Ms. 45 is a punk band that seems like they fight the audience as much as they play songs. Sisters Emma (Emily Alatalo) and Amy (Michelle Argyris) only get along when they’re on the stage, while Cassie (Kiriana Stanton) and Jill (Chelsea Muirhead) get along so well that they’re expecting a child. However, on their first tour, they run into Sam (Jason Rouse). They are soon recruited into the army of gladiators that battle for glory in his father, The Emperor’s (Julian Richings) kingdom, which is probably somewhere under Iowa.

But you know, with chainsaws for arms and robot legs, kind of like an import Tokyo Gore Police without the willingness to be as offensive as possible. Sure, faces get chainsawed off, and there’s one incredible moment — spoiler — where a fetus is kept in a jar, removed from one of the girls.

I did, however, like Driller (Ryan Allen), the only gladiator who has ever earned his freedom. And inside this, there’s plenty that could make a much better movie with a willingness to go further as well as be more authentic when it comes to how women actually relate to the world and how punk rock bands work. That said, you can shut your mind off and enjoy a movie where women somehow end up with robot parts in a junkyard empire that’s been around for a hundred years. It’s not perfect, but did you expect it to be?

Director Andrew Thomas Hunt is a partner in Raven Banner and has helped several Canadian projects be released.

You can watch this on Tubi.