Relatively coherent Godfrey Ho shlocktioner from the girls-with-guns era that gives Sharon Yeung (‘Princess Madam’) a leading role. She heads up a unit of four fighting female C.I.D. officers who are tasked with tracking down a gang of jewellery thieves who are working for a notorious crime syndicate headed by Ha Chi-Chun (‘Aces Go Places V’). Said thieves have an undercover cop in their midst who blows his cover, and the crime syndicate sends a pair of killers to take him out. Through various convolutions, one of Yeung’s C.I.D.s kills one of the assassins and the other killer (Dick Wei) thus sets out on a road of revenge, leading to all kinds of action craziness.
This is a pretty fast and furious pot boiler from the Ho wheelhouse that, while often nonsensical, benefits from Yeung in the lead role and a good dose of painful-looking action and stunts from the likes of Phillip Ko Fei and Ridley Tsui (who both also appear in various bit parts). While there are four enforcers on the angels’ team, only two of them get a look in, Yeung and Aan Lee, with Yeung doing most of the heavy lifting in the action. Ha Chi-Chun strikes an impression as the big bad boss but is unfortunately sidelined later on in favour of promoting Dick Wei (‘In the Line of Duty III’) to main bad guy duties. He proves to be a formidable force as he charges through the movie trying to take out the angels. His 1-on-3 fight in the finale features some painful takedowns but is unfortunately all over too quickly.
Thankfully, one is never too far away from a fight or shootout scene, but this being a Godfrey Ho picture means proceedings are saddled with a smattering of absurdness. There’s something about a haunted house hideout (!), a weird torture scene featuring American porn stars and Charlie Cho (!!), and some of the action scenes are scored to the ‘Halloween’ theme tune (!!!): not a rip-off version but the actual John Carpenter original score! The absurdness threatens to derail everything and, while proceedings are often junky, the likes of Yeung and Wei and a surfeit of decent action keep ‘Angel Enforcers’ bubbling along.
