Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: IRON ANGELS

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I review my first "girls with guns" movie with the 1987 Hong Kong action flick "Iron Angels"!
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[@TheBrandonTenold]

Do you like girls AND guns? Well this movie's got ya covered!

[@nemurenuyorumoonlight8778]

If you want to see more from the Girls With Guns genre, check out films like Yes, Madam! as well as the In The Line Of Duty series. Bonus: Check out the Tiger Cage Trilogy as well. These films are nuts, but nothing will ever beat Fatal Termination. Moon Lee fans, where you at?

[@ajbahlam]

Please do more Hong Kong cult movies!

[@mikehunt4986]

You should review 1977's "The Deadly Angels." Hard to find but much better than this shit. Worth the trouble of getting a copy.

[@j.j.hayden9461]

Some more Hong Kong action would be welcome. I think you might want to check out Peacock King, good mix of HK action and Evil Dead. You can find plenty of info on these films at the HKMDB. Cheers

[@chadharger9323]

And for anime fans there is Noir, Madlax, and El Bruja de la something or rather. . .for the full name of the third series do a search for 'Anime Girls with gun trilogy.'. .I swear anime/manga titles are either the easiest names to remember or you need the Enigma coding machine from WW 2 to figure it out.

[@wstine79]

In a parallel universe, there is a KZbinr named Lewis Tenold who reviews Obscure Horror Comic Books while wearing a Fedora and brown trench coat.

[@danielramsey6141]

Oh, so you’ve seen that Universe too?! Well shit, I thought I was just having a Fever Dream!

[@Invidente7]

Don't associate Brandon with that creep, please.

[@Granite899]

Question does he like the green MnM

[@Tricks213.]

Who into green m&ms

[@Granite899]

@@Tricks213.Lewis

[@Majere613]

In a fairly typical Hong Kong move, 'Moon' is played by Moon Lee and 'Elaine' by Elaine Lui, continuing the grand tradition of Jackie Chan playing a character called 'Jackie' in almost all of his movies.

[@otaking3582]

Or as we Americans call it, The Danza.

[@johnlloyddy7016]

That's mostly in the English dubbed versions because the English voice actors have a hard time pronouncing the characters' Cantonese names which could be quite the tongue twister. In the original Cantonese version their names are different.

[@mmattson8947]

3:44 "They are carrying samurai swords, so I get to do this." While skewering is okay, I was really hoping Brandon was setting up... "DECAPITA-TION!!"

[@ConstantineFurman]

Right??

[@garrtoons4303]

I won't lie, Iron Angels is a sick title. 🤩

[@ShinGhidorah17]

Agreed.

[@TupocalypseShakur]

It's sounds like it could've been a Golden Hero

[@Mugen0445]

Sounds so much like a 40k title.

[@rayanderson5797]

@@Mugen0445 I think Space Marines are called that sometimes.

[@deathraygonzo6339]

It could be either a 80's movie or 80's girl metal band

[@Duncaster]

Moon Lee’s the queen of the girls with guns movies. Honestly shocked you haven’t covered more of her films. She’s a cult film icon.

[@Belgand]

Seriously. Cynthia Rothrock and Meiko Kaji as well.

[@richconroy5559]

More of her movies need to come out on Blu-ray. Somebody's got to be working on that right

[@Belgand]

@@richconroy5559 We might start to get more. It was hard to get most of Michelle Yeoh's most notable films until Everything Everywhere gave her massive mainstream attention once again and you started seeing releases happen from the usual boutique labels. Criterion even put out The Heroic Trio. 88 Films seems the most likely to release more of them since they've been doing a bunch of other girls with guns films, but I think she's lower on the priority list.

[@richconroy5559]

@Belgand I fully believe that the In the Line of Duty box set was released simply because I bought a bootleg of Royal Warriors three weeks to its announcement! You're welcome everybody

[@richardfan7157]

Sibelle Hu and Cynthia Khan as well

[@Axolotl_Mischief]

Oh, awesome...now I have 'Against the Ninja' stuck in my head. Again.

