Prophecy of Eve (Amazon)
Written, Directed, Produced, Fellatio'd, and Ass-Plugged by one guy in his quest to make his dream film. This has "B-Movie" written all over it, if only it could achieve such quality. Oh, and the lead character is also one of the producers. Go figure.
So what runs a little over an hour is apparently the opening part of what was hoped to be a series of films, as the movie closes with "To Be Continued..." not that you couldn't see it coming throughout the film with a major political figure with no real role in this film being referenced several times and a few other obvious foreshadowing items. The story takes place in "Angel City", I'll let you guess where it is filmed. But let's move to the cast, shall we? All major roles are played by Asian Americans (at least there is no voice dubbing). There are what appear to be Philipino actors filling in the minor roles with additional Asian Americans. And all the really bad guys are white males. Subtle messaging much? There is one good cop, an Ice-T wannabe called "Officer Black". Oi....and can these guys act? I didn't see much acting. There were a few sword fights, though. The first was in a dojo with the good guys practicing, and they obviously hired in guys from an actual dojo that can use the weapons for demonstration as they can hardly carry a line. Our lead character has a swordfight with four bad guys, because who brings guns to a knife fight? Of course she kicks their asses, but you can't tell during the fight as the slow-mo and angle changes are stacked atop on another to hide the fact that the actress can't actually fight - you have to take her ass kicking prowess from the way guy roll on the ground afterward, except for the one guy with the ol sword under the arm trick as he's stabbed to death.
The acting is bad. The dialogue is bad. The filming is a little better but still bad. The special effects are bad (red eyes so you know when someone is a bad guy, green if they are good). The story is bad in that it tries too hard to lay groundwork for follow up films that will never get made rather than building this film into something to generate money and interest for follow up films.
Run from this film. Run. 2/10 as I'm not into Asian American chicks, but they probably would have been really worth watching in a porn film. No boobs were even hinted at in this film.