Girls Fight Tonite....but not for very long. Personally I can't imagine that the crowd for a "live street fighting" event would go wild after witnessing fights that last under a minute. Perhaps that's why the "crowds" in this movie are limited to about a dozen people. There is some half-decent fighting here, however it is usually obscured by terrible editing and a camera that seems to miss most of the hits! I could live with the shoddy production values, the inexperienced acting (for many cast members, this was the first and so far only credit), the lame dialogue, etc. IF the fight scenes delivered the goods. Sadly, they don't. * out of 4.
4 Reviews
This is not good
ptb19657 July 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I rented the DVD thinking it would provide some mindless entertainment. Mindless only begins to describe this movie. The acting is bad, the fight choreography is horrible, the directing is non-existent and the story is absolutely inane. Maxine loses her job and then 2 minutes later decides to get into a street fight for cash. Yeah, sure, that's plausible. It goes downhill from there.
Anyway, I didn't rent the movie for the story, I was interested in the fight sequences. It appears the actors all spent less than one day at a martial arts studio preparing for the role and didn't remember a darn thing. The motions were so slow, deliberate and forced that the fights were probably the most unexciting part of the movie. A third-rate pro wresting show provides better choreography than this drivel. Finally I had enough and watched the last 1/3 of the movie on fast forward. Didn't miss a thing.
Anyway, I didn't rent the movie for the story, I was interested in the fight sequences. It appears the actors all spent less than one day at a martial arts studio preparing for the role and didn't remember a darn thing. The motions were so slow, deliberate and forced that the fights were probably the most unexciting part of the movie. A third-rate pro wresting show provides better choreography than this drivel. Finally I had enough and watched the last 1/3 of the movie on fast forward. Didn't miss a thing.
Sub-par, low-budget 'fight' film best ignored by both fight fans & the curious alike
magic8ball21123 February 2014
Warning: Spoilers
I came across the movie at a local used DVD movie joint. As a fan of female fighting I've seen plenty of these 'women's underground fighting' themed flicks from "Pushed to the Limit" to "Bare Knuckles" to "Fight Night". Granted, when plenty of films in the genre seem inspired by Van Damme films like "Bloodsport" & "Lionheart" (storywise & acting-wise) you figure if the actual story is lame at least the fights will be the payoff. Unfortunately, while the story was, like the acting, mighty lame, the fight sequences were bad enough to make the action in "Carmen Electra's Nude Women's Wrestling League" look downright spectacularly realistic! NOTE: some spoilers follow but they're vague enough so as to not give too much plot (what little of it there is) away.
The earliest tipoff to the quality of fight choreography you're in for occurs just a few minutes into the film, when the lead character gets involved in a bar fight. You can almost imagine, watching the sequence, that she & her fellow actors got in about 15 minutes of choreography before the director yelled 'Action!'.
To their credit the 'Girls' in the title seem, from what 'fighting' they do, like experienced pro dancers, w/ the slim bodies & looks to match. But when they actually 'fight', the fights basically consist of the girls bouncing back & forth on alternating feet, circling each other in front of 10-15 half-enthused people (probably film crew!), before awkwardly launching with basic punches. Nothing outside of what you'd probably see on Day 1 of a basic martial arts class at, say, the YMCA, and NOWHERE as good as what you've likely seen in other, better, fight films! That the various matches go no longer than a minute & a half is telling of their quality.
The story tries to generate the obligatory friction between the lead character & the other fighters, but it never becomes any harsher than the average catty repartee in any old Ally McBeal episode! Worse yet, the fighters insinuate a major opponent in the main character's future. Yet when that fight does, naturally, come, the payoff is so underwhelming.
Overall, from the high school film class production values to the bad acting to (most criminally for a fight film) the bad fight choreography, it's no surprise that the film was released under one name but is buried in IMDb under another! If you're a fan of fight films, skip it. A fan or 2 of women's fetish fighting might find it of some use, but even as a fan of that genre I still felt ripped off!
The earliest tipoff to the quality of fight choreography you're in for occurs just a few minutes into the film, when the lead character gets involved in a bar fight. You can almost imagine, watching the sequence, that she & her fellow actors got in about 15 minutes of choreography before the director yelled 'Action!'.
To their credit the 'Girls' in the title seem, from what 'fighting' they do, like experienced pro dancers, w/ the slim bodies & looks to match. But when they actually 'fight', the fights basically consist of the girls bouncing back & forth on alternating feet, circling each other in front of 10-15 half-enthused people (probably film crew!), before awkwardly launching with basic punches. Nothing outside of what you'd probably see on Day 1 of a basic martial arts class at, say, the YMCA, and NOWHERE as good as what you've likely seen in other, better, fight films! That the various matches go no longer than a minute & a half is telling of their quality.
The story tries to generate the obligatory friction between the lead character & the other fighters, but it never becomes any harsher than the average catty repartee in any old Ally McBeal episode! Worse yet, the fighters insinuate a major opponent in the main character's future. Yet when that fight does, naturally, come, the payoff is so underwhelming.
Overall, from the high school film class production values to the bad acting to (most criminally for a fight film) the bad fight choreography, it's no surprise that the film was released under one name but is buried in IMDb under another! If you're a fan of fight films, skip it. A fan or 2 of women's fetish fighting might find it of some use, but even as a fan of that genre I still felt ripped off!
Many titles, many apparent reworkings...
bhopalaz6 February 2003
Let me start off by saying that I own this movie (on DVD no less!). Yes, I found out through a friend that a girl I went to high school with was starring in this. Well, it was all I could do to resist buying it on Amazon, but I figured where else am I going to find it? Needless to say, I could not resist.
Was I disappointed by this lower-end-of-B-cinema, disjointed, reworked, by-the-numbers, awkwardly-paced outing? I dunno, a girl I went to high school with was in it. Does that justify me parting with $23? What did I expect anyway?
Oh yeah, it may also go by any number of titles including (but not exclusive to) `Girls Fight Tonite.'
Was I disappointed by this lower-end-of-B-cinema, disjointed, reworked, by-the-numbers, awkwardly-paced outing? I dunno, a girl I went to high school with was in it. Does that justify me parting with $23? What did I expect anyway?
Oh yeah, it may also go by any number of titles including (but not exclusive to) `Girls Fight Tonite.'
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