Line #22 Film/KillerAngels


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3	''Killer Angels'', also known as ''Megaforce'' or ''Ultra Force'', is a 1989 GirlsWithGuns action movie, made after the success of ''Film/IronAngels'', starring Creator/MoonLee, Creator/GordonLiu and Nadeki Fujimi. Made when the GWG-genre is about to take off, it's among the earlier ''Angel''-themed action movies made at the time and starts the ball rolling with 90s Hong Kong cinema's obsession with gun-totting girls in action films.
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5	When multiple crime bosses ends up being murdered and a suspect - creatively named Jackie Chan, no [[Creator/JackieChan not this one]] - who can help uncover the activities of a human trafficking ring ends up being targeted, a trio of lethal ladies from elite special forces, consisting of bespectacled strategist Rosa, sharpshooter Yau-li/Yolanda, and rough, brutish fighter with a troubled past Amy, is assigned to guard him. But Yau-li ends up discovering the killer isn't who he really seems.
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7	A sequel of sorts is released two '''months''' later. Titled ''Devil Hunters'', known internationally as ''[[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Megaforce 2]]'' or ''[[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo Ultra Force 2]]'', the sequel inexplicably has a brand-new, entirely original storyline, despite sharing the same director and main actor. Moon Lee is back, but this time the all-new cast includes Creator/SibelleHu playing the usual cowboy-cop persona she is usually known for at the time, Creator/AlexMan as Moon and Sibelle's supervisor, Ray Lui (who would later co-star alongside Moon in ''Film/FatalTermination'') as the son of a mobster seeking revenge, and old school Shaw Brothers badass Creator/MichaelChan (fittingly enough, since ''Killer Angels'' has another Shaw Brothers alumni, Gordon Liu).
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9	The second movie has Moon playing a new character, Chun-bing, a con artist with a mysterious past, who is neither affiliated with the police or the mob. A top police enforcer, Inspector Tung (Sibelle) is investigating triad activities, the son of a rival triad leader Chai-yuet (Ray) is trying to avenmge his father's death, while a retired mobster Yin-fu (Michael Chan) who is friends with Chun-bing's father ends up being dragged into a smuggling incident led by triad boss Shing. Somehow, this leads to an explosive-laden finale with various characters on different sides with completely different affiliations working together to take down hordes and hordes of mobsters.
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11	''Devil Hunters'' is especially notorious for an on-set accident when filming it's final scene, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJOjctQ2Kk4 as seen here]] (further details explained in TRIVIA).
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14	!!''Killer Angels'' / ''Megaforce'' / ''Ultra Force'' contains examples of:
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18	* ActorAllusion: Yau-li, being played by Moon Lee, is once again a secret agent of an elite special forces unit sent to investigate criminal activities, culminating in her taking on an entire army of mobsters, much like her breakthrough role from ''Film/IronAngels''. In fact Moon Lee's character is pretty much an {{Expy}} of her prior role, sharing the same actress, attitude, persona and such.
19	* AttackHello: The moment Amy sees Jackie, the suspect she's supposed to bodyguard, the first thing she did is to confront him in a kitchen and kick the snot out of him, with Yau-li and Rosa [[LetMeAtHim trying their best to hold Amy back]] as she tries to beat Jackie to death. The reason is that Amy recognizes Jackie as an accomplice to Chico, the same man who shot her son and tried to kill her 3 years ago.
20	* BadassBiker: Fujimi, who kicks ass while on a motorcycle. A shootout scene she's in has her taking out mooks while speeding on her motorbike, and later on, when she's leading her own mooks to attack Yau-li, she's cruising around on her motorbike as well until Yau-li forces her to crash.
21	* BadassCrew: The Blue Angels, consisting of strategist Rosa, sharpshooter Yau-li, and combat expert Amy.
22	* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: One example that doesn't involve any deaths, though. [[spoiler: When Michael is eventually assigned to kill Yau-li, Yau turns around allowing Michael to finish her off. Cue gunshot... and Michael had actually shot himself in the arm]].
