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Dir. Michel Qissi
USA
Unfortunately most films made are
a waste of time, and when they have covers that suggest something rewarding, that
fact stings more. I don’t even know why it’s Terminator Woman, except to cash in on James Cameron’s films, as science fiction or heavy metal lyric
connotations the title has are nonexistent in this martial arts thriller. Sent
over to Africa to transport a witness against the international villain Alex
Gatelee (Michel Qissi), LA police
partners Julie (Karen Sheperd) and
Jay (Jerry Trimble) find themselves
under fire. Both martial artists, Julie is kidnapped and attempts to escape
while Jay, with the assistance of a boy called Charlie (Siphiwe Mlangeni) goes to get her back from Gatelee, a hidden
plunder of gold bars in the centre of the web alongside the witness.
The film has two good virtues.
Set in Africa, the environment in look and palette adds a unique difference to
an otherwise conventional martial arts film from the United States. Karen Sheperd also stands out; while the
fights are slower and less creative than their Asian counterparts, she does
well as a prescience onscreen. Aside from that Terminator Woman is merely mediocre and forgettable. It pretty much
goes to its expected conclusion without any real surprise to it, and Jerry Trimble, with a dated hairstyle,
really does not stand out as a lead. That the cover and title is trying to sell
Sheperd, the giant chunk of the
narrative he takes up as the lead, without any sense of him commanding it
whatsoever, makes him more incongruous. Even an abrupt, but amusing, sequence
with dirt bikes cannot make Terminator
Woman worth its ninety one minutes.
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| African policemen are armed with crossbows to stop crime. I've only noticed this now, but its completely obvious in this screencap. (From http://img.youtube.com/vi/EiW3xRGLIjk/hqdefault.jpg) |
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