Kim Jeong-yong's action-packed, female-focused Brawl Busters is the type of martial arts pic where you can boil down the story to a single word: REVENGE. The reasons for it may vary from character to character but the passion for executing it is universally intense and tirelessly unrelenting. So who's out to get blood? Well, there's the son of a lech killed by a butterfly stickpin, a dead man's supernaturally gifted daughter (and her pink-garbed posse of kick-ass ladies), and a wandering warrior whose parentage and motivation is infinitely less clear. Don't trouble yourself with trying to discover the inciting incidents beyond that. None of it really matters because Brawl Busters is all about fights and weaponry.
Especially the weapons! You'll see gold mittens with cardboard claws, an impossibly long, white scarf that can unfurl then encase a head, a fan that catches a half-dozen death-darts, a 25-foot-long, sharply tipped braid that's used like a whip, and some vicious pinwheel blades that appear to be hand-operated sometimes, and other times by mind. This is the kind of flick where our heroes jump impossibly high, survive endless blows, and surmount improbable odds. It's also pre-CGI, which means that the majority of the impressive acrobatics are sheer athleticism. What's not to applaud?
"We must capture them alive so that we can torture them to death," sneers the nastiest of the bad guys. But despite the nets, trapdoors, and the amnesia-inducing poison, these Korean-style Robin Hoods aren't going to be easy to ensnare.
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