Angel of Reckoning

I have no real issue with low budget. In fact, given a great script and one room as a set with good direction and editing you can make a good film for under a thousand. Sadly, this film had none of those things and I was being generous giving it a rating of 2. Now, I rarely blame the actors as a bad director can easily manage to make the greats come across as talentless. The editing deserves special mention as they hadn't even bothered to cut sound correctly with some dialogue spoken at a distance from the microphone being used in closeup. Sadly, you really need to give this one a miss. Bad editing, a terrible script and brutal direction leaves nothing worthwhile in its wake.

You may be wondering why I am giving this an 8/10 rating when I called it low budget exploitation trash. That's my rating for fans of that sort of movie. This is made for people who like low budget exploitation trash.

This has everything you want in low budget exploitation trash. There's a ton of nudity. There's a ton of action scenes and flying blood. It's gratuitously sleazy. It's not a great movie or even a good one by normal standards but it's very entertaining. This may be the epitome of a Len Kabasinski movie. Low budget, cheesy, trashy, sleazy and entertaining as hell. If you like that kind of movie, this is great. If not, I wouldn't bother.

A military woman returns home after a terrible ordeal only to have her niece commit suicide. She later learns it was because her coked out boyfriend sold their personal sex tape to a website and people from school seen it. The aunt gets a job as a stripper and buys an Uzi all in the name of revenge.

This film had potential but it was hard to get past the stale acting. You sort of forget about reality and watch her neat and tidy revenge. Most of the violence are bullets to the head and knees.

The film is watchable and laughable as well but I would save watching this one unless you had absolutely nothing else to watch.

When the lesbian military Rachel Baldwin (Jessica Kabasinski) returns home, she is welcomed by her niece Jamie (Khila Freeman) that introduces her boyfriend Ryan (Hunter Wieczorek) to her. During the night, Jamie and Ryan have sex and he proposes to film their intercourse. Then Rick meets his dealer to buy cocaine, but he does not have money and offers the footage instead. The film is sold to a porn site and Jamie commits suicide. Now Rachel uses the alias Angel to revenge her beloved niece.

"Angel of Reckoning" is one of those low-budget movies that the viewer regrets watching. The curious title and the horror genre indicated in IMDb may make the user disregard the 3.2 rating expecting to see a decent movie. However the story of revenge (not horror), screenplay and the direction are terrible and everything is low quality and painful to watch: performances, fight choreography, cinematography, location, edition, dialogues. Why is necessary to show Rachel as lesbian? Jessica Kabasinski is not beautiful woman but at least is hot in her costumes.. If you see this film without pressing the fast- forward button, you may be considered a hero. My vote is three.

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The first odd part of the movie was a "vet" got off a bus and no one greeted her. She walked to a forest where she found her family playing volleyball. Her family greeted her like she was just gone from a long overseas trip. She was in no way thanked for her service. Then the movie gets weirder. The vet's sister (who is also called her niece) lets her boyfriend film her while they have intercourse. The boyfriend, who is addicted to cocaine, sells the recording to a drug dealer. The younger sister (via magic) finds out that the recording was sold on the black market and takes her own life. The older "vet" sister decides to kill everyone involved with the video distribution. This was just building the plot of the story. Nothing was spoiled. It's hard to argue that a person taking their own life is someone else's fault. There's no revenge necessary because the sister killed herself. Who is this "vet" showing any reckoning to by killing people? The storyline makes no sense and before that, no one caring that this vet returned from serving. The story was odd.

There is a gun dealer who looks like a striper and in her scene she's torturing some random guy tied to a chair. Her story seemed more interesting than the actual plot.

Would I recommend this movie? If you don't mind a lack of plot and want to watch a pretty girl senselessly kill people because they are "bad" (who are arguably victims of circumstance) than have at it. Otherwise, this is probably not a movie for you.