Vengeance: A Love Story

Nicolas Cage is out for blood in Vengeance: A Love Story. When the trial of four young men who brutally raped and beat a single mother goes south and it looks like they’ll get off, the cop who rescued the woman goes rogue in order to get justice. Anna Hutchison gives an incredibly strong performance and Cage is pretty impressive as well (though he’s more of a supporting character). And, Don Johnson is also rather good as a sleazy defense attorney. However, the script is a little uneven and oddly paced; with Cage falling in and out of the plot, and kind of just snapping in order to go on his rampage. Still, the directing is especially well-done; particularly the sexual assault and courtroom drama scenes, which are extremely evocative and hard to watch. It has some problems, but Vengeance: A Love Story is a captivating thriller.

This could've been much better, but I liked the idea of killing your local rapist(s). I just wished he had finished the job by killing their mother, their attorney, and the judge.

While its fun to see Cage dispensing some Southern justice, this isn't a great movie. Could have been a modern Dirty Harry, but the script is too weird, resembling the ridiculous Death Wish movies in it's dumb plotting.

A cardboard cut out of every revenge story ever.

Not even Cage can save it.

Oof. The story is hot garbage. The court/legal scenes are just not remotely credible. Some of the acting is above average but the mom is just over the top with everything she is called upon to do. She is really pretty and it makes the key rape scene viable in terms of why the bad guys did what they did and chose her. The daughter is pretty solid. Nic Cage is Nic Cage even though this wasn't his best performance by far. The grandma was awful. The DA was also poorly acted. And when you have this much terrible acting you can't help but put it on the director who is clearly incompetent. If you can't get Nic Cage to give an 8+ that's just awful. Don Johnson played a good slimy attorney. The judge was beyond the realm of credulity and just about every ruling he made would be overturned on appeal. The fact that they try to use a "my clients didn't do it" when there is a credible eye witness, DNA & fingerprint evidence, and the defendants bragging about doing it all around town and this supposed extremely high-priced attorney tries the "the girl tried to sell herself and then swung as the 4 large ass men so they beat her to a pulp after consensual sex" is laughably idiotic. They were identified straight away in a line-up and the no one even considers the fact that they're admitting to the crime of solicitation or to ask them how much they paid and why no money was found with the victim who was left almost brain dead...I just can't. The thing that sucks is that this could've been a decent movie had the director been decent and the writers had ANY experience even watching Law&Order. I mean hell at one point the mom of 2 of the idiot defendants yells to the press blaming the victim for the fact that her two sons went missing while out on bail. That would go over like a lead balloon in a small town where the jury pool knows about the crime and will see pics of a tiny woman beat to near death the night of the attack.

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This is the final point for Nicholas Cage's career. Rating 1/10 Weak Sauce :(
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To je konečný bod pro kariéru Nicolas Cage. Hodnocení 1/10 ODPAD :(