Right up to the very end! It was like, enough already.
I bought this movie based on a few things: The trailer (which conveys one thing, when in actuality it's something else entirely), the seemingly promised ass-kicking ladies (see: trailer, synopsis, cover art, title, etc.), and, I watched this documentary all about these crazy exploitation movies produced by Americans, and made in the Philippines in the 1970's, and it was one wild ride. I think this trailer was an extra on that very DVD.
I don't know what to rate a movie that doesn't meet any of my expectations. Is there a good movie in here somewhere? I don't know, I was kind of distracted. First of all, this is not an expoitation picture, or even a women-in-prison flick, where part of it takes place. No, it's a... FARCE. You heard me. Everybody's after a suitcase that contains $1 million American dollars. Hell, even Sid Haig plays some wacky bandito.
It's played pretty light (though the Savage Sisters revolution dwindles to 2 by the 15-minute mark at the hands of an ambush and firing squad), I think it's meant to be a comedy. Only the one and only time I laughed out loud (literally) was at the very end, where they show the movie was rated R. I'm like, Wh-what?! Maybe I missed a few F-bombs. I have no other explanation. This was about the tamest "exploitation" movie I've ever seen.
First of all, Savage Sisters spends 86 minutes skirting the skin. We've got WiP, a group shower scene, a bath, sexual encounters (one guy, three ladies, three encounters), some, uh, loose-fitting clothing, they dress up like hookers (and draw men into rooms) and one of them does a striptease. There was one blink-and-you-miss-it reveal, there may have been one or two others, but I'd have to break out the rewind and pause buttons, and frankly, I'm too lazy. The violence is tame. Actually, almost exclusively limited to gun fights, which are a BORE, according to ME. I want to see the girls kick some ass. There are a few to a handful of brief hand-to-hand battles with the ladies, but simply not nearly enough. What we have is good, it just takes a back seat to everything else I've mentioned.
I suppose if you know what you're getting into, maybe you can find an enjoyable aspect to it (or are easily amused). I found this beared only a slight resemblance to the bulk of the movies from that era, coming out of the Philippines.
