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Actress Name : Selina Wiesmann
Character Name : Mantis
Year : 2025


In 2025 movie Gladiator Underground. Actress Selina Wiesmann plays as villainess Mantis.

The movie basically starts with telling you the premise so you understand what's going on, which is good and bad, the good part is that sometimes I get lost watching Asian movies to keep up with the plot, like I watched recently Blades of the Guardians and I kind of got lost watching the movie, like so many characters, many of them introduced by writing their name on the screen, many of them don't play active role in the movie, the story also have like 5 tribes, it would make sense if it was a TV show so you can have understanding of the realm of the story, but when it comes to movies it's hard to process too much information for a movie that is new to you, also the idea of the character having unfamiliar or easy to remember names make it hard to remember them, so that's the positive..
The negative is that you don't reveal such information later, which can help you explore the story over time which would make you invested, like, what is this place, why it exist, who is behind it, why they do it etc.. By revealing everything early there's no space for that, losing the mysterious nature of what's going on can make you less invested in the movie. For example, let's say you have the hero character, you want the audience to explore the world through them, like, they don't know why they are here, or what is this place, maybe the hero is in debt and had to enrolled in such tournament as the other choice would be their death, so, they explore a new dangerous world, they don't know if they are going to survive or not, they don't know what happen if they won, they don't know who is behind such tournament, and you explore the world with them.

Anyway, let's keep watching..

Damn, the movie starts with awesome fight scene..
We see Brian Le playing Shojin just afterwards, he was fighting and punched one of the audience by mistake LOL, it was so funny..

 We get another cool fight between Max and Wu Yen that ends with "ENOUGH", like it happened once at the start of the movie when a third party stepped in to stop the fight, for it to happen again, it sets the stakes too low, which also would make the audience less invested in any fight between these two characters, in order to make good use of a second fight, one of them had to be beaten or humiliated by the other, which would give the defeated a motive to get fight and defeat the winner in another fight, if it's the hero, it would be like he's overcoming a challenge, a failure and fear, if it's the villain it can be out of pride, ego, and jealousy for example etc..

Finally We first see our gorgeous villainess around 30 minutes mark..

Ok, first of all, I think this movie main audience are MMA sport fans, I don't enjoy watching MMA matches, but I get it's very popular, for me, you have MMA matches, you elevate it then you have WWE, because WWE have theatrical element to it, in the coordination, and even drama and characters, then elevate it and you get movie fights, maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't watch a movie just to watch MMA fight, I would just watch MMA fights without watching a movie..
My other problem is Sifu, it's hard to care about the character, like he didn't even die, so it's hard to understand the motive the two main characters have, so he can't be an element to push the story forward, and his character wasn't even built so we care about him or his injuries have an impact, if you want the moment Shojin raided the place have an impact, you have to build for it, for example you get the story of the two main characters since they were children and train with him and we see him age over time, so the audience can develop a connection with him, so they care about what happen to him, other problem is Shojin himself, since he too did it unwillingly, the idea of the two heroes avenging their mentor is also meaningless, so basically the character was useless..
Now after the tournament starts, we get Max Yen having a fight, then he wins the fight, after that Wu Yen having a fight, then wins the fight, I get the movie focus on the fight scenes, and probably people who are into MMA sport will really love it, but still, both Wu Yen and Max winning the fights have no impact, because, we don't know what the nature of the challenge they are facing, at least we get another fight between two different players, and let's say one of the player win and break the back of his opponent, then when one of the heroes fight the winner, the stakes became high, even if the fight didn't take place right afterwards, but at least you anticipate and wait for one of the heroes facing them, and if you want to make the stakes higher than that, one of the heroes may die on the hands of such fighter due to playing dirty, and no one last hero is fighting till the end, and maybe such event would really effect one of the main characters to reflect their disagreement..

  We have interesting character Magic Money Marcus played by Grabriel Ramiro Ruan, and he's not mentioned in the movie IMDB page..

Ok, we have a wheel that elevate the challenge, cool, I love that..

 Poor Marcus, oh god..

The movie is getting better and better, Kerchak Kong is the main interesting character now..
Around 44 minutes mark, Mantis shot one of "the sponsors"..

