Chek law dak gung (2002)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Siu-Tung Ching

Writer:

Jing Wong (writer)

Release Date:

15 November 2002 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller

Tagline:

They will seduce you - just before they kill you!

Plot:

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote island to train them as the most deadly assassins...

Plot Keywords:

CIA | Hong Kong | Assassin | Assassination | Gunfight

Cast

Marit Thoresen	...	Fiona Birch
Almen Wong Pui-Ha	...	Madam M (as Almen Wong)
Daniel Wu	...	Jack Chen
Natalie Kyoko Waters	...	Little Katherine (as Kai Yan Kwok)
Renee Nichole Rommeswinkel	...	Young Charlene Ching
Chia-li Mo	...	Little Jing (as Mo Ka Lai)
Augustin Aguerreberry	...	Drillmaster
Maggie Q	...	Charlene Ching
Anya	...	Katherine
Jewel Lee	...	Jing
Monica Lo	...	Student murdered in Cage
Benny Lai	...	Tattooed Yakuza Boss
Pei-pei Cheng	...	Faye Ching
Dennis Chan	...	Mr. Chan
Andrew Lin	...	Ryuichi

Also Known As:

Naked Weapon (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
Chi luo te gong (China: Mandarin title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, some sexuality and drug use.

Runtime:

92 min | USA:90 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

English | Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG | Finland:K-18 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Singapore:PG (cut) | Philippines:R-18 | South Korea:15 | Australia:R | Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) | Hong Kong:IIB | Japan:PG-12 | New Zealand:R18 | UK:18 | USA:R

Company:

Media Asia Films

Trivia:

Mark Aldred, who played the Russian crime boss (uncredited) was fired from his job as an English teacher in a Hong Kong primary school because the principal had discovered his role in this film. After a lengthy hearing, an industrial tribunal awarded Aldred HK$11,600 as a contract gratuity. However, it threw out his claim for around $79,000 in damages and dismissed Aldred's claims that his sacking was unlawful.

Goofs:

Continuity: Charlene and Jack are kissing by the water and Charlene is pulling her shirt up. You can clearly see that she is wearing a bra (also later you can see her bra through the wet shirt). But when she finally does take the shirt all off, she isn't wearing a bra anymore.

Movie Connections:

References Dip huet seung hung (1989)

Spine Tingling

The title of this English-language, Hong Kong action flick, "Naked Weapon" (2002), may be a tad misleading. Though most of the gals in question here are undoubtedly quite dangerous customers, they nevertheless remain discreetly clothed, at least most of the time. The film, handsomely produced and directed with style to spare by Tony Ching Siu Tung, tells the story of Charlene, Katt and Jing, three kidnapped teenage girls who are the last survivors out of 40 at Madame M's six-year, private-island school for assassins. As a reward for their six years of grueling training, the girls are drugged, raped and sent out into the world to perform various hits for the good Madame, all the while being tracked by a dogged, Asian CIA agent. The film, I must say, though no John Woo thriller, does deliver the requisite goods. Thus, there are numerous over-the-top action sequences, many of them featuring spectacular swordsmanship, remarkable gunplay, and the antigravitic, bullet-timed martial-arts acrobatics that will be familiar to "Matrix" and "Crouching Tiger" fans. The film's two main characters, Charlene and Katt--played, respectively, by Maggie Q (a relative of Suzie?) and Anya--are both extremely attractive performers, and for the most part are fairly credible in their action scenes. The sisterly relationship between the two gives the film its heart; fellow captives at first, they grow to truly care for each other as they enter womanhood. The picture is constantly throwing unexpected twists at the viewer--the free-for-all melee in the barracks that Madame M (deliciously played by Almen Wong) demands, for example, is one that I surely never saw coming. So yeah, the whole flick is something of a gas. Those who have already seen it will perhaps understand me when I say that the picture's net effect is quite, uh, spine tingling...