[@TheFleahost]

When I first heard it, I thought it sounded a lot like Pat Benatar.

[@LeviAckerman-cb5ji]

7:04 "Look! It's Raph!" "Yeah...a little TOO Raph!"

[@drishavg]

Charlie's Angel + Yes Ma'am × Video Game OST = Iron Angels.

[@mgrzx3367]

Yep Chuck E. Cheese was in Hong Kong from the mid 80's to the late 80's. Didn't last very long.

[@jesusromanpadro3853]

Maybe it needed a better movie to advertise it.

[@mgrzx3367]

@@jesusromanpadro3853 Like a kids movie? Good thinking, hindsight is 20/20. I giggled for minutes, thank you.

[@scockery]

I heard they couldn't get insured after all the constant shoot outs and martial arts fights.

[@mgrzx3367]

@@scockery Good one

[@stonetic2515]

Ending reminds me of The Raid. I love when the villain is so strong the heroes need a numbers advantage to fight him.

[@cetotakusattaquea1087]

Cynthia Luster a.k.a. Yukari Ôshima, who plays the vilainess, is from Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club. Before her prolific career in Hong Kong, she portrayed one of the recurring vilainess in the sentai series "Bioman".

[@Morboeatspeople]

a.k.a. the haunter of my dreams

[@B.-T.]

She's also the "dude looks like a lady" villain from Riki-Oh.

[@charlesws7825]

I've seen most of Yukari's movies. She's incredible. ❤ I'd love to see a cage match arranged between Yukari and Brie Larson. Brie would last ten seconds! 😁

[@charlesws7825]

​@@B.-T.That movie is ALMOST as strange as some films Yukari made in the Phillipines. Honestly!

[@B.-T.]

@@charlesws7825 That's a weird fantasy to have. You might want to talk to a therapist about it, it sounds reeeeeeeally unhealthy.

[@brianlindstrand934]

Great! "Charlie" is played by David Chiang, one of my favorite Shaw Brothers actors.

[@ConstantineFurman]

From, uh... "Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires"??

[@henrykujawa4427]

@@ConstantineFurman Allegedly, LEGEND was one of the very few movies where David Chiang was heard speaking in his own voice!

[@nope5657]

Even a lower tier HK action flick is amazing. Nothing like a Moon Lee flick to unwind to. My favorite Girls With Guns flicks are Angel Terminators 2 and She Shoots Straight.

[@isaiahmarkwell626]

I’m not somebody that makes a lot of comments - maybe 20 ever in as many years. But this is bothering me. Your videos keep getting knocked out of my algorithm! I am subscribed, I watch often, I have the bell checked and all that. It’s just that several weeks or even months go by, and I’m reminded within myself “oh geese, I’ve not seen that funny Canadian reactionist in a bit” and that’s how I RE-Find your channel a handful of times a year. What gives?!

[@hibikiholmes2867]

Man, I'd like to see Brandon review Lady RoboCop one day.

[@columbatiberius2176]

I fully expect it's definitely happening, Brandon's just waiting for a RoboCop-style film to be released by Hollywood he can time the review with.

[@charlesshadid1890]

Do you mean Lady Battle Cop?

[@JanPospisilArt]

Hell, do a double feature with I Love Maria? :)

[@Niemand]

@@charlesshadid1890 Most likely, random fun fact: Keita Amemiya deisgned that suit.

[@hibikiholmes2867]

@@charlesshadid1890 Yeah, that one lol. But honestly, I ain't too far off with that initial title.

[@jorgezarco9269]

The nightclub is called "Suzy Wong"? It's an insult in Hong Kong. It's used for a Chinese woman who dates a white, Caucasian man.

[@xkumanekox]

I like the mixture of the quieter espionage scenes with the all out action, it's a nice balance, not every scene have to be bombastic, that's usually how most old HK action movies go in terms of flow.

[@PsychoGemini]

Glad to see you covering some Hong Kong action. That Suge Knight reference got me good. That last fight with Yukari Oshima and Moon Lee has to be the hardest fight I've seen with two girls. Yukari was probably the best one to come out of this genre.

