Babes with Blades

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.

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.

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!

My quick rating - 3,9/10. For a really hockey b-budget flick, this one does have its moments. Mainly Azura (Cecilia Fay) who does have some pretty good martial arts skills it seems. The fight scenes do tend to show off her talent, unfortunately the story itself, or the acting doesn't lend to much more. Instead this movie turns into a woman being taken prisoner in a post-apocalyptic future world by the evil, and horribly acted....well, he doesn't have a name. There imprisoned, she must fight to the death for a bunch of rich types in an arena, which resembles the warehouse where one of the film makers must work to earn his daily pay. Still, a very valiant attempt using some creative special effects that were 80s quality. Kudos for the effort, just take Fay, and give her a real script and you might have something.

Low budget but one of the better low budget films in our opinion and we watch a lot of low budget films. It is choreographed pretty well, better than the movie"Battalion," and way better than "Viking Siege" & a whole lot better than "Killing of the sacred deer" was choreographed. A way better plot and acting than the other low budget movies I mentioned. We watch a lot of movies in general and it includes low budget as well as high budget movies. I review them for their acting, plot, how the lines were said with feeling behind them or where they like robotic with no acting when they said their lines. Did the lines sound natural or robotic to better explain it. This movie maybe low budget but doesn't sound like it is the acting is very good and not robotic like low budget movie "Killing of the sacred deer" was where they said their line but there was no feeling or real acting behind what they were saying so it wasn't natural looking what so ever. Low budget films can be just as good as the high budget films when reviewing them look at them for their acting, and plot mainly and if they were any good.