill the girl. The two women of course go after them - after torturing poor Ray with hot sauce - and then get tortured themselves. And a bunch of Russians show up looking for revenge against Fahey. And at this point, you expect all hell to break loose. But it doesn't. A fair amount of action. But I wanted a bloodbath at the end. Disappointing because it had potential.