So Max and Wu have two vs two fight, and the sponsor of their rivals span the wheel and armed his fighters.
The Jiu-Jitsu dude has nice moves with his wolverine claws.. 
  
 Poor Jiu-Jitsu dude LOL..

Around 57 minutes the stunning villainess wait for Wu after she knew he will surrender in his last fight in protest, and she went to warn him not to do it.. She's an absolute goddess, if I'm ever going to fight in a death tournament it would be to win her over, I mean, who dare to disobey such evil goddess, I would worship her.

The relationship between Veena and Max makes zero sense LOL, it's like they developed 6 months of dating during couple of hours, it just doesn't work, especially that she is basically paying him to fight to death..

This movie is full of great characters, unfortunately they don't get much screen time, I mean, we kind of have a vampire fighter..
  
Shojin is a beast, at first I thought the character lame, but in the fights, it's like he's the totally different character, you can feel Brian Le is having fun playing the character..

Now 1 hour 12 minutes in, and we are waiting for the final fight, I should be anticipating the fight, I am not, because of the reasons I mentioned above, like I said, the movie is too focus on be closer to be a MMA sport movie, yeah, the idea of the wheel raised the stakes, but the motive isn't that strong, and the stakes aren't that high, because the contestants can survive the fight, and what the reward of the hero won? They didn't even use Sifu injury as a plot device, like he need to make a surgery and the hero have to fight to get the money fast..

Ok, the fight is gonna be more fun than I expected, Shojin got the beast serum..
  
Oh, god, so lame, like Shojin is basically giving us his sob story, and how he is a victim, like, dude, you just ate someone's dick, like literally..
 Shojin in the fights is awesome, but the character over all is very confusing.. 

The final confrontation starts around 1 hour 21 minutes.

 
 This was awesome, one of the best action movies I ever seen in years, and it's recent, the premise of the movie that everything happen indoors and basically fights in arena may discourage you, and TBH discouraged me too, so I didn't watch the movie right away, and also the first half hour made me feel the movie will be boring, but after that, it's awesome, you watch it and loose track of time, really one of the greatest action movies of the decade.



 









 



Selina Wiesmann as evil babe Mantis in Gladiator Underground

Actress Name : Han Zeyi
Character Name : Sakura Koi
Year : 2025


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.  










Han Zeyi as evil babe Sakura Koi in Reckoning Day AKA 清算

Movie Name : Mirai
Actress Name : Tanja Keller
Character Name : Yuca
Year : 2025


In 2025 movie Mirai. Actress Tanja Keller plays as villainess Yuca. Been a long time since I watched a Bollywood movie, in this movie we have the gorgeous Tanja Keller as a main villainess, so I hope the movie is fun to watch.

Ok, basically there are 9 warriors who like, one of them is Ambika Prajapati played by Shriya Saran, the 9 warriors have like superpower, whoever attain it can take over the world.

I love the songs, just amazing, and it's perfect for the theme of the movie.

It seems we also have a good male villain, Mahabhir Lama played by Manoj Kumar Manchu, which is cool, with western movies, they always either they give you a horrible male villain, or a horrible female villain, never work on both.

 One criticism I have of this movie is how they basically told us the original story of the hero, as Ambika just gave away her newborn child, and they are telling us, "She first give him away, after 24 years he comes back, he's special..", like instead of making us curious about Ambika and his origin, and how he discover his powers and make us discover the plot alongside the hero of the movie, so we can basically be more engaging with his journey till he finally achieve his destiny.

You know, that's why I believe using modern technology ruin the movie experience, when Vibha went looking for the hero, she had to read people's mind, so people who she can know where he is from people who don't want to tell her about his whereabouts, use modern tech, and all of that will be ruined, basically she will go to check social media account or get a number and call it, or even easier, DM him on social media, basically all of that will be ruined, and the final outcome would be awful, that's why sometimes it's better to just ignore modern technology when needed.

Damn, the fight scene of Mahabhir Lama around 30 minutes mark is so cool.

The hero is telling Vibha, the one is supposed to prepare him to save the world, that he loves her, like, they just met, like, when did this happen? Not only that, he want to marry her!!

   Ok, now Vibha is telling the hero about his origin story around 41 minutes, and it feels absolutely nothing as we already know his origin story, then the movie take us in flashbacks about the hero's childhood, which also feel nothing, while if we were introduced to it first, we could engage with him growing up and the difficulties he faced till this point.

