Pearl: The Assassin

I thought this was a good indie action movie with a kick ass female lead character. It's nice to see a female lead that doesn't just distract enemies with sex, and it didn't center on a love story just because the lead was a female. The comic relief sidekick was great. It helped lighten up a dark and murder-filled plot. I think considering this was a no budget movie they did a better job than most Hollywood action movies at actually telling a story. | It was nice to see diversity in the main characters too- a female, a senior citizen, Asian, African-Americans... Also enjoyed recognizing all the NY/NJ area locations.

The absolute worst acting, camera work and screenplay I have seen for 20+ years, for this to be released in this day and age is an atrocity.....how this gets anything above 1 star is well beyond me...when you have watched things like 'along came a spider' and the likes, this should have been much, much better to get any audience, assuming the budget was $5.....it really was that bad.... There seems to be a good idea in the story, a female assassin with a ruthless need to avenge her fathers death, and the cinematography (if that's the word) ruins it all by having the need to make the fight scenes so fake, similar to mainstream wrestling, the punches miss by inches, the cut/blood scenes are clearly just powdered makeup, the music is terrible, the police are useless, I am really speechless on this one...