Latex Movie Review: Naked Killer

The strange thing about watching Wong Jing's Naked Killer is that a week after watching it I could not remember what it was about. I had bought a DVD of this movie back in the late 90's and watched it again last year during a period when I was going through my collection. And yet when it came time to write this review I could not remember a single thing that happened in the movie, let alone if I actually liked the movie. Sure, I had vague memories of women shooting and fighting each other and remembered that the movie ended with an explosion, (it would be a spoiler to say here which character explodes,) but other than that nothing. And that is the problem not just with this movie, but many of Jing's other movies that I have seen. Even God of Gamblers seems like a blur when I try to remember it's exact plot, and that was one of Jing's better movies.

Refreshing my memory by watching the movie again I can see why it is so forgettable. The film is a mess. The plot is muddled. While the fight scenes are adequately choreographed they are poorly framed and edited. The gun battles are also lacking. Unlike the carefully choreographed shootouts you would expect from directors like John Woo, Wong Jing's battles has the hero shooting his gun causing every foe in the room to simultaneously leap backwards dead before they have a chance to get a shot off. Just about the only thing Jing films right is filming lesbians having sex. In what little plot I can explain, a hooker named Kitty (Chingmy Yau) takes revenge for the killing of her father by storming the office where the murderer works an shooting everyone. While making her escape from security she takes a woman hostage. The woman turns out to be an assassin named Sister Cindy (Wai Yiu) who had come to the office to do pretty much what Kitty had done, only Kitty beat her to it. Sister Cindy immediately takes charge of the situation, gunning down the guards and spiriting Kitty away to her apartment. Seeing some potential in the hooker she trains Kitty to be her disciple. Together they become a team of killers for hire. Eventually a hit is put on them when they take out a Japanese crime boss and the assassin who takes the job is Princess (Carrie Ng), Sister Cindy's former disciple who now has her own disciple named Baby (Madoka Sugawara). All this is a big excuse for cathartic fight and shootout scenes between the characters. Throw into the mix Simon Yam as a police detective who falls in love with Kitty even as he is investigating the rash of mysterious killings from lady assassins.

If I had never seen a Hong Kong action film before I may have found the action scenes in this movie interesting. But I have seen hundreds of Asian martial arts and action films, and most of them are stages far far better than in this movie. And like I said, the plot is forgettable. I can say that the movie does hold your attention from start to finish, and is mostly void of cheesy comedy that mars most Hong Kong movies. If you are looking for something at the same quality as The Killer or Legend of the Drunken Master then forget it. But if you are looking for something crazy and do not mind having to read subtitles then watch at your own risk.

THE SCENE:
1hour 20 minutes into the film Chingmy Yau shows up at Princesses lair wearing a silver latex top, black satin leggings and a wrap around black flamenco style skirt. She wears this outfit for the remainder of the movie which not only gives you ten minuets of her in the outfit but has her rubbing and squeezing her own breast through the latex top, having a full on lesbian scene with Carrie Ng, and even taking a dip in the pool with the outfit on. The women in this movie wear other sexy outfits, none which really fall into the fetish category though. But there are also the publicity photos for this movie where Chingmy Yau is wearing thigh high leather boots, leather shorts and nothing else. One or more of these photos may be the DVD box (depending on the distributor) and may even include the publicity photos as a bonus feature on the disc itself. This outfit does not actually appear in the movie.