The Vengeance A Love Story



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The Vengeance: A Love Story
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Walking home with her 12-year-old daughter after midnight on the Fourth of July, Teena crosses paths with some local losers to be brutally gang raped with her daughter Bethie watching. Bethie is able to identify the rapists, but when the rapists hire a hot shot attorney who attacks Teena&#39;s character, Dromoor, a local police officer who was first on the scene when police were called, starts to take matters into his own hands.
A gulf war veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother.
Nicolas Cage isn&#39;t the most reliable actor when it comes to putting out good films. He was huge in the 90&#39;s, releasing blockbuster after blockbuster, but lately, he&#39;s fallen on hard times. While &quot;Vengeance: A Love Story&quot; couldn&#39;t be called a blockbuster, it is a very solid crime drama.<br/><br/>Cage is low key, but very effective, as the hero cop, out to avenge the rape of a single mom, which also led to her daughter being assaulted. He has pain behind his eyes. There&#39;s a rather good scene where the scum who attacked the single mom are let free, and we see Cage sitting on a bench in the court, tapping his hand, his teeth gritted. We know hell is coming for the offenders.<br/><br/>Talitha Bateman and Anna Hutchison, who play the daughter and mother victims, are excellent in their roles and really make the audience feel for them. They do such a good job, that we can&#39;t help but cheer when Cage blows the dirt bags away. <br/><br/>Bateman and Cage also share a rather touching scene in the closing moments of the film that elevates the pic above the standard DTV fodder Cage has been in of late. <br/><br/>If the film has any faults, it&#39;d be the threadbare production values and some of the &quot;let&#39;s shoot it quick and get outta here&quot; camera work. But i was happy to let that go because I was so engrossed in the story. <br/><br/>Overall, &quot;Vengeance: A Love Story&quot; is one of Cage&#39;s better films and is definitely worth checking out if you&#39;re in the mood for a gritty revenge flick.
The movie itself isn&#39;t horrible. Its not great or memorable either. Pretty lazy actually. It doesn&#39;t push boundaries or take us anywhere we haven&#39;t already been someone nailed it earlier when they said if there is nothing else on then this could be worth a watch. <br/><br/>My biggest issue with this movie was the incredibly stupid court scene. Don Johnson plays a suave lawyer who makes the boot DA look like a chump. The judge is entirely dismissive of the rape victim and treats her so poorly that she would end up a millionaire after all the lawsuits were done. At the end of this horribly written scene, Johnson stands and gives some speech presenting an alternate version of what happened that is so implausible a band of chimps wouldnt buy it. Instead of being tossed out of court, Johnson is applauded everyone in the room. Its a head scratching moment that really makes you wonder if the writer had ever been in a court. Well i have bern in plenty and have never seen anything remotely close to that.<br/><br/>All in all, if you keep your expectations low, you wont be disappointed. Going into any Cage movie, they should be low anyways.

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