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  Review by Ian West ★★★ 2

  Kung fu, bikini drug gangs, car chases, nudity, boat chases... sloppy as fuck but raunchy, absurd, and bonkers enough to be enjoyable. If ‘in the zone’ politzio mode Lenzi directed this it would be a 5/5

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  Review by SubToretto ★★★½ 2

  Doesn’t meet the seemingly obvious criteria of that title until the last 20 minutes, and even then its a barely-registered footnote. However, this is a petty complaint as Sondra Currie is all kinds of awesome all on her own.

  #27/95 of Summer of Trash 2023

  Watch a movie from Mill Creek's 200-Movie Cult Cinema boxed set

  Straight away we are witness to her power as she uses her Awkarate (Awkward Karate) to thwart a hallway’s worth of rampaging prisoners trying to escape. She’s then brought into a special task force to take down a female criminal ring run by an old lady with a muscled-bumpkin henchman/lover .

  This isn’t as gloriously fun as it sounds as we don’t see any…

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  Review by Gregor Kreyca ★★★

  Goofy 70’s exploitation fun with some hot chicks kicking some serious ass. I dig it, but it’s too long. Like, 20 minutes too long. That’s unfortunate because Sondra Currie and Jeannie Bell make a great team and some of the (karate) action is surprisingly decent. But this really could have used some tighter editing. Still, fans of tamer exploitation movies that lean to the sillier side should have a fairly good time with Policewomen. All in all, I enjoyed my watch.

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  Review by AnonymousAndy ★★★½ 2

  Policewomen aka ACAB: All Cops Are Babes

  Well, at least one is.

  "So you need a woman to go undercover?"

  "Yeah. Or under the covers."

  Like porn, exploitation film is always at its best when the performers look like they're having fun. In the case of Policewomen, that fun is not only present and accounted for, but it also reached across the screen and had me grinning and chuckling to my stupid self on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Whenever I pick up one of these drive-in/grindhouse/cult classic budget DVDs, this is exactly the sort of film I'm looking for (and rarely get). You don't have to have the strongest production value or performances, but give me a light sense of…

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  Review by deMicha ★★

  SchleFaZ Zeit

  Deutscher Titel:
  Sadomona - Insel der teuflischen Frauen

  Lacy Bond, Spezialagentin der Polizei, soll sich in eine Verbrecherorganisation auf der Insel Catalina einschmuggeln. Diese besteht nur aus Frauen, geleitet von einer 70-Jährigen Dame.

  Trashiger Krimiaction/"Martial-Arts" Film aus den USA von 1974, der doch seinen eigenen Unterhaltungswert hat. Geboten wird uns hier einiges absurdes, von den Charakteren über die Action bis zu Szenen und Dialogen in der Handlung. Wenn man weiß was man da schaut kann man schon seinen Spass haben.

  Kalkofen und Rütten begleiten uns in ihrer eigenen Art durch den Film.

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  Review by Adrian 🥐☕ ★★★½

  L. Frost #2 --- Policewomen is a fun time. Sondra Currie is assigned to a case that involves gold smuggling. The suspect is a 70-year-old lady named Maude. Currie's character first has to prove to her male counterparts that she is worthy of the job. Of course, all of them are being total misogynistic assholes about it. But she knows how to deal with them which leads to some awesome verbal fights.

  She's a total badass throughout the whole movie. Doing karate, chasing cars, hijacking vehicles, jumping between transporters and boats, you name it. I'm super happy that I checked this out after rediscovering her in Mama's Dirty Girls yesterday. She's so cool.

  Too bad the movie has some pacing issues. It felt overly ambitious and would've worked better as an 80 to 90-minute movie (it says 90 minutes on here but the version I've watched went close to 100).

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  Review by Monster_Groupie ★★½

  Merry SchleFaZ liebe Scheißfilm-Wichtel 2/4:

  Wie klingt ein deutscher Filmtitel, der einem eine Insel voller gewalttätiger Frauen verspricht, man am Ende aber nur einen billigen James Bond-Abklatsch bekommt, anstatt mit Womanizer eben mit einer neunmalklugen Hausfrau/Gefängniswärterin/Kung-Fu-Expertin, die sich der Männerwelt mit Händen und Füßen entgegenhampelt?
  Eigentlich auch ziemlich lustig, oder... fand ich auch!

  Dabei braucht man die Insel gar nicht so dringend, da die Toy-Boy-geile Granny Maude sich eine Knastschwestern-Bande, bestehend aus den erlesensten und knackigsten Crime-Babes westwärts des Mississippi zusammengestellt hat, die für sie global allerlei Verbrechen verüben!
  Das gilt es natürlich zu verhindern, weswegen Lizzy Bond, die voll-lizensierte Schwester von James (kein Zweifel, die selben Gene!) zusammen mit ein paar männlichen Nullnummern auf den Fall angesetzt wird!

  Zwischendurch…

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  Review by André Hecker ★★

  Trash der unterhaltsamen Sorte. Ein Film, gedreht von einem Mann, mit dem Feminismusverständnis der 70er. Da werden erst Machos von einer schlagfertigen Polizistin vermöbelt, ehe sie dann ein Techtelmechtel mit dem Oberproll eingeht. Story, Inszenierung und Dialoge sind eine Katastrophe, aber immer wieder sorgen abstruse Szenen für saftige Lacher. Wenn zum Beispiel im Hintergrund eines Gesprächs ein Tennis-Match stattfinden soll, in der gesamten Szene aber nicht ein Ball gespielt wird. Oder eine Telefonzellenszene, die von außen gefilmt wird und man zwar jemanden darin über Minuten sprechen sieht, aber nichts hört. Von den unbeholfenen Action-Szenen fang ich gar nicht erst an. Policewomen ist mies, völlig aus der Zeit gefallen und macht hinten und vorne keinen Sinn. Aber auf der Spaß-Skala geht…

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  Review by LordSlaw ★★★

  Policewomen is a fun, trashy, cops-'n'-robbers drive-in exploitation flick in which spectacularly intense karate-proficient lady cop Lacy Bond, played by gorgeously redheaded Sondra Currie, and her team go undercover to infiltrate and take down an all-girl gang of gold smugglers, one of whom is played by super-cool, super-foxy Jeannie Bell, October 1969 Playboy Playmate and T.N.T. Jackson herself.

  There's high-kick karate action, car and boat chases, fisticuffs and gunplay, and plenty of skin on display. Nary a scene goes by without someone wearing a bikini or less appearing onscreen. And we get to see a lot of the pubic bulge of a shorts-wearing, bicep-curling slab of beefcake.

  Elizabeth Stuart plays Maude, the septuagenarian leader of the gold-smugglers, and she delivers…

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  Review by Loris98 ★½ 3

  Puuuh ich kann mich nichtmal an die Story erinnern 🍺🍻😅

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  Review by Ira Brooker ★★½

  Bad-ass karate cop Sondra Currie brushes aside institutional sexism and works her way into an undercover gambit to take down an all-female drug smuggling ring led by a vicious octogenarian and her body-builder boyfriend.

  This is part of that odd strain of '70s trash flicks that wrapped themselves in a veneer of female empowerment while simultaneously coming off as somehow more sexist than their overtly misogynist counterparts. (They're almost always written and directed by dudes, go figure.) It's longer than it ought to be, the acting and directing wouldn't be out of place in a prime-time Aaron Spelling time-waster, and you can practically feel the fight choreographer sighing and shrugging after every punch-up. Still, this is passable fun if you…

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  Review by Adam Loves Bad Movies ★★

  I’m just so glad to be out of the biker movie slump of this 200 movie box set. Femsploitation nonsense is definitely better.