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Someone is flooding Asia with forged money to break the power of the
ASEAN countries. Interpol turns to top agent Cleopatra Wong (Marrie Lee)
to investigate, and to that end gives her a whole briefcase of the forged
money to spend on whatever she wants it to spend on, just to lead the
forgers onto her trail. And soon enough she finds herself in the middle of
an endless series of fights with the baddies and on the trail of ...
strawberry jam - which is the baddies' preferred hiding place for the
funny money. Her investigations lead Cleopatra through quite a number of
Asian countries until she tracks the jam down to a convent on the
Philippines where all the nuns were replaced by gunmen and gunwomen (still
wearing nun habits). So Cleopatra gathers a gang of cutthroats, and armed
to the teeth they mow down the baddies by the dozen. Cleo even gets to
ride a motorcycle armed with machine guns. And when the main baddie wants
to get away in a helicopter, she shoots the thing out of the air using bow
and arrow. And one of the final shots shows the actual nuns returning to
their convent stepping over the corpses of the baddies. Cleopatra
Wong is by no means a film that's strong on story, it's just a
straightforward action tale that is low on twists and turns even when
compared to similar genre fare - and that's pretty much the charm of the
movie, that it's so unapologetic about being little more than a succession
of action scenes, and that it totally lacks any pretentions. Basically,
it's just what it is, a sexy woman who sometimes wears a nun's habit (not
as often as the posters make you think though) who uses martial arts and
blazing guns to fight, defeat and kill her opponents. The endresult is
hardly refined, just your typical low budget grindhouse flick of course
that has "made in the Philippines" written all over it (which is
not necessarily a bad thing), but even if on the surface it's little more
than your run-of-the-mill genre film, you might actually like it.
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