bbickley13-921-58664 I must admit I really enjoyed watching the movie.I really like the fight sequences done in the film. Without knowing anything but what I see, it feels like a group of people who knew Karate got together and made a cheap karate film. I can't help but to find that cool. If I knew Karate, and knew a butch of other people that knew Karate, I would get my camera and do the same thing.It was the good type of cheesy. Sure, these guys need to learn how to do some fight choreography to make the fights more fluid, and to make the blows more realistic (A good sound guy could have help with that as well), but when it comes to Marshal arts films, I got to give these guys and A for effort. It was pure enjoyment. The story was so weak it does not need to be mentioned and I did not get the need to repeat fight scenes in slow motion, which showed us how accurate the technique is, but show us how fake the contact was, but overall it was cool that things like this get made.

poe426 HIGH KICK GIRL! starts off promisingly enough, as Rina Takeda "hunts black belts." Her "hunting" attracts the attention of a local gang, The Destroyers, who promptly try to recruit her (shades of THE PROFESSIONAL). Throughout the movie, characters are introduced by name usually mere moments before they're killed off. I've seen this kind of thing in kung fu movies and have come to believe it's because the movies in question (like THE WATER MARGIN or THE BRAVE ARCHER, for instance) are based on books. HIGH KICK GIRL! is so linear, however, that it's hard to believe it's based on a book (a manga, maybe). Like Kathy Long's character in KNIGHTS, Takeda wades through the opposition like a freight train- and then abruptly steps aside to allow her sensei (Tatsuya Naka) to take over a little more than halfway through the movie (which he does without missing a beat). The action is tight throughout and there appear to be more than a few instances where some solid contact was made. I had no problem with the slo-mo replays, myself. If you like full contact filmmaking, you'll like HIGH KICK GIRL!

Destroyer Wod This movie start more or less with a premise similar to Fighter in the Wind, in a more teenage style. A young girl goes around from Dojo to Dojo to collect black belt out of karate expert, similar to FITW when Oyama travel to meet every master he can to prove he is the strongest. But the problem is, this is as far as it go... She fight ONE dojo only(the movie tell yes she has fight many before but thats it). So after that opening scene, lets say the story is very thin, but if you watch many martial arts movie, i saw that many times especially in Thai movies(this one is Japanese tough) so its not that much of a problem, as long as the fight scenes are solid right? Yet this movie fail on that point too... The fight could had been pretty good, but the movie is plagued by awful slow motion all the time, worst it even goes to show super slow-mo of an already slow motion scene.... I love a repeat of a killer blow to finish a bad guy once in a while in a movie, or a slow mo to show a super hit, but here every damn punch and kicks are turned into slow-mo... Which just artificially boost the movie lenght and make the fight slow paced and boring. Even the sound effects are terribles...And what about adding some music to fights? Barely some poor Japanese pop music in a couple scenes and thats it. No really i am super easy to please when it comes to martial arts movie, i enjoy pretty much everything from Thais "no plot but superb fighting" movies, to the good old American "revenge kickboxing flicks". I loved many movies that people gave less than 5, from the cynthia rothrock flicks to don the dragon Wilson, but this one was a mess and i was bored all movie long. I don't mind cheesy Japanese style, when its what I'm looking for. Look at Oneechanbara, that was exactly what i tough it would be, cheesy, over the top, unrealistic stuff. But here i was expecting a serious martial art movie, even in the vein of a Japanese Karate Kid type, but i was wrong. Poor movie, score goes to the actors martial arts skill, cause with a good director, they could go make an awesome movie.

kingofalldomains-919-751049 First off the movie "Chocolate" absolutely demolishes this movie in the amount of action and REAL martial arts skills displayed. As soon as I saw the length of the previous review, (overly long and just too-detailed)and the fact that the review disses an obviously superior film like Chocolate. I suspected that the review was planted...Oops I meant biased as is most times the case.High Kick Girl is another in the long line of overall slightly disappointing girl karate movies, all with great promise, all ending in mediocre results.Part of the issue is that JeeJa Yanin star of Chocolate is a real martial artist of amazing skill, and when it comes down to it, lesser skilled "actresses" just cannot cut the mustard when the action starts, even if fast camera edits/cuts attempt to simulate a fast paced frenzy. Sorry but this is no substitute for REAL talent, although I am sure there will be plenty more pretty Japanese school girls to see fighting in the future, (if poorly).As for High Kick Girl itself...do you like slow motion? you better because every scene with some martial arts kick is repeated over and over again, there are also scenes that have little to do with the plot added as well as other scenes where the action just stops. you'd think the DVD has a glitch in it. I think the director realized there just isn't much plot and tried to stretch the film out to a still short 85 minutes. High Kick Girl not terrible, but a poor choice.