One of the more popular complaints people have with the rape/revenge movie I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is that the raping takes up way more of the film than the revenge does. Well in this movie here, which is sort of a Hong Kong-version of ISOYG, they rectify that by getting right through the raping and spending most of the movie dealing the revenging or "her vengeance" as the title promises. It works out pretty good in this case because this is more of an action movie melded with the trappings of your typical revenge plot. I still don't think it would have improved SPIT though since that movie is presented as more of a horror film.
There's some typical crazy Asian elements in this, the highlight of which has to be when our heroine goes to see a doctor after being attacked and after he peers into her vagina announces that she has AIDS, her breasts are going to shrink and her hair and hymen are going to fall out. I'm pretty sure that's not how AIDS works but I'm no doctor.
Since this was made by Golden Harvest films, known mainly for their kung-fu flicks there's lots of pretty awesome fight scenes and it ends things with an amazing climax battle that includes wheelchair-fu, hundreds of fish-hooks to the face, big-ass crossbows and all kinds of crazy homemade implements of destruction.
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