"Have anyone seen my bazooka?"
Angel Force is a 1991 Action film directed by Hua Shan (The Super Inframan), notably Shan's final film and one of numerous Girls with Guns movies made in early 90s Hong Kong. It is occasionally listed in some territories as Mission Kill, which is also the same alternate title of Mission Of Condor, both movies which was released in 1991, and both starring Moon Lee... confused yet?
B-grade Action baroness Moon Lee plays Min, a Hong Kong policewoman sent to South-East Asia to resolve a kidnapping, only to end up being dragged into leading a rescue mission when the kidnapped hostage turns out to be captured by local guerrillas in the Golden Triangle, at which point Min and the local military will have to lead a raid against a guerrilla army that feels like the scriptwriters ran out of ideas and started rewatching Predator for inspiration.
Angel Force contains the following tropes:
- Action Girl: Min, being typical Moon Lee. Especially when she gets to go crazy in the lengthy jungle battle wielding an Uzi, taking names repeatedly.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Ruan in the final confrontation, when staring down Xia's pistol in the finale, actually gets on his knees and started pleading for mercy. Of course, this is only him buying some time to pull an I Surrender, Suckers to suddenly get the drop on Xia, wrestle Xia's pistol away, and shoot Xia. Before taunting the injured Xia for letting his guard down.
- Anti-Hero: Peter Hong, leader of the militia during the jungle raid, who has tendencies to go Ax-Crazy during battle scenes and seems to enjoy killing a bit too much, as well as behaving like a General Ripper to his soldiers, but he's still firmly on the side of good.
- Badass Biker: During the public assassination scene, Min and the Dark Action Girl lady assassin engaged each other on a high-speed motorcycle chase, the assassin on her own motorcycle, and Min hijacking a random bystander's bike.
- Bait-and-Switch Gunshot: In the ending Ruan is busy taunting Xia with a pistol when a gunshot is suddenly heard. Cue Min showing up with her own pistol, shooting Xia a few more times and killing him.
- Blood Knight: Peter Hong, the commanding officer of the strike team during the jungle action scene, gets increasingly ruthless as his kill count starts to pile up. From gleefully shooting guerrillas who are already dead, beating up surrendered enemies, and trying to rape a female guerrilla after subduing her.
- Deadly Disc: In the final battle, Min managed to take out Ruan's number two by flinging a circular saw blade into his throat.
- Genre Shift: The first half of the movie is a rather standard police action drama with some fight scenes between the typical police procedural, not unlike Yes, Madam, but the moment the film reaches the jungle it suddenly becomes a Chuck Norris-esque action film set in a jungle against loads and loads of South-East Asian extras.
- Improvised Weapon: Mostly used by Min, including crates, bamboo poles, ropes, a sawblade, etc. Although the guerrilla commander also uses whatever he can get his hands on as weapons, including tires and a barrel.
- Hospital Epilogue: Xia, when he's revealed to have survived falling over a hundred meters from an exploding helicopter (well, just barely).
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: The female assassin in the derelict building fight, when Min kicks her backwards, causing the assassin to land on a pick that is stuck upright. Min tries interrogating her, only to curse when the assassin succumbs in a few moments.
- Implacable Man: The guerrilla commander of the Golden Triangle, who can survive a fuel barrel exploding right next to him, whacked in the head by a shovel, smashed through oil drums, getting kicked and punched repeatedly, shot in the back, and knocked off a moving vehicle. It takes being on an exploding helicopter over a hundred feet in the air to finally take him down.
- Jungle Warfare: The entire second act of the film takes place in a South-East Asian jungle swarming with enemy guerillas, with Min and Peter leading the military on an all-out assault on the Golden Triangle's largest guerrila army.
- Lock-and-Load Montage: Happens before the big jungle battle.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: During the jungle escort mission, Min shows some decency towards the female guerrilla, which her team have captured alive to be interrogated later, by giving the starving guerrilla some food. The guerrilla responds by attacking Min and trying to stab Min in her throat with a pointed bamboo rod.
- No Range Like Point-Blank Range: Min's second kill in the derelict construction site gets his temple shot from point-blank by her pistol.
- Outside Ride: The guerrilla camp finale ends with Xia clinging to the outside of the guerrilla commander's escape helicopter.
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Suspiciously Similar Song: During the jungle battle scene, a few cues from The Hunt for Red October can be heard. - The Squadette: Min in the jungle raid scene.
- Taking You with Me: Subverted, when the guerrilla commander managed to get aboard an escape helicopter and take off, Xia managed to cling on the helicopter's bottom and in a last-ditch attempt to take out the commander, decides to lob a grenade into the helicopter. The commander dies as the helicopter blows up, and Xia ends up falling over a hundred meters while partially hurt by the helicopter explosion, but survives (if just barely).
- Throw a Barrel at It: During the final action scene in the guerrilla camp, the guerrilla's commander tries to stop Min, Peter and Xia whom are on a jeep, by flinging a barrel on the vehicle. He later tries to squash Min using a barrel, but failed.
- Sharp-Dressed Man: Ruan, the Big Bad of the picture, played by Hugo Ng.
