Year: 2008
Plot: "A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murder her fiance's sister, decidedly ruining her pending marriage and landing the poor girl in the most brutal women's prison. Here she decides to stop being a victim. She eventually escapes the prison and returns to the streets in order to make the thugs who ruined her life pay. By this time, Nami prefers to go by the name of Sasori (Scorpion)."
Apparently, this is a remake of Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion, but I haven't seen them. Generally I stay away from movies made in the 70's, but I might eventually watch those versions. I say might, because I did enjoy this remake, to a point. It is also based off the manga of the same name by Toru Shibohara.
I felt that the plot of this movie was really good. There was two little plot holes that I seen and was a little confused with the Hei Tai ending, but there weren't any major problems. I do have to say that the fight scenes got a little weird even for me. I mean usually I can ignore when the fights are fantastical, but parts of this one were just too much for me. That didn't necessarily take away from the movie too much though.
I did enjoy the character progression. Nami really did start off as this timid little thing. By the end of the movie, she is so drastically changed. Though, like I said, I am confused with the ending of Hei Tai. I am not quite sure what happened with him. Usually this is not hard for me, but I am really confused. >.<
Someone said that they thought everything happened because he was involved with the death of his sister and that he was a bad cop. That makes absolutely no sense though. From what is shown, he is a good guy, and had nothing to do with the deaths. The only part that he had with the thugs was going to a sort of therapy that the head person did for him. That doesn't make him involved with his sisters death though.
I must bring up something another person said in a review of this movie. They said that the movie was too much work to enjoy. This makes me think that they do not usually watch Asian movies, as they seem to feel this because they said it was hard to follow with the flashbacks. I am of course a big fan of Asian movies and found this one to be generally easy to follow and a fun watch, despite the few points that I mentioned.
This was a good movie despite a few flaws. This is one of those movies that if you go into it not expecting perfection, you might be rather surprised at the quality of it. I gave it leeway and found this movie to be quite good. n.n
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