 We first see Yuca around 42 minutes, like, finally!! Basically she was being trained for entire decade under, who I assume, one of the 9 warriors in order to find the whereabouts of Ambika, and once he told her about Ambika's whereabouts, she killed him as now her long undercover mission was completed.

We have another great fight of the main villain, Lama, around 55 minutes, beside the fight, it's hilarious that the actors basically saying gibberish and subtitle says (In Arabic), like, one of us doesn't speak Arabic, and it's not me LOL. The main villain gave us evil laughs tho, which is awesome.

We see our gorgeous villainess around 57 minutes, just after the fight, and she goes like "Unexpected visitor, innit?" and the good guy go like "The only unexpected visitor is death"..

While she's there a dove that hold a message from Vibha sending news of how close she is to prepare the hero, entered the temple, Yuca got hold of it, and in order to track the hero, and get her hands on the 9th scripture, she put a tracker on the dove, so she can find them.

And Indeed she manged to track Vibha to the hotel she's in, and damn, her fight scene outside the hotel is something you would never find in any western movie today..

Yuca have a confrontation with the hero right after that, Tanja Keller is absolutely amazing, that's why I love when an actor playing a villain have a background as a stunt performer, the fight scene often turn to be amazing unlike actors who don't, and in that case I prefer them to focus more on gun fights, not like direct fight scenes, not saying it can't be done with actors who lack such experiences, it's like easier and more spontaneous with stunt performers.

Anyway, Yuca defeated the hero, and was about to finish him, if not Vibha intervened and asked Yuca to spare him in exchange to surrender to her as she's the only one that can lead her to the 9th manuscript.

   Finally the cool songs back again around 1 hour 10 minutes..

The hero then went to save Vibha, yet in order to do so, he have to go across Lord Garuda territories, which something no one manged to do in 300 years.. You know that's what expect of Hollywood movies about ancient mythologies, like this movie looks way better than Clash of the Titans for example, and the music and the effects all work perfectly for the overall theme, yet, I'm not big fan of overuse of CGI, the best CGIs are the ones I don't notice it exist, but overall, even the effects of Lord Garuda looks really cool, absolutely amazing..

I wish if the movie found a way to mix between the CGI and practical effects, which would make it perfect, when using CGI alone, movies tend to darken the movie to make the human imagination to fix the imperfect work of CGI, or use a mix of practical effects and CGI so the two be mixed so you don't have enough time to detect CGI, but using CGI for a long time, make it look artificial and the viewer can feel it.

We see Yuca again in around 1 hour and 22 minutes, and damn, she's pulling out the heroine's nails, like damn, it looks so painful..

Around 1 hour 29 minutes, our gorgeous villainess took the heroine to meet Lama, and she doesn't like his ways, she told him, "God is the one who mercies and treats everyone equally", that's a very communist god!!

Lama gave us his original story, it turns out this isn't his peak villainy, apparently now he tuned his villainy down. Like I thought they will go, well, he's not a villain, but the little brat burned the entire village, like, he is actually evil, it was like "They treated me badly, well, didn't end up good for them" LOL. 

Around 1 hour 36 minutes, the stunning villainess face the hero again for the last time, after she was sent by the main villain with a new weapon to end him once and for all.

Ok, now let's talk about some things I found interesting about the movie, I like how Yuca sent her teacher bye bye after a decade of being a student of him till he gave her the information she wanted, It's like what I said about the relation between the villain and the hero in What villains teach us? it's kind of reversed because usually heroes are the one who win, and usually you get one hero with multiple villains, yet, in this movie the main heroes outnumber the main villains, you basically get two main villains, Yuca and Lama, the rest of villains kind of nameless, while the heroes, there are tons of them, you can also see such relation with Lama basically being taught by the heroes, the nine warriors, and you can see the books symbolizing that, and as I said in the post, when the teacher doesn't have anything to teach, either they became a student or leave the class, so, either the nine warriors to be under Lama's control, or they leave, historically all great stories always have multiple meanings, like literal and metaphorical, and that's what I see in this movie, like, you can basically interpret Lama's destroying the village as him destroying the idea of a village that act in a certain way, and so on.. The movie as a whole was absolutely awesome, and the final battle with the music, the fights, the stakes, the gods, and everything, like ending the movie on the highest point is absolutely amazing.

