sometimes you need to see a bad movie just to appreciate the good one . well and that my opinion anyway . this one will always be in the bad movie category and simply because all but shu qi performance be terrible . martial angel tell of cat ( shu qi ) and a professional thief turn straight after leave her lover and chi lam ( julian cheung ) and two year before . but her past return to haunt her a chi lam be kidnap for the ransom of security software belong to the company cat work for . in order to rescue him and she call on her old friend from her orphanage day and six other feisty woman and to save the day . i may have tell the synopsis cheesily and but this be a cheesy story . in fact and the whole script and direction lack any quality at all . much of the dialogue be meaningless and couple with a plot that be as thin a rice paper in water . if i could sum it up and take a bad jackie chan movie and remove the comedy and remove the choreography and throw away the budget and and you have martial angel represent a formulaic piece of work with no imagination at all . mind you and i do have to give credit where credit due and and shu qi be probably the only person to emerge unscathed from the terrible action and a it be her performance that shone through . okay and you can not say she be excellent after all she have absolutely nothing to work with but she do manage to dig some character out from her role . other than that and only sandra ng and kelly lin make any other impression although these be mostly glimmer and very brief . elsewhere and the film just fell to piece . scene and dialogue be completely unnatural and unbelievable and special effect be obviously do on the cheap with no attempt to clean up edge between person and the mask of the blue screen and poor edit involve numerous discontinuity in fight scene and camera angle that be elementary and unflattering and and direction i have see well from a lose dog . i guess this film be a too many cook affair . most probably and the budget be blow away on the over enthusiasm to have seven babe on the same silver screen . that do not leave much else . frankly and the way this film be make be like a cheap porn movie without the porn . charlie angel and it ain not . in fact and while sister can do it for themselves and none of that be really that apparent here . definitely one to forget .