Literary rating: ★★ Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆☆½ Somebody really liked Killing Eve… If you’re going to write a story about an amoral female assassin, working for a shadowy group, who becomes involved with a woman she’s supposed to kill, then you are basically inviting such comparisons. These are unlikely to be… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “Wait Until After Dark” Yeah, as the above might suggest, this owes a rather large debt to Wait Until Dark, with its central theme of an attractive, blind protagonist threatened by home invaders. It is not the first to have gone down that road (see also In Darkness), and I must… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “The Beast is yet to come…” Debate raged over this one. Chris reckons lead actress Shimamura was, at some point, a man. I’m not quite so convinced, but the mere thought certainly gave the sex scenes here an added edge of creepiness. Given the lengthy such sequence which occurs… Continue reading| Girls With Guns
★★★ “Mostly hit, and several misses.” Well, after taking ten years to get from the third film to the first, the gap between first and second is considerably shorter. I think this probably works the best of the trilogy, not least because there are a few good GWG to be… Continue reading| Girls With Guns