Review: Black Cat is an action movie that is very similar to La Femme Nikita, in a sense of the context where a woman is trained to be a killer by a secret group. This movie has received many bad reviews because it kind of copies La Femme Nikita. The story line is basic but you are left with a lot of unanswered questions during the entire movie. You don't know why she is killing anyone or who this secret group is.

The story mostly revolves around Catherine but several key characters come into play during the movie. She starts off with little background but there is a great deal of character evolution that follows. From the moment she kills someone by accident, to her imprisonment to finally becoming a killer, she goes through a lot. The psychological aspect of the character could have been better developed and exploited. The secondary support characters were pretty ordinary and they were there mostly for support. We must mention the American characters, like in most older Chinese movies, the American are pretty stupid and dumb looking. That just made things extremely cheesy and ruined most of the movie because a good portion of the movie takes place in the US.

There was some action in the movie and it was pretty decent, from gun fights to covert operation. The action was maybe the only strong point in the movie as the rest of it was pretty ordinary. Some of the fight scenes were pretty nice but in general nothing really exciting. As for the covert ops, you have very few of them and they were very basic but even with the simplicity some were pretty interesting.