FEMALE FIGHT CLUB Exploitation Films, cert 15 DVD £15.99

You don’t mess with Amy Johnston (pictured), she’s a Hollywood stunt star and action stand-in for Scarlett Johansson. The film was directed by the late NCIS: Los Angeles star Miguel Ferrer, and it’s better than what the title suggests might just be a cash-in on the original Fight Club. The first half is a slow-burn as it sets the plot, but when it kicks into overdrive the girls pull no punches. Johnston plays ‘Bex’, an ex-illegal fight club champion who gave up the tough stuff when her dad (Dolph Lundgren) got sent to prison for murder. Big Dolph gets a short fight sequence as a limber-up to re-playing Ivan Drago in Creed 2 soon. Anyway, back to the story…Bex decides to get back in the fight game when her sister and former ring partner Kate is threatened by a crooked promoter over a debt. He lives to regret it!