Naked Weapon (2002)

No. It's not a "so bad it's good" movie. Yes, this movie has hot chicks with tight butts and pretty faces. Yes, this movie has some good martial arts and gun fighting action. Yes, it has bloody violence that can cause a sexual provocation. Unfortunately, this has to be one of the most exasperating movies I have ever seen. I couldn't finish it. The acting was so horrible, I wished everyone in this movie died. And it's not the kind of acting that is bad in a funny way, either. It is like crying children combined with a chalkboard being scratched perpetually. The story had some good ideas like having a secret place that kidnaps 13 years old girls and training them to be killers and **** but the execution results in stupid friendship, lousy dramatization and horrible characterization. On a positive note, you get to see Suzy Q do the splits and you get to see her PERFECT BUTT! And the action...... you know what? Kiss my fat ***! This movie sucks. In conclusion: I wouldn't recommend this movie. That is all.

I will readily admit that I expected something completely different from what I got when I watched Naked Weapon. It has all the ingredients, including the title, of your standard t&a action flick, a curious subgenre that I am not completely averse to, although my girlfriend picked out the movie so I thought I was about to enjoy a guilt-free 90 minutes or so of relentlessly gratuitous nudity. Nope! Surprisingly enough, the movie has almost no nudity at all and makes an honest effort to pass on an honest and moving story. That second part is an almost total failure, of course, but I give them points for effort. It's one of those rare movies where the tagline tells you almost everything you need to know about the movie – they seduce you before they kill you!Yeah, whatever. That's just a promise for the endless nudity and sex scenes that aren't in the movie, and it actually does the movie a disservice by promising nothing but empty t&a while the movie itself is really trying to tell a good story. Whether or not the story is any good is up to you to decide, but I'm here to warn you that it's essentially a ripoff of Battle Royale, except it's not good. A cold-blooded woman named Madame M kidnaps 40 preteen girls and takes them to an island at an undisclosed location in the middle of the ocean. They are offered a polite invitation to leave if they're unhappy upon their arrival, with the small detail that they are machine-gunned down on their way back to the helicopter. Those that remain spend the next 6 years of their lives going through a brutal boot-camp designed to turn them into deadly, hottie assassins. You see, I can say hottie about a lot of 12-year-old girls here because by the time any of them are hot they're at least 6 years older than 12 and have killed all of the rest of the girls, usually with their bare hands, and really, what's hotter than chicks killing each other?Well, your answer to that question will basically predict your opinion of the movie. If you would have no problem watching a bunch of puberty-bound girls being trained how to be sexy and how to be deadly at the same time, then this thing is for you. Personally I didn't mind it too much. I really wish they would have toned down the catastrophically bad acting and sporadic avalanches of cheese, but for a movie that attempts to give us such a belligerently outlandish premise as this and maintain a straight face, you have to give it at least some recognition. Good luck keeping a straight face yourself, though

'Naked Weapon' is typical, no plot action film, that tries its best to keep the viewer interested with one action scene after another. No need to talk about acting with this film, as it was mostly mediocre, at worst horrible.Mysterious madame M (Almen Wong Pui-Ha) is kidnapping young girls and training them to be assassins, who use any weapons, including their bodies, they can find as deadly as possible. Three girls survive this brutal schooling, which ends in one of the most unintentionally funny rape scenes ever filmed. Then the girls hit the world and pointlessly kill some dudes and then there's this big end fight, but for some reason, well okay, the reason is told but it all is rather silly actually, the main baddies changes in the last minute... go figure.I won't say, that 'Naked Weapon' is a horrible film, but it certainly has no plot and it tends to get a bit boring at times, and that is saying something, as the length of the film is roughly 90 minutes and it is full of action. Worts thing about it is, that it actually does have good main idea, but sadly the rest of the film isn't in the same level as the beginning of the tale.Without sales bin I wouldn't have ever even known about this film. Now I do, though I have creeping suspicion, that I'll forget about it pretty soon.

If you like the Slow-motion, Martial-arts, Asian-action style stuff; then you'll like, maybe even love this film. Otherwise there is much to be desired. The acting especially by Daniel Wu is horrific, the others not that much better, and I really don't like the Shakespearean 'talk to the audience about your thoughts narration' that simply breaks up whatever dramatic or action sequence that is going on.The flash backs of desperation when one of the main characters gets killed at the end is also very clichéd, and downright corny.The sad thing is that it has a promising, brutal, and surprising storyline. Certainly the title is deceiving because fortunately this is no porn flick in the disguise of an action film. The few love scenes are muted and generally in the name of 'duty' - to kill a man at his most vulnerable. If this concept and plot was coupled with good writers, directors and actors, (not to mention budget) it could potentially become the action film of the year or decade. It even has potential to spawn sequels or a series like 'La Femme Nikita' or 'Bond'.Instead the result is a definite 'B' Grade movie that I would recommend any discerning movie goer to avoid.