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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John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage), Niagara Falls police detective and veteran of the Iraq War, comes to the aid of a young girl after she sees her mother Teena (Anna Hutchison) beaten and left for dead by a gang of thugs. In court, the attackers are represented by criminal defence attorney Jay Kirkpatrick (Don Johnson) whose rebukes are focused on Teena's sobriety and promiscuity in an attempt to discredit her on the stand. Her daughter's testimony alone should be sufficient evidence for convictions yet somehow the men are released without charge. As he cares for Teena and her daugher in the wake of this injustice, John realises that the thugs are still stalking them. Refusing to accept the outcome of the trial, and spurred on by his own troubled mind, John decides to take the law into his own hands. (Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)
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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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