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

I'm gonna take a-WILD-guess here and say I believe a lot of the actors were hurt and injured during the filming of this movie. Just my thoughts. LOL.

[@florinivan6907]

'they use their phones anyway despite being about 50 feet away from each other' That's actually realistic. I've seen people do that. So this would make it quite prescient in hindsight.

[@longlivethesheet4561]

Brandon, if you’re up to getting random recommendations from peeps in your comments sections, I highly recommend the Hong Kong movie Human Lanterns; it’s basically a Shaw Brothers kung-fu film mixed with a light layer of cannibal horror More people need to be exposed to it, dammit

[@tylerdordon99]

Fantastic film indeed.

[@24framedavinci39]

I'm pretty sure he only takes requests from Patreon, which is fair.

[@Belgand]

It's a great movie, but I think The Boxer's Omen is still one of the most notable from that wave of early '80s Hong Kong black magic films. Pretty much everything Kuei Chih-Hung directed between 1980 and '83.

[@longlivethesheet4561]

@@Belgand Sounds like I should see that one pronto

[@dexocube]

Yeah I watched that one for the first time a couple months ago, it's great

[@aaronmoran7195]

Love Yukari Oshima! She is basically the female Jackie Chan.

[@kevindavis5966]

Lesbian vampire movie? That's actually a broader genre than I initially suspected.

[@Brian-qn7fn]

It is always a great day when Brandon drops a new video.

[@llongone2]

So happy you are covering this genre. So many great films and stars from this era.

[@grapeshot]

So choreographed almost like ballet.

[@Belgand]

So great to finally see you get into the sub-genre. Hopefully there will be plenty more Moon Lee films to come.

[@bjmccann1]

Hats off to the many stunt performers who gave their lives to make the movie. I'm not entirely sure that they used blanks!

[@Orphus]

The music also sounded a lot like the theme of Knight Rider. SUMMON THE HOFF!

[@Morboeatspeople]

New Space Ice AND Brandon Tenold? Life is good, today.

[@justincameron9661]

We need a Brandon Tenold plushie

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

3:08 I like how all the men in the field teleport away just before the explosion! 🤣

[@Vargslynslaktarn]

Yeah, Friday with Brandon. Luv from Sweden

[@KarlBunker]

That butt-sliding down a staircase while firing a machine gun bit looked pretty awesome.

[@user-be7tc2bd6e]

AGREED. I also liked that scene too.

[@johnDoe-uw2zs]

the more accurate translation of the title should be "Operation Angel" or something like that. Also 16:41, realistic physics in an action movie, so visceral.

[@illiteratedino]

Dai does actually mean big. No joke.

[@jasonsantos3037]

Hong Kong made some good kick ass movies.

[@nommo3339]

Awesome! Love this movie! Make more HK action reviews, especially girls with guns and ninja movies!

[@Mondomeyer]

Was anyone else a little disturbed by the fact that Interpol killed a child in the opening and it was never addressed?

[@claudeprince6724]

This is one of my favourite martial arts film series. Iron angels 3 is my favourite of the series.

[@kurtfranklin2680]

I love the girls with guns genre. I’m glad to see this type of film on your channel and I hope you do more in the future. Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima two great Hong Kong action movie actresses of the era.

[@SwaggyG_2102]

I feel like the retro game callbacks would be better suited for Metal Slug, considering how action-packed it is.

[@JnEricsonx]

Streets of Rage IMHO.

[@DarthTach]

That YTV T-shirt brings back some memories. Those Halloween marathons of "Are you afraid of the dark".

[@benny1975]

I love this Channel! Awesome movies, hilarious commentary, keep it up Brandon!

[@justinsullivan1285]

You can't go wrong with "girls with guns" in Hong Kong flicks. These films put those "Charlie Angels" movies to shame. 😅

[@llongone2]

@15:57 Brandon, did you notice that the park fight scene between Neo and Smith in the 2nd Matrix film pays homage to this scene.

