Up until the somewhat under-heralded release of low-budget Karen Sheperd-starring chop-schlocky sensation 'Terminator Woman', brooding, broad-shouldered, B-movie villain par excellence Michel Qissi was better known as the towering, pony-tailed tibia-thrashing Muay Thai champion Tong Po, and the charismatically evil Qissi creates another memorable martial arts maniac in the scar-faced guise of merciless mobster Alex Gatelee, a wealthy, wholly corrupt businessman whose myriad larcenies include gold smuggling and human trafficking. Now desperate to retrieve his stolen gold bullion Gatelee kidnaps Julie (Karen Sheperd) one of the tough Kung Fu-fantastic cops hot on his trail, a crude gambit which proves injudicious as Julie is infinitely more resourceful than Gatelee's lumpen thugs, and her equally determined, punch-happy partner Jay (Jerry Trimble) being no less resolute! Atmospherically set in a dusty, sun-hazed African locale, the talented polymath Qissi equips himself remarkably well as actor/director/fight-coordinator, and while the script is rarely better than prosaic, the suitably gruff-voiced Trimble & sinuous Sheperd are likeable, boisterously bantering, head-knocking,high-kicking heroes, both clearly capable screen-fighters, and Qissi maintains good energy throughout, orchestrating an edifying number of kinetic fight scenes, Gung ho gun battles and a suitably blood-thirsty climax, wherein agile karate cops Karen Sheperd and Jerry Trimble really get to strut their red-hot pugilistic stuff, and capable composer Bruce Cassidy's bouncy score adds some additional pep to the fabulous fist-fighting ferocity! Fans of PM Entertainment, 90s-era Steven Seagal and Andy Sidaris should certainly make the effort to seek lost 90s action gem 'Terminator Woman' out.
'Legendary 'Kick Boxer' icon Michel Qissi's chop-schlocky skull-smasher 'Terminator Woman' is a triumphantly trashy, bone-crunchingly blissful B-Movie delight!' - Tor Bronson / 'The Heroic Blood Shed'
'Head-turningly hard-bodied, head-knocking, karate-kicking cooze Karen Sheperd can whoop my pizza dough-soft, bad movie-watching ass ANY day of the week!' - Goosey Lucy / Buxom Bloodfiends.
