I believe the first ULTRA FORCE is Michelle Yeoh's ROYAL WARRIORS from 1986(a sequel to Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock's YES, MADAM!) under a different alias. I've never seen that one but I don't think there's any direct connection other than both movies being about Hong Kong police. Other alternate titles for this are MEGAFORCE 2 (making this a sequel to 1989's KILLER ANGELS which is also sometimes called ULTRA FORCE(confused yet?)) and RAW FORCE 3 (not sure what that makes it a sequel to but let's just say it's this classic). To obscure things even more YES, MADAM! is also known as ULTRA FORCE 2 in some places.
None of that really matters though since this stands on it's own as an ass-kicking action-packed epic. Moon Lee(aka Mona Lee) is our main gal here and really stands out. If you can deal with all the repetitive gun-fu on display and not very complex storyline give it a look for some great 80s Hong Kong action.
Unfortunately, as is the case with a lot of these HK actioners, a few of the actors involved with stunt work(including Lee) were pretty badly hurt in the big fiery finale. This might be the only movie from there that I've seen where they actually stop the action to give a disclaimer about how bad the accident was though. I assume that means things went pretty awry. AKA DEVIL HUNTERS
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