Very disappointing...

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This has the production values of a 70s TV show, except with more fake blood to splash around. It makes Chuck Norris's revisionist Vietnam movies seem like Saving Private Ryan by comparison. Everything and everyone is a badly acted cartoon. I bet they shot this whole movie in a week. There is one marginally compelling reason to watch this movie - Pam Grier's fabulous, um, everything except the Afro. Goodness she was fine.

From story authors Jonathan Demme & Joe Viola, screenwriter H.R. Christian, and the prolific Eddie Romero, comes this diverting Filipino chase movie that puts an exploitative spin on the premise of "The Defiant Ones".It starts out as your average women in prison flick, with blonde revolutionary Karen Brent (Margaret Markov) and black prostitute Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) meeting. While escorted away from the prison, they are shackled together. They soon make their break for freedom, often arguing over methodology and directions but coming to rely on each other and even care for each other.Director Romero makes this a pretty lively affair, and it's worth noting that things take on a rather tongue in cheek tone at times. The ample humour helps to make this quite easy to watch, with Pams' frequent co-star Sid Haig given a meaty role which he plays with relish: a flamboyant, horny, loud talking dude in a cowboy costume. Romeros' pacing is effective, and the action scenes are fairly intense; there are some brief bursts of bloody violence. The location shooting is excellent, and the supporting cast features some familiar faces from Filipino exploitation cinema: Eddie Garcia, Alfonso Carvajal, Bruno Punzalan, and the always welcome Vic Diaz, who's a hoot as an oily crime lord. Sexy Lynn Borden has the role of a lustful prison guard. Stars Markov and Grier look fantastic and get some great chemistry going.The true highlight of the movie definitely has to be the sequence where Markov and Grier masquerade as nuns; it provides the biggest laughs. But it must be said that Romero knows how to get down to business, delivering delectable nudity in the obligatory shower scene that occurs no more than four minutes into the movie.All in all, this is solid entertainment that should please fans of the A.I.P. drive-in flicks of the 1970s.Seven out of 10.

An island under a totalitarian government. The island has certain areas run by very wealthy pimps who even service members of their government from time to time. A small band of rebels plan to overthrow their government but need arsenal that a beautiful revolutionary can get them if she can reach a specific city where her contacts are. Getting there will be a problem when a successful escape suffers a snag..she's shackled to another prisoner, prostitute Lee Daniels(Pam Grier). The revolutionary is Karen Brent(..the stunning Margaret Markov). Lee has a destination herself..a boat awaiting her to leave the island with an associate of ruthless pimp Vic Cheng(Vic Diaz). The film ultimately features the adventures of Lee and Karen, with nothing but a long shirt and panties, as they journey through the jungles of the island, avoiding capture as a manhunt for them is under way. The "minister"(..the political figure who rules over the island, never seen)wants the prisoners captured dead or alive because Karen could be a very vital key in endangering his powerful grip over the island. Capt Cruz(Eddie Garcia)enlists the aide of pimp cowboy Ruben(Sid Haig)and his army of cronies to find them, a hefty award for the capture if they succeed. Vic also, along with his goons, plan to intercept Lee if she attempts to escape on her friend's boat. Ernesto(Zaldy Zshornack)is the leader of the revolutionary group who seek after Karen.I'll be honest, it sure wasn't difficult to enjoy a film which features Pam Grier and Margaret Markov running through one perilous situation after another in nothing but a long shirt. Their disguises as nuns is hilarious. Lots of various groups shooting at each other, each leader attempting to get after Lee or Karen, or both. Haig as a grinning pimp in a cowboy costume obviously steals his scenes. While the revolutionaries desire to fight their corrupt and powerful government, Ernesto and company find themselves instead squaring off with both Haig and Vic's regime before all is said and done. Grim conclusion has one prisoner succeeding while another's fate is sealed when she attempts to help the other. I had thought, at first, it might be another sleazy women-in-prison film as Lee and Karen become objects of desire for a lesbian security guard(..the delicious Lynn Borden who even has a scene where she gets all hot and bothered watching her prisoners bathe!), but soon the plot shifts towards two escapees running for their life, evading capture. Karen has one very clever method of escaping the scent of dogs through the use of her panties.It seems director Eddie Romero desires to initiate the same element of fun associated with Jack Hill's popular cult films. I haven't seen them(..the Women's Penitentiery movies)but it seems to feature familiar faces and aspects recognizable in Hill's output before this film. I can't claim to have seen a great number of these films featuring Grier as a prisoner(..with Sam Haig popping up in some colorful part), but I enjoyed this one for what it was.

This is one heck of a sleazy film. Like so many "women in chains" films, this one is chock full of lesbianism. However, unlike most prior films, which strongly implied this, BLACK MAMA, WHITE MAMA shows an awful lot of skin as a horny female prison guard leers at the women as they shower as well as has sex with one of the inmates. For the early 1970s, this is definitely a soft-core pornographic film--sort of like GIRLS GONE WILD GOES TO PRISON! It's also a bad rip-off of THE DEFIANT ONES, though in this case it's two hot females who hate each other who are chained together when they escape. Whereas the original film is considered a classic, this one can only be considered a classic example of bad taste. That's because there is no subtlety and the movie is just cheap--cheap thrills, cheap writing and very cheap acting.Pam Grier is the "black inmate with an attitude"--a lady who was set up and sent to prison on this hellish island. Margaret Markov is a revolutionary. When they escape, they both can't stand each other and have opposite goals. However, since it is cliché-driven, there's really no surprise in how the film ends--with their both becoming (gag me) friends.