(A new column dedicated to the projects of the truly singular Bai Ling)

In 2010’s Circle of Pain Bai Ling seems to follow the path laid out by her frequent social media posts and other recent roles in low budget B films. She attacks her character of Victoria Ruolan with a frenzied exuberance that ultimately spins her off into a totally different stratosphere than her frequently staid, one-dimensional co-stars. That Ruolan, a crooked manager of a fight league, is the piece’s villainess only seems to egg her on to more elaborate heights of defiance and sexuality. Seemingly basing her portrayal on controversial sports criminals like the WWE’s Vince McMahon, Ling is obviously enjoying commanding her stable of jock scene partners into all sorts of action here – including the very carnal kind.

Naturally, the plot itself follows the traditional filmic sports beats laid out by Sylvester Stallone in 1976’s Rocky. A retired, slightly disgraced boxer named Dalton Hunt (Tony Schiena) decides to challenge the current champion in an impossibly quick amount of time. When he resists Ruolan’s offers of assistance, relying instead on his own motley crew of trainers, violence and other serious pitfalls to winning quickly come his way. Of course, all that enforced resistance is for naught and, in a paint-by-numbers move, Ling gets to react to the disgrace of losing all that her guise has worked so hard to create in the final moments of this stereotypical yet fun presentation.

In fact, the only thing that might excite liberal B-Movie lovers more than Ling’s antics is watching real life Right Winger Dean Cain, playing one of Hunt’s defenders, get a parking lot beatdown that finds him relegated to bedridden pontifications for the middle part of the story.

Oh, well… We all know that Ling is the true super-person here, anyhow…right?!?!

Until the next time, SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

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