Angel Films (aka 'Iron Angels', 'Midnite Angels', 'Angel Terminators' etc.)

[Ronin]

Found this on the label's (Spectrum Films) facebook page:

HK's next films are, still in Blu-Ray / DVD Combo:
Story of wot viet with bonus only on Blu-Ray Boat people
Cops and Robbers
The Saviour
The Dragon Fighter
Devil Hunters
The Beasts

[Drunken Monk]

Spectrum Films had this to say about Angel Terminators 1 & 2 on Facebook...

Cantonese yes but no english sub. It’s a question of rights. Sorry! But next January we’ll release a boxset of 5 films of Khavn from Philippines with English sub.

[Rodolphe Dux]

I wanna buy the remastered edition of Cops and Robbers released this week by Alex Cheung but it’s very expensive. Did anyone bought that version? Is it worth it?

Edited May 5, 2019 by Rodolphe Dux

[spannick]

my Cops & Robber is on order, but not shipped yet..

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

Working on a few, like Super Lady Cop, Widow Warriors, Beauty Investigators, Crystal Hunt and some others. People luv girls with guns. Meanwhile I scour the web for Cathay stuff in the meantime.

 

[Daxtreme]

Devil Hunters will be 1080p french audio & subs only

I'll see if I can work on a custom for it

[One Armed Boxer]

I recently clocked in with a review for 'Killer Angels', which is definitely one of the superior 'Angel' knock-off flicks out there!  Check it out below - 

http://cityonfire.com/killer-angels-1989-review/

[Cognoscente]

I think I've found the source of the rumour about Woo being a guest director for Killer Angels.
 

 

[DrNgor]

Okay, just posted a review of Angel, which got some attention in my Alternate Best Action Choreography Poll. This has been a favorite of mine since the late 90s.

https://abeautifulfilm.blogspot.com/2023/04/angel-1987.html

[DrNgor]

Finishing the trilogy with a review of Angel II (I'd already reviewed the third film for an old Mutual Review thread):

https://abeautifulfilm.blogspot.com/2023/04/angel-ii-1988.html

[Gaijin84]

On 5/6/2019 at 1:58 AM, NoKUNGFUforYU said:

Working on a few, like Super Lady Cop, Widow Warriors, Beauty Investigators, Crystal Hunt and some others. People luv girls with guns. Meanwhile I scour the web for Cathay stuff in the meantime.

 

Don't mean to hijack this thread, but how far did you get with Widow Warriors? I know there was a recent HDTV broadcast of it but in Mandarin with Chinese subs only. Then there was the old fullscreen release in Cantonese with English subs. I've seen requests for a combination of the existing materials into a superior release, but have no idea how realistic that is?

[NoKUNGFUforYU]

All done with Widow Warriors. Subbed HD. PM me.

[DrNgor]

Angel Enforcers (Hong Kong, 1989: Godfrey Ho) - Godfrey Ho may be a director of questionable talents and ethics, but his GWG films are certainly something else. Lethal Panther is borderline porno, while Princess Madam goes on an unexpected Fatal Attraction tangent before taking a few dark twists in the last 20 minutes. Angel Enforcers is a bit more conventional, but it also has a few twists and dark turns of its own.

There is a team of 4 female C.I.D. officers that include Maryanne (Aan Lee) and Yvonne (Sharon Yeung Pan-Pan). We meet them as they're busting a drug deal on the docks. Their next job is to bust a bunch of jewelry thieves (including Ridley Tsui), one of whom is an undercover cop. The thieves are in league with a criminal organization run by Mr. Big (actually a woman, played by Ha Chi-Chun, of Aces Go Places V and Widow Warriors). The cop blows his cover before he can find out her identity, and she sends a pair of assassins known as the Lethal Weapons (Phillip Ko Fei and Dick Wei) to ice him. Phillip Ko manages to kill the cop, but is shot down by Maryanne. Dick Wei vows revenge...

Nobody has plot armor in this film, and that's what keeps you on your toes. Moreover, I don't know if it's bad writing or savvy directing, but by the third act, the main antagonist is pushed into secondary bad guy status while the secondary villain (Dick Wei) becomes the main villain. Even stranger is how unceremoniously the former is whacked during the climax. That said, the action occurs at a regular pace; you're never more than 10 minutes away from the next set piece. The action varies from fighting to shoot-outs to foot chases to stalk-and-kills. The fights tend to be a little bit short, including the finale 3-on-1 against Dick Wei, who's an absolute monster in this movie. He steals the show. There are better GWG films out there, but this one is fun way to waste an hour and a half.

Strangest scene: a Gwailo girl spends several minutes topless trying to seduce Charlie Cho (the slimey lawyer in Police Story) into renewing a lease for Mr. Big's nightclub. When he refuses, she handcuffs him to the railing of his yacht and sends a pair of American gay porno actors to rape him.

[ShaOW!linDude]

Hey, I watched that on Tubi last month titled as Iron Angels.

[DrNgor]

Reposted the capsule reviews of Angel Enforcers and Princess Madam to my site:

https://abeautifulfilm.blogspot.com/2023/05/two-capsule-reviews-of-godfrey-ho.html