Baby Walkure: Naisu Deizu

Chisato and Mahiro are back and that is not really a good thing. The first movie was quirky and fun about two sociopaths who work as assassins Albeit uneven it had some great ideas and scenes. Then the sequel came and lacked everything that made the first movie fun. After reading reviews for this one, i was optimistic, too optimistic actually. Although the bad guy Kaede is a cut above other antagonists in this franchise, it does not help this movie enough to be recommended. Chisato and Miharo are more annoying than usual and as these movies have been progressing you really start to wonder if not luck has been the main factor instead of skill that the girls have succeeded so far. Their fighting skills are not efficient nor effective, and their skills never improved either. Also the plot of the movie was really nonsensical to say the least. They start of to kill a target but during the movie try to save and keep the target alive, only to shoot him during the last five minutes of the movie.

I know there is also a series now, and will I watch it? No, i have learned my lesson.

This movie ups the stake of the previous ones in the franchise. Sometimes when a movie is bigger it doesn't necessarily make it better but in this case, it is better than the previous films. The fight scenes are great as usual. It might even be better than the previous movies. The choreography is very creative and the actors do a great job at making the fights look real and entertaining. Saori Izawa is an amazing stuntwoman, she really brings the physicality to the role. She can pull off like insane stunts. Akari Takaishi who plays Chisato also had a noticeable improvement in her martial arts and action scenes. I really love how they blend martial arts styles like boxing, BJJ and wrestling with like a bit of karate. There was a fight against an assassin who uses like animal kung fu or praying mantis style which I especially liked. Once again Saori and Akari's chemistry is good like in the previous films.

The introduction of Sosuke Ikematsu's character is the best thing this franchise has done. He plays an assassin who's just as deadly if not even more deadly than the girls. At first you really see that they have met their match and feel how big of a threat he is. Sosuke is an amazing actor and can do the fight choreography really well too. The other cast of characters like Riku and Iruka were good too. Iruka surprisingly had a good amount of character development. This movie is fast paced and never did I felt bored or that it really slowed down.