With often engrossing dialogue, Luna's characterization is rich and often times interesting and this is helped by the strong performances from its cast. Krystal Summers is very good as the heroine Bubbles who is kidnapped and raped by a homophobic man who returns to torment her and finish the job after he and his friends lure her and her two other girlfriends to a warehouse. Luna makes good on his promise of this being exploitation as the beating sequences are often horrific and offers up a slight edge with the observation that what's happening before our eyes is not only a sex crime but a hate crime. On the flipside he never takes the story too seriously so there's not a preach fest, only a revenge thriller. Kelexis Davenport is the stand out as the matriarchal transgendered friend Pinky who watches over her friends and is never afraid to get her fingers dirty engaging in a really entertaining fight scene. All in all "Ticked off Trannies" is a bit of a karma trip with Luna invoking grindhouse tropes and giving his target audience about the best experience as he can while also sticking to the classic revenge movie formula. As a lover of revenge flicks, and grindhouse, I had a definite good time with "Ticked-Off Trannies" and Luna is a director to watch for

While I do enjoy Luna's style, too often he seems reliant on tapping the styles of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez to create a faux-grindhouse atmosphere that sometimes isn't as pleasant or as much of a compliment to the story as Luna thinks it will be. While the grindhouse film scratches and dialogue skips are amusing, more often than not they're immensely distracting and never quite add to the experience at all. Meanwhile Luna has a difficult time filming action sequences as fight scenes are shaky and hard to focus in on, and Luna resorts to hand held directing that is distracting and not as gritty as Luna seems to think it is. In the end the foot shots, extended dialogue scenes with Luna revolving around the characters, and observations on pop culture are very derivative and it would have been much more interesting if Luna would have showed off his unique style rather than taking from Tarantino's own. Meanwhile Luna can never seem to decide the tone of his own film often depicting it as an action movie, then a revenge thriller, then a kung fu movie, then a comedy, and back to a thriller again. Luna seems to want to fit in so many themes that he never focus in on a proper tone and allow the audience to decide if they want to giggle or soak in the severity of this vicious crime.