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It may be a reflection of my age, but as soon as people start performing acrobatics which are impossible it begins to annoy, because it tells me immediately that there are to be no rules of normality in the movie. I think the depth of serious involvement for any viewer depends to a large extent on credibility, the fact that one can identify with the characters on screen it terms of the emotions and the actions. This film was loosely thrown together, has a script built on hackneyed clichés, and contains so many antagonistic groups and individuals that it lacks any cohesion whatsoever. If one wishes to convey the feeling of remoteness in a foreign/Asian country one shouldn't have characters delivering lines in modern Bronx, Cockney, Estuary English, or whatever else. Just for laughs is alright, but this is becoming a trend, and I fear that the quality is going down and down. Most of the actors are worthy of far better things. The computer effects are impressive. It's a pity the script wasn't and the finer points weren't of the same standard.

It is often said that undeveloped characters in movies are as shallow as cardboard cut-outs. In this film they are not even cardboard. They are paper - in fact, they are newspaper, with print which can be read from the other side. The so-called 'Nude Nuns...' eroticism pales into insignificance when one thinks of the way Ken Russell portrayed it with infinitely more depth and shock. 'Nude Nuns...' has hardly any erotic titillation for today's audience, conceived as it is in 1970s attitudes - indeed the stealing of hackneyed effects, such as the 'spaghetti western' character description through text-on-screen over still-shot, is boring beyond words. Just who is this trash aimed at?