"When are we going to kick ass?"
Mission of Justice is a 1992 Girls with Guns action movie, starring girls-with-guns regulars Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima, as well as Carrie Ng (from Naked Killer).
When a Hong Kong arms dealer only identified as Somi escapes to the Golden Triangle in South-East Asia to establish an alliance with a drug lord, two military agents from Hong Kong, Moon (Moon Lee) and Bullet (Yukari Oshima) are dispatched to assist with his arrest.
In a somewhat rare departure from their usual character archetypes, despite having Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima in the same movie, this time however Oshima is the one who plays the ditzy, klutzy valley girl partner to Moon Lee, unusual considering Oshima is generally considered the more tomboyish among the two.
Mission of Justice contains the following tropes:
- A-Team Firing: In the final battle, the millitary and Somi's thugs spends most of the time shooting at thin air instead of each other.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted for both Moon and Bullet, who sustains facial injuries while fighting mooks before the river shootout. Their facial injuries remains there throughout the entire climax of the film, as seen in the film's poster
. - Blasting It Out of Their Hands: When Somi's henchwoman tries pulling a gun on a rival drug lord threatening Somi, the drug lord's henchman fires a shot that knocks the henchwoman's pistol out of her hands.
- Colonel Badass: Colonel Carrie Pai, a Frontline General who leads her army on raids against drug dealers in the Golden Triangle.
- Cool Shades: Most of the characters, but mostly on Colonel Carrie Pai and Moon. Especially the former who leaves her shades on as she's commanding troops.
- Death by Cameo: B-movie veteran and action star Gary Daniels plays a "nameless blonde mercenary" in the Action Prologue, where he gets to fight Moon... and is quickly shot dead, a second before the opening titles.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Somi, the bespectacled Big Bad.
- Gratuitous Rape: After escaping from Colnel Carrie Pai's soldiers, barely surviving their encounter with the millitary, for some baffling reason Somi decides to bed down Siu-fung, and ends up having sex with her against her will. This scene has NO bearing on the plot of the movie and is quickly forgotten afterwards.
- Knows the Ropes: Moon gets into a fight against Hans' henchwoman, whose weapon is a thick coil of rope which he uses like a whip. Both combatants ends up going through an impromptu tug-of-war, before the rope ends up in Moon's hands.
- Leg Focus: During the random call girl's Shower Scene before she beds down with Somi; not only does the camera lingers uncomfortably close to her soaking wet body under a showerhead, but one shot had her bare foot filling the entire screen as she scrubs it clean.
- Mexican Standoff:
- Between Hans and Somi, while the former is busy bedding a call-girl, and the latter suddenly barges in with his pistol drawn, leading to Hans reaching for a pistol hidden under his pillow.
- When Moon gets confronted by Yie-fung and her thugs, Moon managed to snatch Yie-fung's pistol from her and point it back at her face, at which point surrounding thugs points their pistols on Moon.
- A standoff occurs when Somi, Yie-fung, and Somi's henchwoman ends up arguing with Boss Ma and his minions, at which point they end up drawing guns at each other. Although they end up negotiating at gunpoint instead of shooting each other on the spot.
- Neck Snap: Bullet kills Boss Ma by snapping his neck with her legs.
- Non-Indicative Name: Yukari Oshima's character is named "Bullet", but she only killed a couple of enemies with her machine-gun. Most of her kills are done with grenades during the final scene.
- Secret Underground Passage: Somi's compound has a secret passage just at its corner, which leads to an underground cavern when Colonel Carrie Pai leads her soldiers into the area.
- The Squadette: Both Moon and Bullet wears military fatigues in all their jungle action scenes.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: During the final shootout between the military, against Somi's thugs, Bullet ends up carrying a duffel bag loaded with grenades. At which point she proceeds to fling one grenade after another, blowing up loads and loads of extras. Throughout the finale Bullet easily threw out at least 19 grenades...
- Tomboyish Ponytail: On Bullet.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: In a rare reversal, the Tomboy in this movie is Moon (played by Moon Lee) while Bullet (played by Yukari Oshima) is the feminine girly-girl. Usually its the other way around.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Nevertheless, Moon does have her somewhat girlier side in this movie, with one scene featuring her wearing a pink, polka-dotted dress.
- Unnecessary Combat Roll: For Moon, Somi, and Boss Ma, who keeps rolling across the forest floor while firing away with their pistols.
- World of Action Girls: This being a Girls with Guns movie, there is Moon, Bullet, Somi's henchwoman, Colonel Carrie Pai...