23	* BeautyBrainsAndBrawn: Played straight for the three main characters, member of the Blue Angels.
24	** '''Beauty''': Yau-li / Yolanda, most feminine of the trio, a long-haired GirlyBruiser who gets to go undercover as a singer during her undercover assignment, but when it comes to taking names she is a devil with a machine gun.
25	** '''Brains''': Rosa, Yolanda's bespectacled sidekick, strategist, and partner who backs her up during infiltrations and assists in planning the mission.
26	** '''Brawn''': Amy, eldest of the trio, fights first, asks questions later, and can beat up mooks with ease.
27	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Chico's fate]], courtesy of Michael via SniperRifle after the former's superiors considered him [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer of any use to the syndicate]].
28	* BoyishShortHair: On Amy. Note that it was likely a TraumaticHaircut performed offscreen - during her flashback 3 years ago before her son's death, she still has long hair at that point.
29	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Amy finally confronts Chico, the triad enforcer who killed her son and nearly killed her 3 years ago. Holding Chico at gunpoint, she demands if he remembers shooting the boy. His answer?
30	--> '''Chico''': "I've killed so many people, I don't know what your talking about!"
31	* CampingACrapper: One of Michael's hits in his introduction scene is an unfortunate mobster he garrotes behind a urinal, before dragging the victim to a bathroom stall for him to finish off via stabbing.
32	* TheCavalryArrivesLate: Downplayed, by the time the police arrives to reinforce the Blue Angels, they have already killed majority of the syndicate's mooks, at the cost of [[spoiler: Amy and Michael dying]]. But the police managed to arrest any remaining mooks still alive, and [[spoiler: stop Yau-li from killing the syndicate leader by capturing him alive]].
33	* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind:
34	** During the night infiltration scene, Yau-li gets to beat up a score of mooks when one of them tries swinging a pick from behind her. Rosa sniped that last mook with her crossbow.
35	** [[spoiler: Just as Fujimi is about to shoot Michael InTheBack as he walks away, Yau-li shoots Fujimi first]]. The latter DiesWideOpen without even realizing who shot her.
36	* CoolShades: Michael's sunglasses are prominently displayed in almost every scene he's in, notably in his introduction scene - Michael killing at least seven mobsters, wearing his shades the whole time.
37	* DeathMontage: Michael's introduction, which takes up the first five minutes of the film, depicting Michael killing at least seven mobsters in quick succession using various weapons including guns, knives, and a garrote.
38	* DeathOfAChild: Amy's son gets shot by Chico during Amy's TroubledBackstoryFlashback sequence.
39	* DarkActionGirl: Fujimi, girlfriend of Michael and a mob assassin as deadly as he is. She is also more ruthless when it comes to performing hits or executions and takes delight in beating up her opponents during fights.
40	* DiedInYourArmsTonight : [[spoiler: Michael in Yau-li's arms at the end of the movie]].
41	* FatalFamilyPhoto: Amy carries a framed photo of her with her son, who was shot after witnessing a mob assassination 3 years earlier. [[spoiler: In the final shootout, Amy gets shot by Michael, a character she didn't even get to interact with throughout the film]].
42	* HandCannon: Michael's preferred weapon which he uses in shootouts, capable of firing InstantDeathBullet at mooks.
43	* HellBentForLeather:
44	** Yau-li during her musical number, wearing black skintight leather pants and jacket, complete with EightiesHair and HighCollarOfDoom.
45	** DarkActionGirl Fujimi is never seen without her leather motorcycle jacket.
46	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Michael, deciding that [[EvenEvilHasStandards his boss has gone too far in his criminal activities]], deliberately uses himself as a meatshield to save Yau-li]].
47	* HumanTrafficking: The syndicate runs human trafficking ring, complete with cages containing young women hidden in the basement of their BigFancyHouse hideout.
48	* InLoveWithTheMark: It comes as no surprise that Michael would eventually fall for Yau-li, and that Michael's superiors would eventually order him to execute every member of the Blue Angels.
