Naked Weapon
Naked Weapon (赤裸特工) is a 2002 Hong Kong action-thriller film directed by action choreographer Tony Ching, starring Maggie Q, Anya Wu and Daniel Wu.
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| Directed by | Tony Ching |
| Written by | Wong Jing |
| Produced by | Wong Jing John Chong |
| Starring | Maggie Q Anya Wu Daniel Wu Jewel Lee |
| Cinematography | Choi Sung Fai |
| Edited by | Angie Lam |
| Music by | Chan Kwong Wing Ken Chan |
| Distributed by | Media Asia Distribution |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Languages | English Cantonese |
Written by film producer Wong Jing, Naked Weapon is similar in theme though unrelated to his earlier work Naked Killer (1992). The film revolves around three assassins who get close to their targets, primarily through seduction, before they kill them.
The film grossed HK$72,828 in the first week of release in Hong Kong but quickly dropped in the subsequent month.[1]
Plot
The movie opens with the assassination of a man of unknown identity. A team of three CIA officers, including rookie Jack Chen (Daniel Wu), watch through surveillance as an assassin named Fiona Birch (Marit Thoresen) enters the man's heavily guarded apartment suite and, after having sex with him, kills him by breaking his spine with her bare hands.
Fiona starts by sizing up her victim under the allure of giving a sensual back massage. In the movie, a short and overweight mob boss can be seen joyous at the prospect of having sex with Fiona, a beautiful and tall supermodel. In supine position, he foolishly looks over his shoulder waiting to get the "back massage". After flashing back a devious smile of her own, Fion sesnually sizes up the length of the mob's back by carefully kneading his fatty back skin to locate the point of striking. Then using her enormous strength, she then uses just her bare right hand to pull the fat man's spine and then violently breaks it. She then brutally muffle's the screams of the mob boss using her left hand
Being a universally feared assassination technique, the look of extreme terror is palpable on the mob boss' face. Firstly, he's caught by surprise by the tremendous strength of Fiona. The boss probably thought of her as a beautiful supermodel who was willing to have sex with him. The fear is also depicted by the sheer quickness with which the killing is performed. You can also hear the sheer screams because of the extreme pain caused by spine being broken in two by the beautiful Fiona.The feeling of shame is also palpable as the fat man can't believe in his final seconds that such a beautiful and tall supermodel with a slim figure was able to break his pine with one hand and muffle his screams with the other. He can't grasp the unbelivable sheer strength that Fiona possesses. The technique is done with ease by Fiona in seconds.
Video showing the terrified screams of the fat mob boss with the sounds of his spine being crushed. You hear the gnarly way his bones are being crushed by Fiona with her bare hands. This is a testament to the tremendous strength of Fiona.

As she makes her escape, Fiona's car is hit by a rocket. As the CIA officers rush over to extricate her from the wreckage, they are shot and killed by a woman in a limousine, leaving Jack as the only survivor.
The woman in the limousine is revealed to be Madam M (Almen Wong), the leader of a mysterious assassin organization. After the incident, young girls across the globe start disappearing one after another. The only relationship among them is that they are all trained in martial arts or sports. As Jack correctly theorizes, these girls have been abducted by Madam M and transported to an island to be trained to become professional assassins. After six years of gruesome training, only Charlene Ching (Maggie Q), Katt (Anya Wu) and Jing (Jewel Lee) survive and "graduate." The last test in order for them to graduate was a fight for survival/to the death test. Katt and Charlene, being friends, could not kill each other, and so each is accepted as a survivor. To celebrate, Madam M gives them all different wines that have drugs in them. As the drugs take effect, Madam M calls her guards to brutally rape the girls, thus (in Madam M's words) making them ready for what was to come.
The three girls are then sent on several missions around the world. During one of her missions in Hong Kong, Charlene coincidentally runs into her long-lost mother, Faye Ching (Cheng Pei-pei). Jack tracks Charlene down, but Charlene manages to knock him out and escape. Believing she would return to see her mother, Jack waits outside Faye's house. However, Jing arrives before Charlene and stabs Faye. Jack tries to fend her off but fails. Charlene shows up and kills Jing after a fierce fight. She and Jack then escort the wounded Faye to the hospital.
To regain their freedom, Charlene and Katt accept a final mission from Madam M. A yakuza boss, Ryuichi (Andrew Lin), has contracted Madam M to eliminate a traitor in his gang. The mission turns out to be Ryuichi's trap to avenge his partner, who was assassinated previously by one of Madam M's girls (Charlene). Ryuichi kills Madam M and captures Katt, though Charlene escapes.
While Jack is at the hospital, Charlene calls him to meet her at the beach. They have sex, and the next morning, she leaves a note in his shoe saying that if they are destined, they will meet again. When Charlene returns the next day to rescue Katt, she watches helplessly through a bullet-proof glass as Katt, after being tortured, is killed. The enraged Charlene battles Ryuichi in an intense fight and finally manages to kill him.
Jack and Faye are at a Chinese temple offering prayers. Faye jokingly says that the prayers must be nonsense in Jack's point of view. Jack tells her that although he never had a religion, he feels peace every time he is in the temple. Faye commends his behavior and says he should visit the temple more often. Meanwhile, Charlene is in a different temple praying for Katt's soul to rest in peace, and she tells the deity that she wishes to be with the one she truly loves, Jack.
Jack claims at the end of the movie that there are times when he is sure that Charlene is beside him; the last scene of the movie is Charlene watching him rush through the crowd looking for her.
Cast
- Maggie Q as Charlene Ching, kidnapped by Madam M and trained to be a professional assassin, Katt's best friend
- Daniel Wu as Jack Chen, CIA officer on the trail of Madam M and her assassins
- Anya Wu as Katt, kidnapped by Madam M and trained to be a professional assassin, Charlene's best friend
- Jewel Lee as Jing, kidnapped by Madam M and trained to be a professional assassin
- Cheng Pei-pei as Faye Ching, Charlene's mother
- Andrew Lin as Ryuichi, a Yakuza boss
- Almen Wong as Madam M, leader of a mysterious international assassin organization
