Product Details

• Actors: Jade Leung, Simon Yam
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Tai Seng Entertainme
• VHS Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00003TKXQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #573,421 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1.0 out of 5 stars You were warned., July 30, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Black Cat [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A cheesy, by-the-numbers Hong Kong remake of La femme Nikita with an elevator-music score, daft subtitles (e.g., "My head feels so hurt," "I'm sorry for swirling you into trouble"), and a reasonable amount of gore. The programmed-killer heroine (Jade Leung), dressed throughout in skimpy or tight outfits, gets a microchip implanted in her brain and is conditioned in prison with torture techniques out of A Clockwork Orange. The story doesn't so much come to an end as stop, and when it did I was very grateful. Directed by Stephen Shin; with Simon Yam and Thomas Lam. Not to be confused with Point of No Return, an American remake of the same movie.

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2.0 out of 5 stars This is one of the Hong Kong movies most people don't see, August 7, 2000

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Tim Lieder "Founder of Dybbuk Press" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black Cat [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I rented this thing out because it claimed to be the Hong Kong version of La Femme Nikita, and it kinda follows the plotline of that movie but I'm starting to hate La Femme Nikita because of it. Not only has that movie spawned a weak American knockoff and a lousy television series, but it has also contributed to my worst movie watching moments with both the idiotic Subway and now this movie.

The main character loses all the power she had in the original. Instead of being a trash talking nasty punk French chick, she's a screaming crying whiny dork who accidently kills a truck driver who beats her senseless first. she also accidently kills the cop that is trying to help her out so she's on death row. Skip to the training and it's the same as La Femme except for the computer chip plot device so popular with Buffy plotlines.

You would think that once she starts killing people she'd get tougher, but no, she screams and cries throughout the movie. One of the reasons why I like Hong Kong movies is because the chicks are strong and well written and they don't just sit around waiting to get rescued. This is one of the exceptions (another one being The Killer, but that has a good performance by Chow Yung Fat so I forgive it.) where she is a whiner.

The ending deviates from the original with the main character staying in the evil killing operation that she's joined up with, but who cares by this point? The canto-pop song and montage is supposed to make you feel bad about her poor boyfriend that she shoots, but you wish it'd happen to everyone else in the movie as well.

Boring movie. Bad plotline. Awful characters. Watch La Femme Nikita again. Watch the Brigit Fonda version even. LEave this one alone.

On the other hand, the sequel might not be so bad, but that's only due to the "Nothing can be this awful" rule of logic and the fact that Hong Kong sometimes makes better sequels than originals (Swordsman)