Henchwomen Fight

In 2025 movie Reckoning Day AKA 清算. Actress Han Zeyi plays as villainess Sakura Koi.

This movie looks awesome, it starts with some kind of ritual, and the ones making the ritual like cut themselves then make the blood pure in a cup, then drink it and spray it, like WTF..

Damn, it seems like a gang of the Chinese resistance, hope we get awesome fights, the concept is really cool.

Ok, they gave us awesome fight, like absolutely amazing, but it seems like the fight will happen later on, and I kind of hate that, like, why you keep the movie going till we reach the fight instead of breaking the immersion, and we can't even enjoy the full fight scene or enjoy the story till it leads to the fight scene, like you can do it that in the trailer, but not within the movie.

Let me tell you this, if the west was in control of China, movie like this would be banned, that's how much creative freedom Chinese artists have compared to the west, and here's why, think about the history between China and Japan, there's no way western censors would let a movie like this to be made, they will never let any entertainment company to show anything livable or downplay how horrible living under Japanese occupation was, like, this whole movie will be banned, the lighting, the costumes, the casting, the story of this movie will never be permitted, and whoever say otherwise, I'm sorry, you are too brainwashed to see it..

It seems like two gangs fighting each others, and some sane guy went like "We are brothers, we shouldn't fight each others, and someone went from behind and impaled him..", like whenever I see people fighting and thinking on intervening to stop it, this scene will play in my head and will go like "Nope" LOL!

We see the first villainess paying respect to a late gang leader..

I don't know why the movie feels rushed, it's about 2 hours, it should give you a plenty of time to introduce the characters and build the world, like the uncle of the heroine was just shot, like he just came and went, and I think the male villain behind it, which would be ok, if it's organized in a way to build the character of the heroine, being like having a quite life, then go to meet her uncle, then it happened and go from there, but the movie prevented such transition of the character, it already predicted that, she had to leave to Shanghai because she's no longer safe, like it already preemptively gave away the sense of danger by saying she's already in danger, instead of not giving us such info and introduce us to the sudden attack and her loss of her uncle to make us reach the conclusion of her being in danger, then build on that.

We see the gorgous villainess when she caught the heroine while eavesdropping.

Finished 1 hour, and I don't get it, the movie starts with gang that kind of a resistance movement, like some very interesting and exciting introduction, and it seems they were sidelined, and now everything is focused on the heroine assassinating bad guys, like revenge movie, like what happened to the movement? Why there aren't any other active characters? And the best fight scenes are of people who don't play active roles, and those who are supposed to be the main villains their fights ends in moments, they are barely affordable enemies, it's like the movie giving itself too much to chew, too many characters, with so little active roles, the fight scenes are awesome, but it could be better, and could've made the movie move in certain direction and also it's hard to understand what is drive the story forward, like I get it's revenge, but is it about her uncle, or is she part of the Chinese resistance and her goal to liberate her people is what inspire her, it's not clear, she also don't contact anyone from the resistance, so we can say it's the liberation motive, like what the end goal, and also the gang at the start of the movie was talking about protecting heritage or something, so one assume we would have the villains going after a treasure and the end goal for the gang to stop it, and the end goal for the villains to acquire it, it feels like the motive behind the story is sacrificed in exchange of fight scenes, which as awesome as they are, and they are awesome, the movie lack the motive for the characters, both villains and heroes, or at least isn't made clear or compelling.

  Anyway, the movie gets better and better the more I watch it, we later learn that the heroine is actually the heir of the gang, I don't know if they mentioned it before, maybe they did but I didn't pay attention due to how many things happening in a short period of time and how rushed the movie was to push us towards that end.

Hou Tongjiang playing Elder Hong is doing excellent work, like his charisma and facial expression, really great actor and would love to see him more, yet, and that's not the fault of the actor, but after he exposed Cheng the movie destroyed his charisma, like he made him ran towards the poisoned crown as if he's an idiot, being an elder should make him more reasonable and wise, not like some impulsive character.

Apparently now we know what the Japanese were after, like some old relic, the movie didn't establish how important this is, or what it means, which should be the focus of the plot, and why the heroine have to get it back, and fight for it..

The heroine is cool TBH, she's like an update on Lara Croft, and her fight scene and her outfit towards the end is really cool.

So, she entered the tunnel and stepped into a trap by Japanese soldiers, nice gun fight, but then the soldier's chairman just gave himself to the heroine to use him as a hostage, like first she stepped into a trap, and in a second the problem is solved by the gang stepping in, like she wasn't like trapped or out of ammo or injured or anything, so, their presence feels weightless, and then while they are fighting she gets another free gift by having a Japanese simp giving himself to take him as a hostage, even more weightless, like it's not like they were overpowered, and about to die, so he can be a solution of a hard situation, and after all of that, it didn't even matter because they had a shootout and defeated them anyways, like, what was even the point?

Just finished the movie, that was one of the greatest movies I've seen for years, I get that the story could be much better, but if you watched it as pure action movie, it's awesome, something like John Wick, and I would say it's even better, and if the story was more contained, it would be amazing, I wanted to find more info on the gorgeous actress who played the main villainess, and this clip is all I've got, so, check it out and check her wholesome performance, and her angelic voice. 

Absolutely stunning and talented actress, like just watch the movie, watch this clip, and see how she manged to master totally different roles with completely different characteristics, that's real acting 💖💖💖.

Really fun movie, the effects are awesome, the fights are awesome, the movie ended and I still want more of it, that's what make a good movie different from a bad one, a good movie ends while you still want to keep watching, and anticipating the next movie to come, while with bad movies, you may even not finish the movie because how boring it is, still I wish if the movie focused more on the gang, and made mystery about it, like the way they were introduced, I was expecting them to be like Assassin Creed, but they did so little to push the movie forward.