[@fletchkeilman2205]

Brandon. You might know the guy who plays "Charlie". He is Shaw Bros. legend David Chiang, who you might know from Hammer Films "Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires", among other amazing kung Fu movies.

[@GoGojiraGo]

Iron Angels sounds like a sequel to Iron Eagle.

[@OrthwormJEB]

Okay. You convinced me to find this movie and watch it.

[@dottiegillespie8067]

So awesome!!! Thank you Mr. Tenold!!!! I'm so excited for the vampire genre!!!! You rock!

[@thacobell4700]

Ah, Hong Kong action films. The greaatest genre. Yes, Madam would be a fun video to do. It kinda feels like 2 different movies.

[@ianpitkin6324]

Awesome video brandon

[@Kevxmed]

Was waiting for this 😂

[@forrestredd2706]

This reminds me... You should do Twins Effect, I was obsessed with that movie for a while, and I think you would love it.

[@danniicross3939]

Friday night entertainment sorted, cheers Brandon...

[@Daytek90210]

Absolutely love the YTV shirt my man

[@ZankuroMinazuki]

Uh oh. The lesbian vampire genre will be Brandon's new Godzilla movie channel takeover! I just know it! It'll be interesting to see who keeps peering into his kitchen window, though! :p

[@floydlooney6837]

"Girls with Guns" ... that reminds me of a Korean movie or mini-series called "Killer Girl K"

[@chadharger9323]

Blind Fury needs to be done. It stars Rutger Houser(sp?). Has a cool premise, humor, fight scenes.

[@JnEricsonx]

And is a loose US remake of a Zatoichi film! One of my fave Rutger movies. The other is NOT Blade Runner,it's Split Second!

[@smithwesson1896]

Hope you get to review some John Woo movies someday

[@stefm2756]

RESPECT FROM SCOTLAND BRANDON....👊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 i enjoy binge watching yer videos m8

[@mosshivenetwork117]

They look very attractive in the thumbnail.

[@jorgezarco9269]

Elaine Lui was really good in Yuen Woo Ping's Red Wolf(1995).

[@louisduarte8763]

3:24 "DAMN! Those drugs weren't supposed to light up until AFTER we sold them!" 10:18 Ah, charging the gate and honking the horn. Very subtle. 14:44 The "Ovaltine" bit from "A Christmas Story" never gets old. 18:05 Lesbian Vampires?! Is it "Hammer Time" again already?

[@DchanZockt]

At the risk of sounding like a yucky fanboy; but you're one of the few reviewers whose video I give a Like first and watch second.

[@kableebleeomop4399]

Very nice use of fast as a shark by accept lol

[@jhoughjr1]

Came for the DragonSound was not disappointed. 🎶🎶

[@eddieboyky]

This movie looks preposterously entertaining in the best sort of way.

[@BaronVonHardcharger]

Wicked YTV shirt, my dude. :D 11:00 That lady totally went in for a Patrick Swayze-esque throat rip!! SICK!!!

[@krispypriest5116]

Thanks Brandon!!!! Great review as always. Peace fellow Canuck!!

[@aliasfakename3159]

I kept rewinding to the ending fight so this video took an extra 2min to watch. That was sick!

[@Vegane_Atombombe]

Well that's what i call "strong female characters"!

[@danielramsey6141]

16:43! Goddamn! That Throw look like it Hurt! 😱😮

[@JW666]

Hope you do the sequels someday. Man, the Turtles in Time music was very spot on, did Konami watch this movie one day, heard that music sound & decided to mix that one with the TMNT theme for the game?! 😜 Also, you look like your normal self again, last time you looked just like that Linkara guy & had kittens 😜😂

[@Eternally_Sardonic]

The Christmas Story reference caught me off-guard whilst drinking coffee. 😅 Lesbian vampires? Razor Blade Smile?! Please be RBS.

[@llongone2]

The final fight between Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima in this film is legendary. One of several of their great showdowns.

[@TheKaareaksel]

Iron Angel is f**king amazing. Part 2 is even wilder, and one of my all time Hong Kong favorites...

