Gene Generation (2007)

Bai Ling has made a career out of being the hot oriental babe in movies (Lost, Southland Tales, The Breed, Wild Wild West, The Crow, etc), but it is nicer to see her in a starring role. Bai is an assassin sometime in the future, and she mostly targets DNA hackers, while her younger brother has a gambling problem, and her neighbour is a DNA scientist in hiding. The stories overlap and collide with Bai trying to save or seduce everyone.

Bai looks fantastic in her big boots and fetish wear, especially when her guns are bigger than her clothes. Ling joins the list of loveable, lithe ladies who have squeezed themselves in to seductively tight and erotic outfits for our viewing pleasure (Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux, Milla Jovovich in Ultraviolet, Kate Beckinsdale in Underworld, etc) and she deserves to be more widely appreciated for her efforts. Why is it in the future people always were leather and rubber and go to goth clubs where industrial bands play? (Combichrist are this film’s featured band) Is today’s underground scene somehow going to become the mainstream? Gene Generation is slower and less interesting than it should be, and the CGI is abysmal, but Bai’s eruptions of violence (and her nipples) make up for everything.