Undefeatable (1993)

Original title: Cui Hua Kuang Mo

Director: Godfrey Ho

Writers: Robert Vassar, Steve Harper, Tai Yim

Composer: Todd M. Hahn

Starring: Cynthia Rothrock, Don Niam, John Miller, Donna Jason, Sunny David, Emille Davazac, Hang Yip Yim, Richard Yuen, Gerald Klein, William Buckley, Mike Sutton, Michael Sinclair Walter

More info: IMDb

Tagline: Out of the ring, into the fire... in a fight to the finish

Plot: Kristi Jones (Rothrock) avenges her sister's death at the hands of a crazed martial arts serial killer called Stingray (Niam).

My rating: 4/10

Will I watch it again?  No.

So...this is my first Rothrock picture I've seen and judging by it, it might be the last.  Her fighting is pretty good.  There's lots of slo-mo and you can tell she's making contact with her blows.  Her acting, though, isn't making contact.  Maybe I should cut her some slack.  It's only her 28th film.  It doesn't matter because it's not like anyone else does much better in this thing.  For a while it was pretty entertaining on some level, some of it being so bad it's good.  But there was a point where I thought this was about to wrap up so I checked the time left and I was only 50 minutes into it with 40 more to go!  That's not good.  From there on out it was a chore to get to the finish line.  Something should've been done about that.  90 minutes should not be a magic number films need to achieve, and that's especially for direct to video.  At least the fighting was good but it sure would be nice if movies like this would give you a fight in real time where and where you don't see actors pull their punches or wait to get hit.  Wouldn't it be nice if a fight lasted seconds but it was fought with real precision and speed?  If there's a better Rothrock flick out there please let me know.  I don't want to give up on this broad but I don't want to waste my time, either.  I've got stacks of shitty movies begging for me.