Tags: blog, film, comedy, action, recommended, 2025

Date: Thursday October 30th, 2025

Peachy Keen, Avril Lavigne

Two young Japanese women, one blonde, the other brunette, lazily pointing guns. They're dressed so casually in tracksuits they look like they're Oasis fans.

Going on holiday is a cliche of British sit-coms. Once the show has reached a peak of popularity, the time is ripe to cash in and make a movie. This almost always coincides with the show having run out of ideas. The solution: Take the cast abroad. All the characters you love but in a new, exotic, more expensive looking locale. It never works, it's always terrible.

So here's Baby Assassins 3, a series that struggled for ideas in it's second outing and oh look, they're going on holiday!

Except, Oh, the Baby Assassins crew have ideas. Big ones.

This time around, there's a much stronger focus on the action. The comedy is still there, producing laughs on a pretty consistent basis. Chisato and Mahiro are as adorable and goofy as ever. But it doesn't lounge around in their everyday attempts at adulting. Instead, these are the scenes that knits the action together.

And there's a concerted attempt to beef¹ up the fight scenes. It's starts off quickly with an absolutely blistering early set piece. It then builds via a burgeoning cast and variety of locations. Well thought out characterisation creates a believably cruel and nasty antagonist, cranking the tension as we get closer to the end.

And when we get there it explodes. There's a sense of real, palpable danger at the heart of the ending. Built up by growing affection for the duo over three whole films, which is then juxtaposed and threatened by a genuinely vicious bastard, the stakes feel real. You care.

The fight choreography is loose and scrappy. But not in the 'Jason Bourne' way of quick editing to hide the fact that these are stunt men instead of highly trained martial artists. Here, the director and fight choreographer trust that their actors are skilled enough to properly go for each other and make it look good on the fly. You can feel the air woosh past you as rapid punches narrowly miss their mark. Ones that do land look like they hurt. It has one of the best depictions of severe concussion I've seen in this genre.

The result is thrilling, exciting, brutal and scary.

Next up, in a reversal of the British sit-com cliche, Baby Assassins Everyday! the tv series. I can't wait.

Two young Japanese women looking absolutely boss in suits. The blonde woman has leopard print lapels, the brunette's is latin inspired and has a red bolo tie

Poster Credit Where to Watch

1. Spicy Miyazaki beef
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