49	* InstantSedation: In the stakeout scene, Yau-li, disguised as a nightclub hostess, knocks out a client she's flirting with using knockout gas... disguised as breath spray. Yes, two squeezes and her target is somehow completely unconscious.
50	* LeaveNoWitnesses: In Amy's flashback, when her son accidentally witnessed Chico disposing of a target, the first thing Chico does is shoot both Amy and her boy. While the bullet that hits Amy is OnlyAFleshWound, her son isn't that lucky.
51	* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler: When Michael's betrayal is eventually exposed by Fujimi, an enraged Fujimi threatens to expose him, asking him if he knows what the syndicate does to traitors. Michal's response is to give his HandCannon to Fujimi and walk away]]. [[spoiler: He didn't count on Yau-li suddenly arriving and shooting Fujimi, before the latter can shoot him, though]].
52	* ProfessionalKiller: Michael and his girlfriend Fujimi are both elite assassins. Although Michael turns out to be a HitmanWithAHeart who eventually falls for Yau-li and turns on his boss.
53	* RevengeBeforeReason: Amy, who is desperate to take down the mob responsible for her son's death, will stop at nothing, even [[spoiler: if it means betraying her allies]].
54	* ShoutOut: The name of the suspect that the Blue Angels are supposed to bodyguard throughout most of the movie? "Creator/JackieChan". The entire movie simply refers to him as "Jackie", however.
55	* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: Roughly thirteen minutes into this action film, suddenly the movie segues into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn3O-48Czdc a rather lengthy (but still awesome)]] musical number of Yau-li performing in a nightclub. Justified that she is infiltrating the mob while posing as a singer, but it still comes a little out of nowhere. The song she performs in the movie itself, "Betray" by Chai Li, a.k.a. Cherrie Choi, does replay during the end credits though.
56	* SlippingAMickey: [[spoiler: When Amy attempts to leave the headquarters and take on the syndicate all by her own, she drugs Rosa, the only other member present with her, unconscious using a sleeping pill]].
57	* TheSyndicate: The mob that employs Michael and Fujimi as their personal assassins are rich enough to afford their own private army with matching blue uniforms, and install an ElaborateUndergroundBase beneath their BigFancyHouse mansion where their sex slaves are kept in cages.
58	* UnknownRival: The only member of the Blue Angels trio Michael gets to interact with is protagonist Yau-li, and he have absolutely zero knowledge on Amy and Rosa even as they raid his boss' hideout in the finale. [[spoiler: In fact, the first and only interaction between Amy and Michael is him shooting her casually]].
59	* VasquezAlwaysDies: There are four female characters - GirlyBruiser Yau-li, bespectacled Rosa, brutish and buff Amy, and DarkActionGirl Fujimi. [[spoiler: The former two survives, the latter two die rather unceremoniously and randomly]].
60	* WorldOfActionGirls: Four of the five ladies in the movie are ass-kickers, including Yau-li, Rosa, Amy, and Fujimi.
61	* WouldHurtAChild: When Chico, in the middle of disposing of a witness, realize he's been seen by a little boy, the first thing he does is to shoot the kid. Needless to say, he's the main bad guy of this movie.
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64	!!''Devil Hunters'' / ''Megaforce 2'' / ''Ultra Force 2'' contains examples of:
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68	* ChaseFight: Between Chun-bing and a suspect, in the crowded streets of Hong Kong and into a dark alleyway.
69	* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: Chai-yuet's father is shot in the middle of a public parking lot, with machine-guns being involved.
70	* CowboyCop: Inspector Tung, which is normal for Sibelle Hu. She's not afraid to rough up her suspects and use brute force when interrogating witnesses, and is rather trigger-happy.
71	* DecoyProtagonist: Yin-fu gets plenty of screentime and development early on, being hyped as a former mobster and a badass. And he proves himself to be a really dangerous foe as well, launching a one-man assault on Shing's mob. [[spoiler: But after Yin-fu dies the story continues without him]].