I wish if we got more scenes of Yuca, yet I'm so happy to see Tanja Keller for the first time playing a role where she actually deliver lines, I'm so grateful to that, and I really hope to see her again in another movie, that was awesome, Tanja Keller is amazing 🔥🔥🔥. 






Tanja Keller as evil babe Yuca in Mirai

Movie Name : Unbound
Actress Name : Jessica Ferguson
Character Name : Selene Voss
Year : 2025


In 2025 movie Unbound. Actress Jessica Ferguson plays as villainess Selene Voss. I know it's a short film, but god, every frame she's in is just a gift, incredibly gorgeous and merciless villainess 😍😍😍.  









 

Jessica Ferguson as evil babe Selene Voss in Unbound

Movie Name : Wages of Sin
Character Name : Domino, Allison and Dakota
Year : 2025


In 2025 movie Wages of Sin. Actresses Meredith VanCuyk, Caroline Hallum and Sophie Blondin play as female villains Domino, Allison and Dakota.

The first villainess we see is Dakota, she's basically a corrupt cop on the payroll of Rossi, the first thing she did was shooting the hero's friend and fabricate evidence against him..

We then see our villainess Allison played by Caroline Hallum, Allison apparently the girlfriend of a drug lord.

We then see Danny Trejo playing the hitman Jimmy, I really love seeing this guy on screen...

We finally see our evil goddess, Domino, taking sips of her drink, her beauty is breathtaking, just her sitting on the chair, even doing nothing, it feels like you are in the presence of an ancient goddess worshiped by humanity and traveled in time in order for us to get a glimpse of her glamour.

We then see our villainess Allison with her partner Prince having a meeting with Ramsey, when Ramsey started to annoy them, the stunning villainess was about to use her gun, only to be stopped by her partner.

Thomas Blackwell, the hero, then go after the lovely couple with his car, but Prince and his gang are ready for them, they prepare their weapons to fight, yet Prince and his gang including the gorgeous Allison failed to take down Blackwell, and all of them died in the shootout.

Both Allison and Prince died and I really still want to see them, and these are good characters, yeah, you really want to see them more, but it's better for character to die and still want to see them more, than to live and you can't stand seeing them on screen, that's what a good character is, and because there are two other evil babes, it would be a bad choice if they kept all of them till the end of the movie, so they basically had to make an early confrontation with at least one of them.

We then see the stunning Domino playing chess, she's so perfect 😍😍😍.. There are no words that can describe how beautiful Domino is, like, how she's taller than her boss and how hypnotizing she is while walking next to him, looking taller than him, leaving you stunned by her beauty that you can't see or think about anything in the world except her beauty, all troubles in life being forgotten for a moment just by seeing such stunning villainess.

Rossi, our villainess boss, meet with his henchmen, expressing how the death of Prince, could lead to the collapse of his organization.

 Our villainess then join the corrupt cops in a raid on Prince's gang, killing everyone and taking down the competition, for the corrupt cops, now they manged to pretend they are effectively fighting crime, and for Rossi, his empire can now be a little bigger.

I can't believe Danny Trejo is like 80, and the man still got it, he still look badass, like, he's one of the greatest actors, and I love seeing him in movies, for me, Danny Trejo is Hollywood and Hollywood is Danny Trejo.

Dakota, the gorgeous corrupt cop, and our third villainess in the movie, go after Blackwell, track his car into a motel, little did she know that Blackwell was expecting them and had his gun ready for a gun fight. 

After being shot, his partner tried to save her, but the wound was fatal, and nothing he can do to save our beloved villainess now :(.

Driven by anger he kept shooting at Blackwell, not fearing life, while Blackwell calmly waiting for his chance and took the shot..

Now it's Rossi and Domino to go after Blackwell.. Previously Rossi hired Jimmy played by Danny Trejo to go after the hero, so Jimmy started to investigate by his own ways, torturing a guy till he gave him the true name of Blackwell, Henry Donovan.

After knowing the true name of the undercover cop, Jimmy sent it in a message to Rossi, now Rossi have a privilege over Blackwell..

