movie mixed scissors scenes 
by dmg e-mail:donfreeman@webtv.net
Eastern Condors


STARRING: Sammo Hung Angela Mao Joyce Godenzi Haing S. Ngor Philip Ko Corey
Yuen Directed by Sammo Hung

ACCESS: video only at the moment

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: i've seen this movie described as Dirty Dozen meets Deer
Hunter. it's very violent, about a group of prisoners freed from American
jails in order to go back to Vietnam on a secret mission. along the way they
are aided by a very deadly efficient group of female commandos.

SCISSORS SCENE: three female commandos dressed in black attack a squad of
about ten soldiers relaxing in their campsite. one of the girls gets up on a
rock and begins to suggestively gyrate about, diverting the attention of the
soldiers from the other two who attack from behind. one of them throws a knife
into the back of the soldier who appeared to be the leader. as chaos breaks
out the girl on the rock nimbly somersaults to the ground and pulls the knife
from the dead man's back and kills another one with it. there is fighting and
carnage going on throughout the campsite as the three brutal women overwhelm
the surprised defenders. at one point one of the women slides underneath a man
who winds up standing bowlegged above her. as he looks down her head is on the
ground between his feet. she acrobatically raises her lower body and traps him
in a reverse bodyscissors, pulling him down to the ground. he lands flat on
his back and cntinues to roll until his shoulder and neck are on the ground
and his butt is straight up in the air. his legs are folded down on either
side of his head. she is now sitting on the ground with her legs holding the
upside down man in place. (the move is very similiar to what is called a
sunset flip in wrestling) suddenly one of the other girls appears and stabs
down into the man's rear end. (so many people say that they are going to tear
you a new one, but so few actually do something about it.) the girls then
finish moppng up, so to speak, the remaining males.

POSITIVES: the setup is so-so, and the rest of the movie is not bad, as long
as you don't mind extreme violence,

NEGATIVES: the lighting is poor, and the action is so fast paced that you may
need your special effects button on the VCR to be sure of what you're seeing.
stabbing and scissoring just don't seem to go well together. (Menno's Mind is
an exception!) here there is no squeezing. the scissors is just used as a
setup for a kill.

OVERALL RATING: *