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It's been too long since I have watched Terminator Woman until today. I am kinda feeling little sorry for myself (I've been given a few days off from work) because I fractured my wrist in sparring while doing martial arts the other night but this little gem managed to keep me entertained as I'm waiting for the pain killers to kick in.

I have a feeling the previous reviewers who had bad things to say about this movie don't like other films of this genre...I love them.

In Terminator Woman we have plenty of martial arts action. Jerry Trimble Jr and Karen Sheperd make an awesome team together. I give this 10 out of 10 because the movie involves many great fight scenes, yes the acting is really bad but if you are like me and can watch a movie for the fun side of it, then I am sure you can enjoy this nice little martial arts gem from the good old day as long as you don't take the movie too seriously.

One scene demonstrates the mentality of "Terminator Woman" pretty well: Karen Sheperd and another woman are trying to escape from the villain's camp. Karen runs across an armed guard, who points his gun at her, but after a few seconds throws it away and challenges her to a fight. Karen kicks him in the balls, picks up the gun and runs away! Then again, when a film is directed by a martial artist and written / produced by another member of his family, you know you shouldn't expect too much. Karen Sheperd and Jerry Trimble do get some amusing banter going early on, and the film might have turned out better if it had focused more on their love-hate relationship. But after about 20 minutes they get separated, and the film slows to a crawl, and even with the occasional fight scene to liven things up, it lacks excitement. The finale has Trimble fighting Qissi inside a cave and Sheperd going womano-a-womano against the beautiful Ashley Hayden on a speedboat, but the fights are intercut in a way that breaks their flow and diminishes their value. On the positive side, kudos to the costuming department for giving Karen the chance to show spectacular cleavage throughout the film! (*1/2)

Up until the somewhat under-heralded release of low-budget Karen Sheperd-starring chop-schlocky sensation 'Terminator Woman', brooding, broad-shouldered, B-movie villain par excellence Michel Qissi was better known as the towering, pony-tailed tibia-thrashing Muay Thai champion Tong Po, and the charismatically evil Qissi creates another memorable martial arts maniac in the scar-faced guise of merciless mobster Alex Gatelee, a wealthy, wholly corrupt businessman whose myriad larcenies include gold smuggling and human trafficking. Now desperate to retrieve his stolen gold bullion Gatelee kidnaps Julie (Karen Sheperd) one of the tough Kung Fu-fantastic cops hot on his trail, a crude gambit which proves injudicious as Julie is infinitely more resourceful than Gatelee's lumpen thugs, and her equally determined, punch-happy partner Jay (Jerry Trimble) being no less resolute! Atmospherically set in a dusty, sun-hazed African locale, the talented polymath Qissi equips himself remarkably well as actor/director/fight-coordinator, and while the script is rarely better than prosaic, the suitably gruff-voiced Trimble & sinuous Sheperd are likeable, boisterously bantering, head-knocking,high-kicking heroes, both clearly capable screen-fighters, and Qissi maintains good energy throughout, orchestrating an edifying number of kinetic fight scenes, Gung ho gun battles and a suitably blood-thirsty climax, wherein agile karate cops Karen Sheperd and Jerry Trimble really get to strut their red-hot pugilistic stuff, and capable composer Bruce Cassidy's bouncy score adds some additional pep to the fabulous fist-fighting ferocity! Fans of PM Entertainment, 90s-era Steven Seagal and Andy Sidaris should certainly make the effort to seek lost 90s action gem 'Terminator Woman' out.

'Legendary 'Kick Boxer' icon Michel Qissi's chop-schlocky skull-smasher 'Terminator Woman' is a triumphantly trashy, bone-crunchingly blissful B-Movie delight!' - Tor Bronson / 'The Heroic Blood Shed'

'Head-turningly hard-bodied, head-knocking, karate-kicking cooze Karen Sheperd can whoop my pizza dough-soft, bad movie-watching ass ANY day of the week!' - Goosey Lucy / Buxom Bloodfiends.

Not a bad martial arts film. Fight scenes were good. Michel Qissi did a good job directing his first film without Van Damme. Story worked without foul language and too much blood. Screenwriter Jeanette Francessca has a good line to the story that works. IT would be great to see something else from her in the same genre. She likes the art and having strong women promenant. IT was definitely worth watching. I recommend the film to all drama and martial arts lovers.

Did not know what to expect from from Van Damme's partner & friend /trainer/and his fight choreographer for most of his films. It was nice to see him act as "TONG PO" in "Kickboxer and other Van Damme's films. Now he's on his own. He and his wife make a great team. In this one Qissi is the action director and lead bad guy and he's good. Really meanacing. His wife was the writer, producer and directed most of the scenes which didn't require action. She also did good job editing the film. Together they did a great job. The story made sense, the fight scenes were edited well, the leads were real fighters and looked good together - the story came together well, and if you can beleive it...no bad language, no sex, just action. A new one on me. Check it out!!!