An unnamed art-deco retro city of the future panics when a malevolent underground leader starts to kidnap and devour its baby children. Into the breach fly three lady superheroes: Hong Kong’s finest female stars of the 1990s. Sporting a complex back story of betrayals and secret sibling relationships, this baroque high flying tale of female night gallantry offers some of the best airborne action ecstasy of 1990s Hong Kong, the golden age for nouveau wuxia action. But the film transcends its camp appeal with complex psycho-social sexual dynamics: male emasculation anxiety en drag transmutes maternal power into superheroism (Mui), butch anarchism (Cheung), and hidden gay desire (Yeoh). (S. Kraicer)