[@MarlonMacielBrando]

That final fight of Moon and Elaine vs Madam Yung looked straight out of a Yakuza game, complete with heat actions and all! 🤣

[@sfighter0085]

Awesome review. I don't think I've ever heard of this one. Dose look like what you'd expect from a Hong Kong action movie, even if the big shootout was in the middle of the movie instead of the ending. Hope to see the sequels done at some point.

[@jaredmichael7659]

So excited for this one

[@jaredmichael7659]

And did anyone else shit a brick at the announcement of 'lesbian vampire genre'?

[@jeffpadilla9891]

So many banana peels on that hospital floor

[@kelicowilliams6339]

Hilarious review! 🤣🤣🤣

[@charlesws7825]

It's great to see you reviewing 80's HK GWG movies (I know, but shortening to initials saves time and space!), and Midnight Angels is one of my favorites. 😃 A couple of more great movies where Moon and Yukari are both good girls kicking butt are Mission of Justice and Beauty Investigator. Check em out! 😁

[@danielemerson312]

I added the movie to my playlist within a minute of this review starting.

[@reignfire85]

Maybe you found it just okay, Brandon, but this looks so insane I have to check it out for myself, especially with such a soundtrack (and the title is awesome).

[@Alexplainshow]

I cannot believe Brandon did not have a whole section dedicated to the late Saijo Hideki (yet)

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

I know Brandon generally only does requests from Patreon supporters, but I still have to say that now would be the perfect time to review one of the more obscure King Kong movies such as “Son of Kong” or “King Kong Lives.”

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

I thought he had done "King Kong Lives" years ago. Either I'm misremembering, or it's one of his videos that got taken down for copyright reasons.

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

@@andrewgwilliam4831 Perhaps you’re thinking of “King Kong Escapes?”

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

@@fromthecheapseats7126 No, definitely the one with Linda Hamilton.

[@BlackSheepEntertainment9009]

That "against the ninja" joke broke me 😆

[@scottgrieb8095]

I love this movie. I'm desperately waiting for arrow or 88 films to bring this to Blu-ray.

[@derywade9131]

Lol, That Miami Connection reference.

[@kaiseryuuki4098]

What a coincidence, I was just acquiring this and several similar movies last night.

[@deltaprime3509]

during that sponsored beginning I noticed something that I haven't in long time a YTV shirt its been years since I've seen one

[@dbsommers1]

I was heavy into the HK action scene in the late 90s. Got to revisit it.

[@Homey104]

7:52 That's exactly what I was thinking!

[@DeeDeeKL]

I loved all those HK action kick and shoot flicks ... all the Red Force, Iron Angels, Ultra Force, Yes Madam ... best best best :-)

[@BadWolf222]

New video drop. Yes !!!

[@AyaC]

There were a lot of great HK movies during the 80s and 90s which is considered the Best Era of HK movies. Back then, HK movie studios discovered a popular trend example Hopping Vampires and Horror Comedy and everyone is doing it. Usually, the good Girls with Guns series is the Yes Madam series which Sammo Hung is the director and producer of the series and gave a lot of acting chances to many of his Hung Action Team. Sammo is considered the Big Big Brother of the HK movie industry which also includes Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao before the two became famous. Sammo is also more willing to give his men an acting chance since his policy doesn't require every member to have a martial arts background, unlike Jackie Chan who is always the lead and his team are just extras. Moon Lee is also trained under Sammo and Jackie but she retired very early due to injuries and is now living well with her family. Maybe you can consider reviewing the Mr Vampire series (Part 1, 3 and 4 are the good ones) The Peacock King and it's sequel which is based on a Japanese manga or Future Cops which is a parody of Street Fighters and Dragonball (and it is awesome!)

[@BarelyEinstein]

If any movie needed an SNES game it's this one. And the soundtrack is already done!

[@66cuda]

Thanks!

[@jaivonpyatt6905]

Well I mean from my point of view the stealth approach is the most effective. Going all full guns blazin' is just a one-way ticket to get killed