72	* DisposableWoman: Superintendant Tsang's girlfriend-slash-lieutenant, who gets to kick ass alongside Tsang in a shootout early in the film, only to unceremoniously get a shotgun blast through her chest. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight She dies in his arms and clearly means a lot to him given how he's grieving badly over her demise]], but considering she has around seven minutes of screentime it's hard to care for her.
73	* DoNotGoGentle: Yin-fu's final scene has him being cornered by legions upon legions of Shing's mooks. But he came prepared, and [[spoiler: managed to kill at least twenty enemies before finally getting shot InTheBack]].
74	* FanDisservice: Candy's ColdBloodedTorture scene involves her getting stripped down to her underwear and having bags of insects and leeches emptied on her naked skin while she is all tied up. She gets [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil gang-raped for good measure]].
75	* GunsAkimbo: Yin-fu, during his LastStand against Shing's mooks; his machine-gun out of ammo, he then pulls out dual pistols, and inexplicably becomes a character from a John Woo picture gunning down mooks with both guns.
76	* HandCannon: Chai-yuet gets to wield a Magnum during one of his shootouts, in a CallBack to the previous movie (despite sharing none of the characters) since that's the same type of weapon favored by Michael.
77	* HollywoodSilencer: When Chun-bing engaged the suspect in a chase on an overhead bridge, the suspect whips out a silenced pistol and shoots at her, with gunshots barely audible over the sound of road traffic. Nobody within vicinity of the area heard the gunshots, and didn't realize someone is using firearms until the suspect gunned down bystanders.
78	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the climatic fight, Chai-yuet fights Shing's number two, which culminates with Chai lifting his opponent above his head, impaling him on a sharp bamboo pole oddly positioned right above them.
79	* LockAndLoadMontage: Right before the final shootout against Shing and his mooks, Chun-bing, Inspector Tang and Chai-yuet gets to arm themselves to the teeth with Chai's cache of firearms.
80	* ManOnFire: In the final scene as the three protagonists made a leap off an exploding balcony, Chun-bing and Inspector Tung have their clothing catching fire and is burning all the way as they fell. Tung (Sibelle) is notably ''shrouded'' in flames. It turns out this was unintentional, and the actors are accidentally set on fire in ''real life'' due to the pyrotechnics being poorly-timed.
81	* MoreDakka: The final shootout had Chun-bing, Inspector Tung and Chai Yuet whipping out progressively larger guns when taking down hordes and hordes of mooks.
82	* ObfuscatingStupidity: In Chun-bing's first scene, she is disguised as a klutzy, ditsy, accident-prone girl scout who keeps begging people to buy her charity stickers... right before she suddenly beats the hell out of two dozen people. Moon Lee, ladies and gentlemen.
83	* OneManArmy: Yin-fu, who can take on scores and scores of mooks, although [[spoiler: he ultimately dies at the end of his sole action scene]]. Subverted with the team of Chun-bing, Inspector Tung and Chai-yuet, a Three-Man Army (Ok fine, One-Man-Two-Girl-Army).
84	* ShovelStrike: When Chun-bing ends up fighting the suspect she's apprehending, the suspect tries to skewer her with a bamboo rod. She responds by grabbing a nearby shovel and whacking him in the face with it, [[AccidentalMurder accidentally killing him]] when she's supposed to take him alive.
85	* TakingYouWithMe: Shing, choosing to blow up a set of gas tanks rather than facing arrest from the protagonists. He ultimately fails as Chun-bing, Inspector Tung and Chai-yuet performs a SuperWindowJump out of an exploding balcony.
86	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Chun-bing and Inspector Tung. The former's introduction is a ditzy flower girl wearing a skirt and is noticeably more feminine, while the latter is a rough tomboy and cowboy cop throughout.
87	* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: By the end of the film, Chun-bing, Inspector Tung and Chai-yuet realize they're in this together, and teams up to take on Shing and his syndicate.
88	* YouKilledMyFather: Originally Chai-yuet is the only one seeking vendetta on Shing for his father's assassination, but in the final battle [[spoiler: Chun-bing ends up finding her father's corpse, having being shot by Shing as well, resulting in her going on a SelfDestructiveCharge in a rage to take down Shing]].

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