I've seen a lot of Asian movies, and also a lot of non-Asian movies, that are supposed to take place in Vietnam but I'm not sure if I had ever seen a Vietnamese movie made by actual Vietnamese folks in Vietnam before this one. What you got here is basically that movie TAKEN if the Liam Neeson character was a little Vietnamese lady(Veronica Ngo, who was in one of those new STAR WARS movies that I don't really care about). Full of whatever they call kung-fu in Vietnam but surprisingly not really a lot of bloodshed despite all the knives, axes and other assorted implements of destruction that are employed. Pretty basic stuff that might entertain you on a Saturday afternoon.
There is a prequel called FURIES that came out 3 years later.
In Vietnam they just used the character's name as the title:
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