Now, Rossi decides to take extreme measures to get rid of the hero, he sits down with a cop on his payroll, Ramsey, and told him "Either you get rid of Blackwell in 24 hours, or I get rid of you", Ramsey didn't live long to even try to get rid of  Blackwell, as Blackwell was already waiting for him.

Meanwhile, uncle Jimmy finally manged to find Blackwell's family, only him manged to think out of the box to reach this far.

After Jimmy found Blackwell's home, he got a call from, our goddess, Domino, she asked him "Did you kill him?", and he told her it's just a matter of time, unfortunately for Jimmy, Blackwell was already waiting for him in the car 💔💔.  

With uncle Jimmy dying at the hands of the hero, Rossi gave orders for everyone in his criminal empire to go after Blackwell, he have to be stopped no matter what, which would lead to the final confrontation between the stunning villlainess and the hero.

I refuse to believe there's a woman who is more beautiful than Domino, I swear, every time I see her onscreen, I'm breathless, she's so gorgeous, and even when she's on screen, I still want to see her more, that's why the character of a henchwoman is the greatest character in cinema, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is absolutely in love, and I mean love with Domino, like, within this experience she's the most beautiful woman in the world, I would die for her, I would do anything for her, love you, Domino 💘💘💘. 

Don't forget to check the actress IMDB page, she has behind the scene photos from the movie.








  


 


Meredith VanCuyk, Caroline Hallum and Sophie Blondin as evil babes Domino, Allison and Dakota in Wages of Sin

Movie Name : La Pantera 3
Actress Name : Mich Torres Sagaz
Character Name : Margaret
Year : 2025


In 2025 movie La Pantera 3. Actress Mich Torres Sagaz plays as villainess Margaret.

The movie doesn't waste time, it starts with the protagonist shooting with her machine gun, it's like, if this what people want, it's what people will get LOL.. Even the guns bleeds when being shot, you don't have such technology in other movies..

I'm laughing, like the cop caught the bad guy, and accusing him with like 10 random crimes, and the other guy was like "You are not going to read the whole bible to him", like exactly!!

Ok, Is the female protagonist the girlfriend of the male protagonist? Do I have to watch the other to movies to understand this one?

 Another gun fight in a less than 10 minutes, god, this is great LOL..

I never laughed in my life on gunfights like I did with this movie, this is gold.

I think the villainess appear in the second gun fight around 8 minutes mark, not sure tho.

After our villainess Margaret AKA Cat manged to escape custody, now she goes after the one who put her in prison in the first place, The Panther, the vigilante hero who goes after bad guys, and went after Margaret and her father.

Ok, the male and female protagonist are married in the movie, like, I would believe they are actually married in real life, these movies feel so personal, like family and friends having fun and making a movie, which is kind of awesome TBH..

  In the movie there are christian iconography everywhere, which gives like a personified character to the household itself, it's different from any western shows where everything is restricted, houses are very minimized, free of any characteristic, I don't even they put paints or things that can hint on artistic taste of the house, which make these sets feel bland and soulless.. 

For example, if the residents of the house are like teens, you expect to see characteristics that go with that, which would be different from a family which have a different characteristics, like let's say we have a character of a Chinese police officer, of course you can make the home like any other home, but what if you want to show their job is connected to their character, what if want to show that they see themselves servant of the people not just a job, but identity and loyalty to certain ideals? In this case you can have like small details, like a portray of Mao or something, certain books that shape the way they see life and so on, the same thing with a cop in a western country, they can have books like The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and so on..

 Our gorgeous villainess didn't waste time, and went after the cop who put her behind bar, as he went home, a surprise was waiting him, his wife wasn't home, he called her phone and it wasn't his wife on the other line, but our stunning villainess answered him instead, telling him, it's not your wife, it's me Cat. The cop couldn't believe it, as she's supposed to be behind bars, but Cat told him, that her father rescued her, and now she's thirsty for revenge.

Margaret told the cop, there's a way to save your wife, give us the panther, and you get back your wife in return.

I swear, the cop's name is lost in translation, I don't know what his name is..

So, the cop met with The Panther couple, and he told them that his wife was kidnapped.

We see our villainess again around 36 minutes, waiting for the heroes to show up, meanwhile, La Pantera and his wife Fernanda walked into our villainess trap.

