It only works if it's done in a believable and realistic manner, which would require her to be extremely fit (very powerful calves and forearm muscles), terribly quick (Bruce Lee quick), and know how to hit his vitals before he could react.

But that's not how these movies play out because the actresses they get for these roles aren't fighters, so none of their make-believe feminist power-fantasies look remotely believable.

I also bring up the point about the realism factor because I was watching some of the fights from Street Beefs recently and you can see how smaller skilled fighters can beat larger, unskilled muscle-heads. But in these movies the muscle-heads these 100lbs females are fighting are supposed to be skilled assassins/guards/contractors, and so when you see someone like Jolie beating them up using sloppily thrown punches and weak toothpick-thin kicks, none of it looks remotely believable.

It only works if it's done in a believable and realistic manner, which would require her to be extremely fit (very powerful calves and forearm muscles), terribly quick (Bruce Lee quick), and know how to hit his vitals before he could react.

But that's not how these movies play out because the actresses they get for these roles aren't fighters, so none of their make believable feminist power-fantasies look remotely believable.

I also bring up the point about the realism factor because I was watching some of the fights from Street Beefs recently and you can see how smaller skilled fighters can beat larger, unskilled muscle-heads. But in these movies the muscle-heads these 100lbs females are fighting are supposed to be skilled assassins/guards/contractors, and so when you see someone like Jolie beating them up using sloppily thrown punches and weak toothpick-thin kicks, none of it looks remotely believable.