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The Retaliators

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An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.

Status: Released

Released Date: 2022-09-08

Runtime: 96 mins

Director: Samuel Gonzalez Jr., Bridget Smith

Writer: Jeff Allen Geare, Darren Geare

Spoken language: English

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Action

Original title: The Retaliators

Production Companies: Better Noise Films

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Michael Lombardi

Marc Menchaca

Joseph Gatt

Katie Kelly

Abbey Hafer

Jacoby Shaddix

Robert Knepper

Robert John Burke

Spencer Charnas

Ivan L. Moody

Zoltan Bathory

Chris Kael

Amanda Lyberg

Doc Coyle

Reviews

Geronimo1967

Michael Lombardi is the aptly named "Bishop" - he's a rural pastor - who traditionally shuns confrontation and generally encourages others to do the same. Until, that is, his daughter has a run in with a gangland hoodlum who has a car stashed with cocaine, loot - and a man who is not in great shape. She attempts to flee but while being chased chooses to ring her dad, rather than 911 (or maybe drive off in the general direction of the police station!?). Anyway, the remainder of this terribly lacklustre revenge thriller follows dad's attempts to avenge his daughter. For a previously gentle man, he adapts to the brutality of his new environment with an ease that made me think that if Sigourney Weaver had had him in the "Alien" films, those acid bleeding critters wouldn't have lasted twenty minutes. That's really the problem here. The scenario is just daft. Right from the get go when we have an altercation over a Christmas tree through to the very end, it's all just predictable and implausible tosh. The acting is college project standard, as is the writing and the direction. Indeed, quite how this got a cinema release at all is a far more worthy and ponderous question than anything raised by the script. Nope, I really wouldn't bother.

2022-09-17

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