Lady Bloodfight (2016)

Such a frustrating disappointment

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.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I have seen many movie about deadly martial arts tournament before but Lady Bloodfight is the first one with only female participation but not oversexualized the female body like 2006 DOA and you can clearly see the fight scene cause each actor really put themselves out there and give us a bloody fun time.A welcome return of director Chris Nahon after 7 years and the new badass action star Amy Johnston

Sorry feminists but here ya go. This has an all female leading cast and attractive girls beating each other up the lead is now a successful stunt woman fun to watch while wasted. There are many conversations between two or even 6 women that have nothing to do with a man, and then they kungfu fight each other. It's certainly not an A list Hollywood production but if you like seeing lots of cute girls beat each other up in a non anime/fantasy scenario give it a watch.

The film opens with two women fighting in the Kumite (Ku-ma-ta) in Hong Kong to a draw. One is in black and the other in white showing off some simple Yin-Yang. The woman in black refuses to split the prize so the two fighters are to train someone for the 435th event five years later. We see various street tough girls around the world get invitations and then we see Jane (Amy Johnston) a PBR drinking waitress harassed by rude customers. Who else in the world is tougher? She leaves her waitress job and takes her skills to Hong Kong to compete. Okay, she has some formal training and an ulterior motive which we discover later as an attempt to create a plot outside of women beating each other up. After all, who wants to just watch cat fights? In Hong Kong we see the woman in black train the Hong Kong version of Harley Quinn (Muriel Hofmann). Jane, our Barbie doll, trains with the woman in white, who she once refers to as Mrs. Miyagi. Yes there are gross similarities to "The Karate Kid." The training period which makes up so many fight films showing unorthodox training techniques that figure in later on, was relatively brief .The film has some ties to real life. In the film Jane was trained by her father, Amy was trained by her father David Johnston. Amy was also a stunt double in "Suicide Squad" and is Scarlett Johansson's stunt double.Mayling Ng, martial arts fighter and bikini contestant is also in the film. There are a lot of hard bodies in locker room scenes in various stages of dress. Blood and killing.Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

With Elisha Cuthbert looks, mediocre acting abilities and fair martial arts skills Amy Johnston does the best with what little was handed to her. The plot was a terrible rehash. The characters' motivations were laughable. The fight scenes were good to tragic. When a fighter is taught to always'finish' the attack why do they stand there like big time wrestlers. Why must the heroine always have to make a miraculous comeback after terrific beatings? When told "I killed your father" the reaction is, "Now I can avenge my father by winning the Kumite"... Seriously? Better editing of the fight scenes was needed, a writer was needed, a decent story line was needed... but they had a discount on blood capsules. It had potential but Amy, they let you down.