The gun fights in this movie are awesome, it's so absurd and I love it, that's a comedy. One of the goons of Margaret is also a villainess, she's not named, she only appeared for like half minute.

I mean, Margaret really need to work on her traps tactics, like she made a trap for the heroes and it ended up with most of her men dead, it's like if the heroes made a trap for her men LOL..

I swear, the fight scenes in this movie, beside like the gun fight is actually better than most fight scenes in modern western movies, like, you can see they are trying, which I appreciate..

After the trap failed, Margaret got angry at the cop, he didn't deliver what he promised, so the cop provided Margaret with more information to help her get La Pantera family, he told Margaret that they have a daughter, and they can use that as advantage.

La Pantera family knew about Margaret plan, so they decided to act first, attacking Margaret guys, taking one of them as a hostage, and setting a trap for her men, eventually around 1 hour and 7 minutes, they manged to free Emilio's wife, and our stunning villainess manged to escape the raid with a zipline that took her directly into the escape car.

Around 1 hour and 18 minutes, we have another gun fight between our gorgeous villainess and her men and the good guys, again our villainess and her men were defeated fled with her right hand man Yair, like the poor babe never win, even when she's the one making the trap for the good guys, even her dad died in the last trap she made, poor thing LOL.

Now our villainess preparing for the final confrontation, calling for reinforcement to get rid of La Pantera family once and for all and build her criminal empire.

The final fight starts around 1 hour and 30 minutes..

God damn, this movie made me laugh a lot, like I really recommend watching it with friends..

You can clearly see that they put a lot of efforts making the movie with so little they have, but it's really fun, it's different from anything from the west, it's not fake like western movies, and I don't mean it's like The Godfather level of acting or anything, the actors themselves aren't fake, they are just people like us having fun, making an action movie, and you can feel that, and if you see it that way, you will have so much fun watching it, and of course our villainess Cat is extremely stunning.. I really loved this movie and had so much fun watching it 🔥🔥🔥. 

 










Mich Torres Sagaz as evil babe Margaret in La Pantera 3

Movie Name : Battle of the Wolf
Actress Name : Luan Mingyuan and Chen Fei
Character Name : Scarlet Yunying and Kala
Year : 2025


In 2025 movie Battle of the Wolf. Actresses Luan Mingyuan and Chen Fei play as female villains Scarlet Yunying and Kala.

A Chinese action movie, and it's 1 hour 30 minutes, so hope it's not unnecessarily bloated and fun to watch, the movie premise is probably similar to High Forces.

The movie break the pacing and take us into a flashback of former fight of the protagonist, which I really don't like, the pacing actually matters, and the idea they keep forcing other stories in these movie, I really don't like that, like instead of focusing on the situation and the plane and keep us exploring the villains according to what they say and reveal over time in the movie, and introduce the target they are after, the movie take us into irrelevant theme, with flashback confrontation and connect both themes, and also doing it break the pacing, like you have a quite pacing with the passengers being onboard of the plane, then take us back into a fight scene, which kills the pacing of the movie, I guess it has something to do with how Chinese audiences may tune out of the movie if it's not introduced with a fight scene, as such scene confirm it's an action movie to them and keep them interested, but in this case, it break the pacing of the movie. 

Ok, the movie apparently explaining to us why the protagonist was in handcuffs, it still kill the pacing of the movie, such backstory can be introduced way better, like imagine this scenario, the protagonist with a female protagonist are together hiding from the villains, she's nervous and in fear that the villains would find them, but at the same time curious about how the protagonist ended up in cuffs, so she hesitantly ask him "How did you end up.. You know..", he replies "You mean, in cuffs?", then give her the backstories, that way it would serve the drama better.. Also by giving us the backstory this early, it destroyed any mystery about the character, which isn't a good thing, now till the end of the movie, the protagonist being in cuffs doesn't keep me interested or curious.

Anyway we first see our gorgeous villainess around 6 minute time mark breaking into the airport with other villains who call themselves The Wild Wolf.

Ok, the movie is introducing us to the villains so we don't get confused, and I kind of like it, because in many movies some characters are either rarely called by the name, or even their name is being lost in translation.

And the movie introduce us to our first villainess, Purple wolf aka Purple Kala, a member of the evil organization of The Wild Wolf.

