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Year:    2002
Studio:  Media Asia Films
Movie:   3/5
DVD:     2/5

Naked Weapon is an action film about a young girl who is kidnapped and trained to be an international assassin. Charlene (Maggie Q) and other girls are taken by Madam M (Almen Wong). She trains them brutally for 6 years and only three of the girls survive: Charlene, her friend Kat (Anya) and the ruthless Jing (Jewel Lee). Upon graduation the three are loosed into the world to do contract killings.

Meanwhile CIA Agent Jack Chen (Daniel Wu) has been after Madam M for the last six years. When word gets out that the "China Dolls" have returned he is back on the case, with or without CIA support. Jack meets Maggie and falls for her. But Maggie has a last job to free her friend Kat from a criminal boss out to take revenge on Madam M and her assassins.

It was an ok movie. The martial are a bit too stylized. There is quite a bit of CGI effects to take the place of good martial arts action. About half of the movie is training and the challenges the girls face. Overall it's a sexy film done in English with action that relies a bit too much on CGI effects.
Extras

A 25-minute Making Of which has no subtitles. Luckily most of the talking was done by the English-speaking actors Q, Wu, and Anya.

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