kimberlymhn Director Lindsay Shonteff apparently saw himself as neglected genius frozen out by the film establishment on both sides of the Atlantic, but on the basis of Big Zapper, they were right! It is simply awful in every department - bad acting, a terrible script, shoddy action and lame attempts at 'humour'. The only thing good about this movie is Shonteff gives the female lead all the action, unlike so many action heroines who are relegated to second fiddle behind a male star. Unfortunately, Linda Marlowe, who must have been cast because a slight facial resemblance to the wonderful Diana Rigg is thoroughly unconvincing as a screen fighter. Then again, the likes of Pam Grier or Reiko Ike would probably look just as bad being directed by Shonteff.The action scenes are simply absurd, with pride of place going to a scene near the end of the movie. Confronted by about ten guys, she somersaults through the air landing behind a handy heavy machine gun and shoots them down like ninepins! As a fan of female action cinema, this one was a huge disappointment. looking at the late Mr Shonteff's website it seems there was a sequel made which features the respected actor Alan Lake as a villain. It's a measure of how low things had got in the British film industry that he was forced to act in stuff like this.

Justin Powers As the female version of Dirty Harry and one of the most vicious comic book adaptations Big Zapper is a cult favorite that lives on! After Sin City it has become even more acceptable and one can see that it was just ahead of it's time! It's an unbelievable mixture of surreal sex scenes and nasty slap stick violence and the cynical attitude of the main character is absolutely unbelievable! Plus the way the goofs are saved by the voice over like "I had time just to change my clothes" when Zapper's outfit is changed in the middle the scene! Absolutely great work!

John Seal This feeble private eye 'spoof' features a catatonic Linda Marlowe as Harriet 'Big' Zapper, a mini-skirted PI out to solve the murder of a young woman. She's opposed by Kono (Gary Hope), a pimp who has a sideline in counterfeit money and dresses a bit like Ronnie 'Z-Man' Barzell, and his gang of inept henchmen. Her loyal sidekick is an impossibly randy loser named Rock Hard (Richard Monette) who spends most of the film snoozing in the back of Harriet's Mercedes in between shags. Screenwriter-director Lindsay Shonteff wavers for the first few reels between straight ahead spoof (witness Big Zapper's badly animated glowing vagina) and video nasty, but wisely decides to amp up the silliness for the film's finale. There's not much to recommend here: the action scenes are dreadfully staged, and the comedy relentlessly unfunny. The film does score points unintentionally for London film fans, who get a nice glimpse of the exterior of the old Angel tube station before its complete reconstruction in the early 1990s.

Karl Ericsson The fearsome and paid swordsman challenges Zapper. His head flies through the air and lands in the arms of his boss. The head says to the boss 'Sorry boss' and then is silent. Zapper undresses in front of the bad guy. Instead of the beaver You see a flashing star, blinding the bad guy. Everything is played by the actors as if it was Shakespeare, but it isn't Shakespeare - it's far better than that! This isn't pretentious society-glorification. Taken to its maximum (or minimum?) or, in any case, to its extreme, this movie proves that society cannot be taken seriously and especially not entertainment and sex. A film for all those, who have seen enough of main-stream entertainment.