1986 · action · girls-with-guns · michelle-yeoh
Royal Warriors
Directed by David Chung1h 36m1986
When a tough policewoman learns about a group of violent terrorists, she, along with her partner and a Japanese detective, does everything it takes to take them down.
Our read: Royal Warriors (1986) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · girls-with-guns · michelle-yeoh entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / girls-with-guns, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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