Nonureva Really Surprised!

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Dave from Ottawa Keeping straight Japanese girls-with-guns movies with titles like Beautiful Beast, Beautiful Prey and Beautiful Killing machine is no mean task - sort of like trying to keep straight the lesser Baldwin brothers - but unlike the Baldwins, most of these are pretty good. This one features Kaori Shimamura as Ran (aka The Black Orchid), an assassin for the Mob who feels little remorse in killing, since her job mostly involves snuffing rival mobsters. When the Mob targets someone half decent for a change, however, Ran's odd morality forces her to wipe them out on his behalf. The resulting sequence of well-staged shoot-'em-ups deliver enough ventilated cadavers for a whole season of Law and Order. Basically that's the plot. There aren't many surprises, but director Ikeda's trademark slick camera movement and wacky tilts give the exercise a lot of visual style (although his equally trademark shadowy urban landscapes sometimes make the action a bit hard to follow). Kaori looks good and gets topless a fair bit - always a worthy distraction - and the action moves along at a brisk pace. Overall, this is a professionally staged and shot and very slick looking piece of cinema. It's just not a very original one.

EVOL666 BEAUTIFUL BEAST is a pretty typical 90s era pinku-style film, relying more on action and gun-play than the sleazy story lines of this genre's predecessors. This film follows much the same template as Masaru Konuma's BEAUTIFUL HUNTER, though the story lines are different...Ran is a hit-woman who goes after a yakuza boss for the death of her sister. Along the way she befriends a bar-owner who turns out to be an ex-yakuza member. Things get hairy when the bar-owner has to choose between his loyalty to his old crew, or the hottie hit-woman...A few good gunfights, a relatively steamy (but over-long) bar-top sex-scene, a little bit of torture - pretty much the same ol' thing for this type of film - but I dig these films a lot, so that's not a bad thing. Nothing extra-noteworthy about this entry, though it's relatively entertaining. Not quite as good in my opinion as the aforementioned BEAUTIFUL HUNTER - but worth a look anyway...7/10

movieman_kev A hit-woman goes after the Japanese mafia with a mad-on after her sister is killed. This is a merely ok foreign action flick. Has a few sleazy moments meant to shock. But it doesn't tread any new ground, which is fine as it has a style of to it.My Grade:C-DVD extras: Trailers for Terminatrix, Sumo Vixens, Weather Woman, Blowback: Love and death, Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars; a (not very good) trivia game; & cast biosEye Candy: Kaori Shimamura as Ran (the Black Orchid), has a lengthy nude love scene early on. She's topless later on but in a far less erotic way.

pefo1921 This is a great movie!!! It deals with a serial killer; The suspense is quite good and does not follow the Hollywood convention so you don't know what to expect. Plenty of graphic well done sex scenes. Beware that there is also a graphic rape scene. Still a 9 out of 10.