We have a flashback, and I laughed a lot than I should, like the movie go back to something happened 6 years ago and the villains shot some guy and I don't care, it looked funny.

We have David Torok playing Black Wolf AKA Wizard, I really hope he's fun in the movie.. 


We see our villainess again around 15 minutes, celebrating taking over the plane with a drink.

Ok, some passenger lost conscious and the villains found a doctor for him afterwards, like, in the start of the movie one of the villains shot flight attendant to show how merciless they are, which was too early in my opinion, if it was me, I wouldn't make them shoot anyone this early, think about it, they are villains not idiots, doing it at the start would make people to panic, but once they take over, it would serve a dramatic purpose, it would be shocking, and it would show how heartless they are, again it's the pacing.

Around 20 minutes mark, Kala started to set explosive on the plane, and preparing parachutes, so probably planning to destroy the plane and jump, after kidnapping their target Chen Guoxian..

The movie show us the true target of The Wild Wolf organization, their plane after all was to kidnap Chen Guoxian, a brilliant scientist working on the quantum communication system, and after they get him, they can jump from the plane, take the scientific research with them, and make it look as the plane had an accident, with the research in their hands, they can earn tons of money from it.

The villains took a passenger who they mistakenly thought him to be Chen Guoxian, yet after investigation, he turned out to be someone else.

Around 39 minutes Kala join Green wolf to go after the hero who have been causing so much trouble and ruining their evil plans.

We see the final fight of  Purple wolf around 42 minute mark..

Now, let's keep watching..

Black Wolf have a good fight around 45 minutes, ended stupidly LOL..

Basically the hero manged to capture the two villains who survived, yet, the evil organization had a secret weapon, what the hero didn't know, there's another villainess, Scarlet Yunying AKA Red Wolf who kept herself under rader in case their plans went south, and freed the other two main villain.

 Red Wolf isn't like any other villain, she's the wolf team strategist, she kept monitoring everything happening till now, and gave no reason for the hero to suspect her, studying the hero, knowing his weaknesses, and when the time was right, she used all the info she collected in her favor, proving to be one of the most effect villain among them all.

In secret she have been sending singles to the team on which target they go after and which passenger represent the highest risk for their plans..


Ok, now the movie problems..

1- The pacing in the movie is off, it's unorganized and messy.

2- The movie keep jumping from a story line to another, it's like the movie trying to make the villains are being the villains of multiple movies in the same movies, it's like the movie can't contain itself in a single story, so it goes back and forth with flashbacks, as if it's a checklist of not just having them the bad guys of the story, but every other possible story, which feels forced, like, why not just make them the villains in a plane movie, why enforcing many irrelevant plots and over complicate things.

3- Realism, the fight scenes in the movie feel so limited because the movie is trying to stick to realism, the movie thinking "Well, they are in a plane, so the fights in tight places.", and TBH, the fight scenes don't look great and repetitive, like why we don't have a fight in a room, with not so tight place if needed?! No one is forcing the movie to be restricted with the tight places of the plane, and it can ignore and unrestrict itself from it if needed, if a fight scene needed a space, even if it doesn't make sense, give a space for the fight scene and threw realism in the trash, as realism only matters when it serve the movie not when it weight it down.

4- There's not enough stakes, the movie keep trying to give a motive and unable to give a motive within the same story, so, it always try to enforce multiple stories to make up for that, while it could've been avoided, like I said, before, like how the hero being stuck with the heroine, while the villains looking for them, the movie could've made the scientist the villains are looking for a female scientist, played by Zina Blahusova or make her like ambassador or some big foreign official, and make the contrast, a big foreign official hiding from the bad guys, and stuck with some protagonist with a criminal record, and she's nervous while hiding, and also can't trust the only guy who is protecting her, and over time they build their trust, that's a stake, that's a goal, and the viewer would understand what the stakes are, instead of making the stakes in the movie around other stories from the past, making the movie unfocused.


I'm not saying the movie is bad in anyway, I really enjoyed it, it just could've been way much better, especially with the fight scenes, like many of the actors who played the villains in the movie are actually champions in real life, and you can see how the characters they played were so underused because the movie restrict itself with narrow spaces to achieve realism..

 






 


 


 


   

Luan Mingyuan and Chen Fei as evil babes Scarlet Yunying and Kala in Battle of the Wolf

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