Golgo 13 - Queen Bee
by Osamu Dezaki
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Actor: Carlos Ferro, Denise Poirier, Dwight Schultz, Joe Lala, John Di MaggioDirector: Osamu Dezaki
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Urban Vision
Movie Reviews of Golgo 13 - Queen Bee
Movie Review: Completely missed the point.
Summary: 2 Stars
This addition to the Golgo 13 name is a failure and is inferior in almost everyway to the original. The Golgo 13 character is screwed up. He is no longer the cool collective hitman. He is easily distracted, he hesitates now, and blind luck plays a factor for his target too much. The tension that is present in the original Golgo 13 is gone. I'll clarify, the build up to achieve that one almost impossible shot no longer exists.
Golgo 13 is hired to whack some chick named Queen Bee. Her past and purpose is revealed but I didn't care for the character at all. The more this movie continued the more I got aggravated. This movie is a soft core porn flick. Sex scenes are plenty and the preparation for hits are minimal.
The animation and character designs are good. The soundtrack is kind of weak. The fight scenes are ok at best but nothing spectacular or noteworthy.
This is a movie that sits in my collection but I rarely watch. Those who aren't fans of Golgo 13 shouldn't waste their time. If you never seen Golgo 13, then check out the first one The Professional. In that one he actually comes off as a Professional. This one he is more of an amatuer. But if fan service and action is your main dish. Then by all means dig in.
Summary of Golgo 13 - Queen Bee
Code name: Golgo 13 - Professional assassin.Target: Queen Bee - leader of dissident South American liberation army.
Mission: Terminate the infamous Queen Bee before she kills a high profile presidential candidate.
Problem: Queen Bee is not your average guerrilla radical. As a child, she was ripped unmercifully from her home and left to fend for herself on the streets. As a woman, cunning and powerful, she lives only for passion and revenge; her brand of honey is deadly. Once Golgo 13 discovers Queen Bee's true identity, he decides that he must step aside as a very personal feud climaxes to a tragic end that will blow you away!
With its intricate plot and pulse-pounding action, Golgo 13: Queen Bee stays true to the thrilling scenarios that have made the "Golgo 13" character such a success spanning a theatrical movie, comic books, and video games!
More than 15 years after the debut of The Professional: Gogol 13 (1983), Duke Togo, the assassin-hero of Takao Saito's popular manga, returns to the screen. Queen Bee plays like the animated daydreams of a frustrated high school sophomore: lots of nudity, sex, and violence, strung together by an over-the-top, clich?d story line. A ruthless Democratic vice presidential candidate hires Gogol to murder Sonia, a.k.a. the Queen Bee, because of her ties to his weak-willed running mate. She's a big-time cocaine dealer and the assistant leader of a Marxist revolution in a small Central American country. Although she's had at least eight children by different fathers, Sonia is built like a brick guerrilla camp. Her amoral indifference to murder and her sexual passion make her fire to Gogol's ice. Gogol and Sonia have no trouble outwitting the Secret Service, U.S. law enforcement, and a rogue army unit led by a deranged Vietnam veteran. But their mutual respect and passion don't stop Gogol from fulfilling his contract. U.S. viewers can only hope Japanese audiences don't see this bloody James Bond rip-off as a realistic portrait of American politics. Rated for mature audiences ages 18 and older for graphic sex, profanity, tobacco use, and extreme violence. --Charles Solomon
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