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Fantasies about girl-spies and girl-assassins who can kick ass


In Britain we need to swallow a dose of feminist poison before being allowed to enjoy a potion of what one IMDB reviewer called 'boobage'. The boobage is indeed excellent all around, and this is what keeps us going.

HOWEVER, the movie in places is realistic and in others stretches the bounds of credibility excessively. Some examples:

1) A female SAS captain - a front line combat commando. Is that even allowed in the British Army? I don't think so.
2) The female SAS captain is quite well made but her interrogators prefer to subject her to strangely dignified part-mythical tortures (needles under the fingernails etc.) to break her will, failing for some considerable time until she gives in. They never rape her and break her that way. That's totally unrealistic.
3) Ridiculous hot girl-spy and girl-assassin fantasies. Oh gosh there are too many sillinesses to list here. How about, the slinky, seductive Arab ninja with the call-girl name, Yasmin? Or the 'former intelligence operative' heroine of the piece, who is not only a computer expert (hardware and software) but who's rich, single and has a James Bond lifestyle with a fast car and kickboxing trainer (no doubt we're supposed to believe all intelligence operatives are CQC experts LOL). Oh and she's a pretty good torturer in her own right. Add 'hostile interrogations' to her list of expert knowledge fields.

It's all too much when you consider that the director obviously knows a little bit about how real spies work and behave but chooses to portray this hogwash. It demeans the viewer to be subjected to such fare. The woman who arranges to 'buy' the prisoner behaves like a real spy. Nobody else does.

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