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Cat (Almen Wong) is Sister Chin's (Chong Wing) best hitwoman, and not
only does she kill her target with accuracy and elegance, she also seems
to never have any problems evading the police. Only one cop, John (Michael
Wong) seems to be determined to track her down, but while he is still out
trailing her, she breaks into his appartment, just for fun. Then though
Cat is hired for the same hit her ex lover and fiercest enemy Na Chuen
(Ben Lam) and his sidekick Chiang Hwa (Lowell Chick) are also hired for,
and when the two of them start to take aim at her, it becomes more and
more clear her employer Mr Tsui (Ching Siu-Lung) wants to get rid of her -
and Na Chuen and Chiang Hwa almost succeed in killing her, too, and she
only just makes it to a safe haven ... of all places John's appartment.
Instead of doing his job and arresting her, John nurses Cat back to help
and lets her use his appartment as hideout. The two soon fall in love,
too, and decide to - at least temporarily - leave their lives behind and
enjoy a trip to the open sea on a yacht. However, John's colleagues from
the police have soon caught up with the two and Cat gets arrested - and
she thinks John has betrayed her (which is not true). Of course, Cat
manages to escape, and of course, she wants to have her revenge on John,
but when she meets him eye to eye, she just can't kill him ... Ultimately,
Cat goes after Mr Tsui, Sister Chin and Na Chuen, but when she has tracked
the three of them down, she finds herself outnumbered, and only because
John hasnt given up on her and comes to the rescue is her life saved and
the tide turned. Cat and John manage to defeat and kill Sister Chin and Na
Chuen, but Cat gets a hold on Mr Tsui only when the police arrives - and
ultimately both their bodies get riddled with bullets from the cops'
machine guns ... The story of The Huntress: Her Name is Cat
might sound fairly interesting, even if stories like this are a dime a
dozen in Hong Kong cinema, yet brought to the screen, there have rarely
been less interesting variations on the theme. Why? Because The
Huntress: Her Name is Cat is 100% style over substance, and to such an
extent that one can't help but not identify with any of the
on-screen goings-on: All the action scenes are spliced up into fashionable
rapid fire editing that it frequently becomes impossible to figure out
what has just happened, many of the more quiet scenes look as if the
actors and especially actresses were walking a runway at a fashion show,
the extended sequence on the yacht looks like a tourism ad, and several
other scenes are shot and edited like music video clips without any rhyme
or reason. All of this gives the movie a good, elaborate look of
course, but there's literally nothing in the film to give the look any
substance ...
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