Babes with Blades

I really loved the martial art choreography. Cecily, according to the birthdate was 41 when she made this movie, she directed, produced, and I guess wrote it. I found it mesmerizing although some of the lines were a bit corny. Cecily, Great job!

Where to start.

OK - so - I wasn't expecting too much of this film apart from being watchable - but it wasn't even that.

Just about every aspect of this is AWFUL! I appreciate there wasn't much of a budget, but that is no excuse for the lack of attention to detail or making good use of what you do have. The lighting was awful (which was obviously there because it seems the concept of diffusing light to create atmosphere had gone over the head of the production team) as was the rest of the technical side.

This film has the atmosphere of a bad 1980s VHS corporate training video.

Then there is the 'action'. Bad. It has more in common with watching kids in a play ground than a professionally choreographed stunt team and the camera angles certainly didn't help.

It is like NO thought has gone in to producing something that is actually watchable - let alone engaging for the viewer.

All in all one to watch unless you are in the mood for some seriously bad cheese.

This film has decent simple fight and keeps you watching them. The score/sound is to loud during dialogue all throughout the movie. This apocalyptic movie is to clean for its genre and the actors are both good and bad. You make the call but you will see. The camera work is a lot of handheld, which makes the movie not enjoyable to watch. Especially during simple steady shots and the editting should of used longer shots etc. The main character is good at the her physical parts and the story is not original and no major feeling of caring about the characters. This would be great back in the 80s, but with todays technology and advances in independent films. It is a good effort. With a better backstory and plot the movie would have been better and longer.

I like this movie. For once they show strong women warriors without all the T & A. It kind of reads like a graphic novel. Has some gore (come on, what's a sword fight without blood?), bit nothing too gross. If you like strong women and swords, you will like this movie.

The title "Babes with Blades" is obviously movie "clickbait", but I hoped for at least some fun, but cheesy action scenes and some strong, beautiful women wielding swords. There were women, though I'd only count one of them as beautiful (The striking Yennis Cheung). And only one or two more as attractive. The lead actress, Cecily Fay, had a few good moves, but nothing particularly interesting. The fact that she is apparently a fight coordinator and stunt actor is pretty surprising considering how uninspired and dull the fight scenes are. The script was worse than I expected, but again not surprising once I realized that the Fay wrote it as well as directed. All in all it seems like a vanity project that she somehow managed to rope other people into with promises of beer money I assume. Only giving it a "2" because the absolutely outrageous overacting of the character "Sef" had me rolling. Even watching it "free" on Amazon Prime I felt robbed. Do yourself a favor and stay far away.