It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If this is the cast, then Robert Rodriguez should feel very flattered right now. In fact, every time that someone watches Nude Nuns with Big Guns (which, hopefully, won't be very often), Rodriguez should sit up in bed due to the overwhelming since of flattery. The movie goes far beyond a homage and attempts to be a Robert Rodriguez movie. But, we quickly learn, this is easier said than done.

Nude Nuns with Big Guns takes place in what appears to be Mexico and it exists in a world where the Catholic church is a front for drug smuggling. Nuns, such as Sister Sarah (Asun Ortega) work to process the drugs and priests like Father Bernardo (Maz Siam) and Father Carlittos (Perry D'Marco) then give the drugs to a vicious bike gang lead by Chavo (David Castro). When a drug delivery goes wrong, Father Bernardo gives Sister Sarah to Chavo as a peace offering. The biker takes her back to his bar (which has a name very similar to the main bar in From Dusk Till Dawn, another Robert Rodriguez movie), and puts her to work. He also keeps her high. Mr. Foo (Maxie J. Santillan Jr.) takes pity on Sister Sarah and spirits her away from the bar, and detoxs her. Now sober, Sister Sarah claims that she had a vision from God who instructed her to kill those who sin. Now heavily armed, Sister Sarah begins to search out the churches where the drugs are processed and take down the corrupt priests. Chavo gets word of this and sends his men after Sister Sarah.

If you stumbled across Nude Nuns with Big Guns on late-night cable, for a few minutes, you might think that it was another entry in the El Mariachi /Desperado/Once Upon a Time in Mexico cycle. However, after a few moments, you would quickly realize that while this has the look of a Robert Rodriguez movie, it doesn't have the vibe. Rodriguez's Mexico movies are, for the most part, action movies which occasionally take a serious turn. But, those serious scenes aside, the movies have a tongue-in-cheek, playful nature. The action is over-the-top, such as the bar gunfight in Desperado, and Rodriguez knows that we are in on the joke.

Co-writer/Director Joseph Guzman clearly wants to replicate this formula, but he completely forgot about the fun part. Nude Nuns with Big Guns is an incredibly mean-spirited movie, which seems more interested in wallow in squalor than entertaining. The movie features multiple rapes, forced drug use, and cold-blooded murder. Despite the fact that the movie has an armed heroine at its core, this is an incredibly misogynistic movie which shows women being mistreated at every turn. Not only are they mistreated, they are often topless as well. This is supposed to be an action movie, but it leans much further towards a soft-core erotic movie and it reminded me of the female-only movies which grace Cinemax. In fact, when going back through the movie to check the bitrate and the audio, I noticed that there's hardly any action in the film save for the last few minutes.

Nude Nuns with Big Guns clearly has a lot of issues with the church or simply wants to seem controversial on Blu-ray Disc courtesy of Image Entertainment. The film has been letterboxed at 1.85:1 and the Disc contains an AVC 1080p HD transfer which runs at an average of 20 Mbps. The image is sharp and clear, showing no intrusive grain and no defects from the source material. I get the feeling that this was shot on HD cameras, as the image is very crisp in the daytime external shots. The colors look good, and the picture is never overly dark or bright. The level of detail is nice and the picture is never soft. The Disc carries a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track which runs at 48 kHz and an average of 1.8 Mbps. This never sounds like an HD 5.1 track. The audio is muffled. You don't truly realize how muffled it is until you go back to the main menu and it's suddenly incredibly loud. The bulk of the sound comes from the front and center channels. There is no notable subwoofer action and the gunshots in the movie pack no punch.

The Nude Nuns with Big Guns Blu-ray Disc contains only two extra features. We start with the original Nude Nuns with Big Guns short film (4 minutes), which is an early version of a scene from later in the finished movie. Surprisingly, it's just as graphic as the full-length film. The other extra is the TRAILER for the movie.