Cantonese: Tin si dak ging
Mandarin: Tian shi te jing
English: Angel Special Cop

The Girls-With-Guns sub-genre (personified by ANGEL, its two sequels, and numerous ripoffs) was a mainstay of HK cinema in the late 80s and early 90s, and finding these films on videocassette or laserdisc rarely presented much of a problem. However, only a few of them made it to VCD and even less have appeared on DVD thus far, making an average effort like ANGEL FORCE seem more noteworthy than it really is. However, after a slow start (with some painful attempts at character development), this modestly budgeted effort delivers more than its fair share of RAMBO-style jungle combat, a la ANGEL II. After being mired for some time with tedious surveillance duty, martially skilled police officers May (cult favorite Moon Lee Choi-fung) and Lung (Wilson Lam Chun-yin) are assigned by their department to create a special task force for a clandestine mission in Burma. Their objective is to rescue an important hostage being held by a vicious renegade general (Shaw Brothers perennial Johnny Wang Lung-wei), who has a sizeable, well-equipped army under his command. When Lung is badly wounded by a would-be assassin (Nadeki Fujimi), May takes over as leader, guiding her troops into the proverbial "heart of darkness." However, the general is not the only enemy she has to worry about.

Directed in capable but mostly uninteresting fashion by Wah San (best known in the west for his wild sci-fi thriller, SUPER INFRA-MAN, released in America by Joseph Brenner as simply INFRA-MAN), ANGEL FORCE offers up only the most rudimentary genre elements but is busy enough to hold one's interest during the battle-heavy second half (choreographed by Yuen Bun). Hugo Ng Toi-yung (image) gets the best role as Benny (or "Little Vietnam" as he is called on subtitled prints), the requisite disturbed vet, who comes up with an inventive variation on the oft-imitated "shoot the hostage" bit from THE BIG HEAT. Moon Lee evidently made this right after finishing THE NOCTURNAL DEMON (also 1990), as she sports much the same silly haircut her character had in that film. A large portion of the soundtrack consists of cues swiped from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE. Lung Fong (aka Jimmy Lee), Shing Fui-on, and Lam Chung also appear.

World #WVDVD-595 (U.S. label) Dolby Digital 2.0 Cantonese, Mandarin, and English Language Tracks (all post-synced) 8 Chapters Illustrated in the Menu With Grabs Fullscreen (cropped from 1.85:1) Coded for ALL Regions NTSC Format 87 Minutes Contains brutal violence, brief sexual violence, nudity, and coarse language

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ANGEL FORCE is available at Poker Industries.