Tin si hang dung III: Moh lui mut yat

This rare title is very difficult to get hold off. I saw this almost 18 years ago on tape. "Iron Angels 3" belongs to the "Girls with Guns" genre. Typical HK action flicks in which women kick ass big time! Wonderful shootouts and excellent martial arts. Pay special attention to the scene in the train that obvious is a tribute to the famous fight scene in "From Russia with Love". But personally I liked this better because you have the pretty Moon Lee fighting this other beautiful(killer) woman. As with most of the movies in this genre the plot is simple and not very important. It is all about the action and which you get plenty off. "Iron Angels 3" is without a doubt one of the best titles that this genre has to offer! That's why it is very strange that they did not mass produced this on DVD. Warning: Do not confuse this movie with "Charlie's Angels". "Iron Angels 3" also consists of humor but the action scenes are definitely hardcore.

A third world terrorist group plan to put a stop to Thailand's rapid economic growth. Special agents The Angels are assigned to prevent them from doing so.

The premise for Iron Angels 3 is about as formulaic as it gets, but that doesn't deter director Stanley Tong from pulling out all the stops to entertain his audience, his film packed from start to finish with amazing fight scenes and incredible ballistic action.

The lovely Moon Lee returns as agent Moon, who goes undercover to get to a knife-wielding, croc-stroking villainess, while Alex Fong as Alex Fong (the film gets no prizes for original character names) immerses himself in the Muay Thai boxing scene, for reasons that I can't remember (not that it matters, this plot-line existing solely to allow for a hard-hitting match between Alex and a very tough opponent).

After loads of well choreographed and expertly executed martial arts scenes in which our heroes square up against countless bad guys, the film closes with a rollicking finale that sees Alex and comedy sidekick Kwai (Ralph Chen) take to the sky on jetpacks with mounted machine guns to mow down scores of henchmen, while Moon battles the villainess to the death.

Also adding to the fun is the silly Bond-style computer expert called-you guessed it-Computer (played by Mark Steinborn), whose high-tech gadgetry is hilarious (check out his impressive bank of diode-blinking computers and the silly mini-bomb detector), an African despot who harshly punishes his inept henchmen (and who goes unapprehended by the end of the film), plus quite a lot of bloodshed, including countless bullet squibs, a spurting knife wound, and a juicy gunshot to the head.

7.5/10, rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

The Iron Angels (Alex Fong, Moon Lee, Kharina Sa, Fong's new male partner, and another guy called "The Computer" - no sign of Elaine Lui this time) go to Thailand to stop some terrorists. That's pretty much all the plot you need for this one. For pure fighting fans, this is probably the best film in the series. Moon Lee has more fight scenes than in the previous films and looks pretty lethal: one of her best moves is when she jumps on a guy, wraps her legs around his waist, flips backwards, lands on top of him and punches him straight on his face! And Fong has an extended Muay Thai ring match against a local fighter. But shootout fans won't be disappointed, either; a gunfight near the end has an INCREDIBLE body count that easily rivals that of most war movies. The girls-with-guns factor is brought down a little by the absence of Elaine Lui, and the fact that Kharina Sa is given nothing to do, but goes up again with the addition of several female baddies, the leader of whom is a pretty muscular blonde. There are also notable Bond references: we get the female version of the Bond vs. Red Grant train fight in "From Russia With Love" as Moon Lee takes on a Japanese killer lady (who even has shoe-knives!), the blonde villainess pets (not a cat but) a baby croc, and at the end the heroes attack the terrorists on jetpacks like the one Connery used in "Thunderball" - only these are equipped with inexhaustible machine guns! (**1/2)

Well choreographed fighting is the only real highlight here, as the story is a pastiche of cliches. Worth a look if you're a hardcore fan of the genre, otherwise avoid.

I had higher expectations for this film after reading some of the good reviews, unfortunately it was a big letdown for me.

For those of you, like me, that like classic fu movies, you probably won't especially like this. I should have paid more attention to some of the other reviewers comments about "scenes taken from Bond movies" and "jetpacks with endless ammo machine guns".

Surprising to me, this movie has a higher rating than Lady Whirlwind and other female lead role fu films. I would rather watch The Lady Constables...

I would give this 3 stars just for making it all the way through. Then again... I doubt I would ever watch it again. I found it boring.