Girl With Gun
By MicroCinema Scene • Jul 14th, 2006 • Category: Action/AdventureGwen is a young professional with a full plate, trying to juggle a boyfriend and a job, and struggling with both; like so many of us, she has to try to balance a dinner date with her significant other while taking on a ninja killer in the alley between courses.
Russ Emanuel’s Girl With Gun is a breezy action short with nice set pieces and some tongue-in-cheek humor. As Gwen, and her alter ego the Nightingale, Tracy O’Connor is bright and pretty and seems comfortable with the kung fu, but really can’t act a lick. Erick Holloway’s mild, and mildly confused, boyfriend, helps in support.
But Emanuel isn’t putting together an acting showcase; a martial arts fight featuring a trusty Ninja smoke bomb and a little Wire-Fu (which brought a smile to my face) is the centerpiece of the short.
What struck me is that this short seemed to be lifted out of a larger piece, and a more involved storyline featuring the saga of the Nightingale. I wondered if Emanuel, like many microcinema directors, intended this short to be a “calling card” for a feature centered around the same cast of characters.
If so, the further adventures of Nightingale would be welcome, and certainly would have its appeal among fans of comic-book heroes (with Nightingale’s nod to Black Canary and Birds of Prey in evidence) as well as martial arts affcianados.
Three and a half stars.
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