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.

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.

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.

There were babes and there were blades so it delivers on its title. I found the babes to be babely and the blades to be bladey. The acting is what you'd for a low budget film called Babes with Blades but the fight scenes were fun and I liked that it actually shows you the action unlike big budget productions that always do tight shots with quick shaky cuts so you can't tell the actors aren't actually doing any choreography.

It makes me wish stunt women like Zoe Bell or even Cecily Fay would be the new Captain Marvel or leading female superhero in the next big budget Marvel schlockfests so that at least the action scenes wouldn't have to be pure CGI and stunt performers, Anyway, if you're looking for a movie to have a few drinks to with your geeky friends than this movie will serve you with some silly fun and cool fight scenes while people cosplay.

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.