Triple Cross

Set in the exotic locale of sun-hazed Indonesia, thunder-footed, Kung Fu femme fatale, Cynthia Rothrock is ace security specialist, Nancy Bolan, tasked to covertly deliver a valuable new computer, which fatefully proves to be an exceedingly tricky endeavour that tests, Nancy's uncommonly fierce arsenal of mesmerising martial artistry! The no frills, plentiful bloody spills text is by B-Movie tough guy, Christopher Mitchum, the explosive action briskly directed by cult Indonesian filmmaker, Ackyl Anwari, the delicious maniac behind 'Virgins from Hell' (1987). Cynthia Rothrock's enjoyably kinetic Triple Cross is one of the more thrillingly incendiary fight flicks in her grossly undervalued 90s ouvre!

Following a disorientatingly grim torture sequence, the adrenalized action begins in blazing earnest with the triumphantly Thug Trashing, Nancy being aggressively pursued by sweaty multitudes of eminently thrashable szeezoids, thereby forcing our high-kicking heroine to unleash a dazzling array of Brutal beatdowns! Anwari remorselessly puts our super-ambulatory heroine through her athletic paces in his non-stop rollercoaster barrage of backstabbing lunacy, high velocity boat chases, crazed inner city bike pursuits, martial arts mayhem and savage Gun-Fu insanity! 'Triple Cross' remains a real 'blink and you'll miss a hundred punches' action extravaganza that will put your disbelieving eyes in traction, baby!

The frequently outlandish music by composer, Larry Wolf manifests some seriously skewed sonic weirdness which merely sweetens the unbound delirium of Martial Arts madness herein, plus Anwari's frontal lobe-pulverising actioner 'Triple Cross' features one of the more memorable B-Movie lunatics in the deliriously demented guise of, 'Bolt', performed with bravura bellicosity by the miraculously unrestrained Thespian, Peter 'The Stabilizer' O'Brian, and the ubiquitously blood-spattered warehouse showdown energetically provides a spectacularly skull-shattering showcase for the inimitable, unshakable, righteously roundhouse-rocking Rothrock!

This is an early Rothrock feature that got chopped down and bit and released by Imperial to capitalize on her rising popularity in the US in the early 90s. One thing you can't complain about is the film being slowly paced. It is literally action scene after action scene with a few quick dialogue scenes thrown in for good measure. Rothrock, looking mighty fine, gets into tons of scuffles with the locals while trying to protect three cases carrying computers. While this isn't at the level of her Hong Kong work, the fights are fun and people do take some bumps. Fans of the cult films THE STABILIZER and THE INTRUDER (aka RAMBU) will notice star Peter O'Brian as the lead villain here.

ANGEL OF FURY is a typically hilarious Indonesian action gem which really does have to be seen to be believed - and which is another example of so-bad-it's-good entertainment. It's not quite up there on the level of THE INTRUDER but it does have that film's Peter O'Brian, this time as the musclebound bad guy and torturer. Shoehorned into the mayhem is a short-haired Cynthia Rothrock, who shows up to kick backside in the film's numerous, entirely OTT action set-pieces. Oh, and the most bizarre thing in a film filled with weirdness is that Christopher Mitchum wrote the screenplay. Does it make sense? Not a bit of it!

Cynthia plays Nancy Bolan, the head of security for a tech company, who is charged with delivering a special computer to the company's Indonesian offices. No soon has she arrived than she is attacked, and the computer stolen. But that's okay, because it turns out there are actually three computers, two of them decoys, and they have a large explosive payload which goes off if someone tries to access them without the deactivation code. They are being sought by 'Bolt' (O'Brian), a terrorist ...

The low budget is quite visible, there's plenty of characters with moustaches that it can be confusing and the script looks like it was written in a hour, however it's fast-paced with a fair share of action - namely Cynthia Rothrock doing what she does best. She shows some charm, too. You got a nasty villain in tow. It can be a bit violent. But it's passable entertainment, especially when seeing Cynthia dispatching the thugs with ease.

Yes this movie had a lot of action, it is almost non-stop. But there are problems with the movie itself, too many plot twists being one of them. It is also poorly lit especially at the beginning, and it is so grainy sometimes it's hard to tell what is going on, it is a poor video tape transfer, you are probably better off watching it on VHS if you still have those. As I said ti does have a lot of action, plenty of martial arts fights and even guns, but no gun fu. I think this is one of Cynthia Rothrocks earlier efforts. It certainly provides entertainment, and is not intellectually challenging, just confusing.