Directed by:
Johnny MartinCinematography:
David StragmeisterComposer:
Frederik WiedmannCast:
Nicolas Cage, Anna Hutchison, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Don Johnson, Deborah Kara Unger, Joshua Mikel, Elena Sanchez, Michael Papajohn, Emily Sandifer (more)VOD (1)
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Niagra Falls police detective and Iraq war veteran John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage) is flagged down by a 12 year old girl after she witnesses her mother, Teena, being brutally attacked and left for dead by a group of local men. When the men are caught, their parents hire slick criminal defence attorney Jay Kirkpatrick, (Don Johnson) who puts the focus on Teena s credibility, based on her sobriety and promiscuity. Shockingly her assailants are exonerated and released, even though the daughter s testimony should have alone been enough for a certain conviction. In the aftermath of the verdict Dromoor grows increasingly close to the victim and her family, who he then discovers are being taunted and stalked by the freed men. The injustice becomes too much for him to take and fuelled by a sense of vengeance and his own personal demons, Dromoor sets out on a lone campaign to serve the justice the men deserve. (101 Films)
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I guess I have a fetish; every now and then, I search for Nicolas Cage movies and then tell people that they’re not that bad. But he has a bit of a problem these days. He’s been shooting awful B movies. But these B movies are aware that they’re B movies and so they’re not so bad for a B movie in general. Just like this one. What can you expect from a movie with such a stupid name that it specifically has to tell you that it’s both a love story and a vengeance… Nicolas, however, is completely okay and since he begins to take revenge, the movie gets into some pretty solid levels of vengeance, therefore delivering what the title has promised. And since I noticed that Nicolas has produced this movie as well, I almost feel as if he specifically aimed to shoot similar movies. I don’t know about him, but in my opinion, this was one of the better movies of his unsinkable five-movies-a-year ship.
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I'll admit to having a sadistic weakness for these low-budget B-movies that try to be terribly serious and an ambitious director vehemently tries to weave a whip out of manure, but the manure falls through his fingers, crumbles to the floor, and when it sticks together, doesn't snap at all like it should. Vengeance: Never Go Full Retard Name has some spectacular, uncompromising scenes and shots that make it clear that, unlike the rest of the crew, at least the director was taking the whole project at least a little seriously. So the opening (and otherwise completely unnecessary) shot of the villain or the execution of the last villain, for example, will having you nodding your approval. The rest of the film is a terrible mess, with terrible direction of poor quality actors (whoever cast the mother of the rowdy brothers should surrender his casting card), a bizarre order of scenes, and absolutely no gradation. But seeing Nicolas Cage in something like this again after a long time is a treat comparable to visiting a museum of torture instruments, so I'll live with it.
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I just like revenge movies, and when the bastards are really portrayed as bastards, I like it even more. Nicolas Cage is getting older, but he still pulls it off, and when he takes down the first one, it's just a fantastic scene. I don't care if this could realistically happen because it's entertaining enough to watch.
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