Battle Queen 2020 (2001)

Memorable, crazy movie

Good movie but grossly overrated

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*Another Julie Strain B-flick. This time Strain is the head mistress for the Elites of the future. Apparently there was some sort of apocalypse and an ice age has covered the Earth. So now the Elites live above ground and the rest of humanity hangs out in the tunnels. You know the Elites are special because they are always smoking cigars and wearing tuxedos. If you're an Elite, you must be puffing away on a big, fat cigar. It's in the Elite rulebook. Soon Strain will question her mistress existence and seek the help of the rebels. Many breasts will be exposed before the climatic battle.All right. I admit it. I rented this B-epic to see Strain take her top off. Good news. Strain gets topless on numerous occasions. Eureka. There is also a very brief girl/girl scene where Strain and another woman put on a show for the camera. "Do you think they're watching us? -They're always watching." Strain knows what to do when the camera is on her. Thank God for that. Although there are many good things about Julie Strain, being athletic is not one of them. She is utterly unconvincing as an action hero. Strain has feet made of lead. She's good at walking or standing or having sex. That's about the limit of the physical activities she's good at. The filmmakers knew this and delayed her fighting scenes until the end. But "BattleQueen 2020" has plenty of T&A to make up for its cheap sets and bland action. If you're a Julie Strain freak, you should check it out.One last thing, the girl that really caught my attention with this one was Eva Nemeth. She was the leather outfit wearing, S&M hooker with nunchucks. She did not speak one word during the movie. She has a great fight scene at the end using her nunchucks against the rebel leader. She was one hard bodied B-warrior. The IMDb tells me that some of her other movies are called "White Slave Virgins" and "Lesbian Slave Desires". Hmmmmm...What to rent next? Hmmmmmm...

I was expecting this movie to be pretty bad when I rented it, but after watching it, It's actually a pretty decent movie! Be advised, that I'm a "B post-holocost-type-scifi-movie" junkie. What I didn't expect when I rented it, was that this was this movie is ALMOST a porno.All in all, it was a pretty decent movie, not all that bad of one to spend a boring, lonely night watching.

A Z-movie not worth your time, if you are not a great fan of Julie Strain. She is the leading character in the story (to talk about a story in a mess like this is probably be very positive on this movie) and the movie revolves around her aces (i.e., a wonderful pair of breasts). She is good in the role of the good-hearted high class prostitute, coming from the lowest level of the post-holocaust humanity presented in this movie (a clash with a meteorite has destroyed life as we know it and the survivors are divided in classes like Time Machine's Morlocks and Eloi, but this time the good ones are the humblest of the survivor), and she gives her fan plenty to remember about, with several nude scenes, but the mess she is in is really astonishingly bad. A classical Corman new-era made for video movie, but one of the worst I have seen (and if you want to see Julie in all her glory, buy one of her Penthouse videos instead)

Not bad considering the low budget, but considering the title, Julie Strain does very little fighting, which was a disappointment, but her body is amazing for a woman nudging 40. Standard 'B' movie fare with the standout performance coming from a nunchuk wielding kung fu dominatrix played by Eva Dawn Nemeth. Unfortunately, like Strain she doesn't have enough action in this movie - and incredibly the pair of them don't face each other in combat!. This could have been a sleaze masterpiece, but as it is, fans of low budget sci -fi it won't be disappointed.