Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Best Film & Video Co
• VHS Release Date: October 1, 1996
• Run Time: 76 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304235461
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,454 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars AKA Lady Dragon II, January 30, 2002

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Mike "davismw2000" (MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel of Fury [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Angel of Fury (or LadyDragon II in the states)is an interesting movie for fans of Cynthia Rothrock. It has all the high kicking and fast punching action you would expect from her.
The movie starts with two different scenes one a kickboxing match and the other a scene where the three bad guys kill two mob guys for a load of diamonds. The bad guys place the diamonds in the luggage of Susan (Cynthia)and her husband and follow them home. Where they torture and basically rape Susan. After the main villian kills her husband Susan sysmatically gains vengence by killing the bad guys one by one. All until the final exiting climax at the end

3.0 out of 5 stars "I don't want some pansy-[butt] girl getting in the way, screwing things up", February 2, 2010

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Mike Sehorn "Rezo the Dezo" (APO, AE United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel of Fury [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Indonesian films have made up quite a bit of Cynthia Rothrock's film career: Lady Dragon and Rage & Honor 2 - Hostile Takeover, along with this one, represent either a penchant for good international cinema relations or just Cynthia scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to getting her films made cheaply. Rest assured, there's nothing wrong with making a film overseas like this, but don't be fooled by any kind words you read later - this movie is very cheap indeed. To its credit, all of its efforts have been focused on making it a veritable action opus by skimping on everything that didn't directly involve punches or kicks, but even its abundance of martial arts flurries might not be enough to make some viewers look beyond its faults.

The story: security specialist Nancy Bolan (Rothrock) is hired by a company to deliver a top-secret computer into Indonesia. When she's thrice-thwarted by a sadistic criminal mastermind looking to take possession of the equipment (Peter O'Brian, The Stabilizer) and leaves her friends and partners dead, Nancy realizes that the only way to thwart his plans is with a direct, physical confrontation.

To consider this movie positively is to look at it as seat-of-the-pants filmmaking at its finest. Besides having that filmed-in-the-'70s porno look to it, "Angel of Fury" is a comedy of errors when it comes to plot ideas and technical coherency. The least of its concerns is its acting content, which wasn't important to begin with but features Rothrock's signature poor performance and an entire cast of voice-dubbed Indonesian nationals. Transitions between scenes have very little ebb & flow to them, so that there's absolutely no buildup to, say, Cynthia getting mugged on the street - just a shot of her walking along followed by a shot of some goon trying to grab her briefcase. This fault carries over to the fight scenes, where it's occasionally hard to tell if the person being kicked by Cynthia is a bad guy or just some hapless bystander who got in her way. A few logic-bending scenes are delivered when, for example, Cynthia is drugged early on and wakes up on an island, where she's promptly attacked by more goons before being grabbed from behind by...her ex-lover who proceeds to kiss her on the lips? Sheesh, does that man know how to bring a girl on a date or what? There's another little gem scene where a young friend of Cyn's is kidnapped in a shopping mall: the little girl struggles and screams bloody murder for three straight minutes as she's carried through a crowd of people, and absolutely nobody seems concerned enough to come to her aid! Talk about complete and total apathy!

As painfully entertaining as all of that is, it's all delivered as side-attractions to what feels like one long action scene. In total, there are six separate hand-to-hand fight brawls, three shootouts, one shootout during a boat/jet ski chase, and one car/motorcycle chase, all of which delivered without an excess of flair but with a joyful abandon that could only have come from relaxed safety laws and a willingness to try anything once. The fistfights aren't overly creative in their choreography, but are definitely modeled after the Hong Kong action style that Cynthia's best known for, letting her show off a lot of kicks. The shootouts aren't too interesting, but the final gunfight features some intervals of abrupt, unnecessary fast-forwarding of footage, so that the scene looks like a particularly violent episode of "The Little Rascals". Quantity trumps quality here, but the content is good enough to enjoy and appreciate, even though it's not going to make you forget any of Cynthia's better work.

This used to be one of those films that you rented on a whim without really knowing what it was about, but nowadays it's one you have to hunt for with special interests in mind. Fans of Rothrock can definitely do a lot better for a lot less money, but for the sake of one of her more exotic romps, pick it up for a laugh.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Angel of Blurry, September 12, 2002

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Charles Tatum - See all my reviews

This review is from: Angel of Fury [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Horribly dubbed film has Rothrock trying to stop a terrorist from stealing a super computer. Some good action scenes are negated by sloppy editing and too much violence- including a child's murder. Even the normally reliable Rothrock cannot save this.