It’s a typical ‘women in prison’ sexploitation flick for a while with catfights, showers and an aggressive guard with a lady-boner for the prisoners, but it changes to an on-the-run chase movie giving the two very different women their time in the spotlight. The pair, a black hooker and a white revolutionary, are pursued by three different parties as they make their way across an island. It even throws in a Western style shootout to keep things exciting.
The secondary characters have their own opposites and rivalries going on and there’s a well-defined distinction between who deserves our sympathies and who doesn't, even though no one is angelic.
More than the sum of its parts, BM,WM is another great Grier movie.
3½ strong links out of 5
