My Cultural Diet

First, a bit of trivia: When Imperial Entertainment acquired the rights to Triple Cross, they apparently re-edited it and then renamed it to Angel of Fury prior to its American release in 1994 — which is how it’s listed on Tubi. However, star Cynthia Rothrock already had a movie titled Angel of Fury under her belt, which she’d made in 1993 with Billy Drago. So to clear up any potential confusion, Imperial just renamed that movie to Lady Dragon 2. Sadly, this backstory might be the most interesting thing about the film. Rothrock plays a corporate security consultant named Nancy Bolan who’s tasked with bringing an advanced computer into the country. However, her simple courier job is complicated by two things. A terrorist named Bolt — who, we’re told on several occasions, strikes like lightning — wants the computer for his own nefarious purposes. Meanwhile, a former lover that Nancy previously thought dead re-emerges from the shadows, and he’ll stop at nothing to capture Bolt. (Who, allow me to remind you, strikes like lightning.) It’s a muddled mess that occasionally elicits a chuckle, which is the most I can say for it. Screenwriter Christopher Mitchum claims the Indonesian filmmakers tore his script apart, replacing anything they didn’t understand with a fight scene. Adding insult to injury, the film’s fight scenes are all lackluster at best. Rothrock occasionally gets to strut her stuff, but most of her moves are edited into incoherence, which is further heightened by the fact that Triple Cross looks like it was filmed on sixth-generation VHS tape. Not surprisingly, Rothrock was so embarrassed, she tried to convince the studio to not release the film, but was obviously unsuccessful.

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