An all-woman gang of thieves are cornered by some Nazi villains in an abandoned farmhouse. They decide to stash the gold they’ve stolen and split up, vowing to meet up in a year’s time and divvy up their shares then. Double-crosses, hacked-off limbs, and lots of shootouts and swordplay ensues.
Pink Force Commando was produced by Joseph Lai, and it is one of the stranger films he ever made. Even though it was directed by Fantasy Mission Force’s Chu Yen-Ping, it very much feels like a Godfrey Ho flick. Whereas Ho would take two different movies and splice them together, it feels like Yen-Ping stitched together half a dozen into a patchwork quilt of WTF weirdness.
Some may enjoy the complete lack of sense and blatant disregard for logic. Others will marvel at the audacity of having cowgirls, one-armed swordswomen, and superheroes standing side by side and doing battle with Nazis, Klansmen, and bikers while Spaghetti Western music blares out on the soundtrack. While it is admittedly fun for a little while, the film frequently flies off in so many different directions at once that it never settles into a rhythm. It at all times feels like a shit-ton of movies thrown into a blender and spat back out incoherently rather than a unique, madcap, and original work of martial arts cinema.
I can’t fault the cast. The ladies, especially The Bride with White Hair’s Brigitte Lin (whose character has more lives than a cat) and The Killer’s Sally Yeh dig in their heels and embrace their crazy characters. I just wish they were working with a script that had at least one foot in some semblance of reality. I mean I’m just as surprised as you that a movie where Brigitte Lin gets a machine gun for a hand somehow manages to be something of a chore to get through.
AKA: Pink Force Commandos. AKA: Ninja Fighters. AKA: Pink Force.
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