Customer Reviews:
"Hard-hitting violence... and soft curves".......2004-04-21
*AHEM*
Anyhoo... throw in a few low-rent James Bond-type espionage devices, a horde of bikini-clad felon babes (many of whom get naked on a few occasions) led by an annoying old hag of a gold smuggler & her henpecked gym rat of a husband, the usual "wocka-wocka-wocka-wocka" and semi-jazzy trumpety soundtrack that all 70s action flicks have, and just plain awful acting all around, and you've got yerself some pretty tasty cheese to go with your popcorn on movie night at your place!
One thing I found really annoyin' about this flick: Rhino did a horrible job of reformatting "Policewomen" from widescreen to pan-and-scan. For example: on several occasions a speaking subject who I imagine was on the outer edge of camera range in the original widescreen release has been cropped out of the p&s release. So you get to hear the subject talk, but you don't actually see him/her, or maybe just a part of him/her. Also a problem were a few action scenes that didn't look quite right in the p&s format. `Course, it could be argued that most of the action sequences were so fake-looking and dumb that the cropping of the stuff to the left and/or right could be seen as an improvement...
BTW if you're too busy and/or lazy to watch the entire movie, the theatrical trailer that's included as an extra on this platter pretty much gives ya the whole shebang in a nutshell...
`Late
Policewomen.......2004-03-23
Girl karate cop against the" female mafia".......2003-10-14
Where else can you see an all girl bikini crime gang?.......2003-09-23
The movie starts out in a what appears to be a police station, but then is also a woman's prison...go figure. Lacy is a cop, or a guard, and she's instrumental in stopping a planned escape by a number of inmates. Two manage to get away, but Lacy's efforts do not go unnoticed by her superiors. They pick her for an undercover mission to infiltrate a gang of women that have been committing crimes.
Before her mission starts, they put her through some training exercises, where the misogynist male cops laugh and guffaw at her, because she's just a woman, and she continually makes them look like jerks when she excels in these exercises. The scene with William Smith, who plays a police martial arts expert, is not too bad, except maybe the end. The martial arts work and stunts are marginally better than you might expect, and some of the fight scenes, especially between the women are downright brutal looking.
Anyway, Lacy manages to infiltrate the gang, which is run by a fairly whithered and crotchety old woman who I believe was called Ma. Now Ma has a young boy toy (ewwwwwwwww) who also doubles as her bodyguard. (I made the ewwwww noise as I just remembered a scene where the muscled boy toy made sexual advances towards his sugar mama and she subsequently turned him down because she had a 'headache', for which I was eternally thankful, but it just the thought of the two of them made me shudder.)
After learning about their operation, Lacy is recognized by another gang member as a cop, but she manages to shut that woman up, if you know what I mean. Also, we learn another female member of the gang is an undercover FBI agent. This may account for the plural form of woman used in the title, as it didn't seem to make sense, as there was only one policewoman up until that point. Or maybe the title Policewoman had already been used...who knows.
So now both law enforcement undercover agents have been exposed, and are now being used as hostages while Ma and her gang perform their big score, involving a shipment of gold or something or other...the plot got a little messy after awhile, but this leads to a big final confrontation at the end of the movie.
Not a bad movie for what it's worth, and there are copious bits of nudity in a few scenes. Sondra Currie is, or at least was, very easy on the eyes. The movie is in a full screen format, and little or no extras, except maybe a trailer. If schlocky 70's movies are your bag, then this is right up your alley. If cinematic verite' is your cup of tea, avoid this movie.
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