Donato and Daughter

A Teflon Tough Cop (Charles Bronson) and his estranged, no less resourceful Cop daughter (Dana Delaney) querulously join forces in order to capture a deranged serial killer (Xander Berkeley) in this entertainingly zippy 90s TV thriller. While the pulpy text is all too familiar, the director's pacing is brisk, the performances are engaging, and, quite frankly, I can never tire of watching the dyspeptic Don of vengeance, Charles Bronson kick butt!!!! By no means an exemplar of Bronson's inimitable felon-fragging ouvre, but well worth a boggle if you are a Bronson fan who missed this one. Gifted character actor Xander Berkeley is on smarmily sinister form as the psycho yuppie with a perverse habit of sending nuns to their maker! Another fine synth score from Sylvester Levay keeps this gripping L. A. Set procedural ticking along nicely until its satisfyingly dramatic conclusion.

Okay, the start was awkward, stilted, bad dialogue, bad directing and bad acting(which may have not been the actors faults). I have always like Dana Delany, but it was a difficult watch in the beginning. However, it does get better and a good watch by the end. If you choose to watch this, IMO, this is what to watch for during the movie. Xander Berkeley is very good. Bonnie Bartlett is great. Richard Kuss is very good in his small role. And Jullianna McCarthy gives a wonderful performance as the psychopath's mother. The other actors is their lesser roles are also very good. And that helps if you plan on watching this movie. The end scene was what you might expect for a made for TV movie.

The title of my comments is a phrase that I have heard in the movie, coming from the mouth of little Cal. And I think that is an awful phrase to come from a little kid... It reflects perfectly the quality of the present movie, which can not decide if it wants to be a police adventure or a family drama. The fact is that it does not work as either of them. I have not read the book, but the script is really terrible, full of stereotypes and vacuums. In my opinion Charles Bronson's movies are getting worse and worse as he gets older.

Another excellent Bronson cop thriller & yes it may be a t.v movie but IT'S still an exciting crime thriller!!! Bronson is always great & he's one of my favourite actors & i love most of his movies especially the excellent Death Wish franchise. Here the great screen presence of Bronson is in t.v production & later he did the Excellent family of cops trilogy all t.v flicks but it doesn't take away from the quality & feel of the movie & Donato and daughter is a quality suspense cop thriller with another excellent performance by Bronson as a tough old timer cop who gets tangled up working with his daughter who is also a cop played excellently by Dana Delany she's a really good actress works perfectly With Bronson!!! There is a very sick killer committing horrendous crimes even to nuns & basically it's father & daughter team of cops to track this evil killer down,so it's basic cop thriller territory but done really well with a creepy atmosphere & a really good music score & that is so important in a detective Thriller to score the mood right & create an atmosphere & this excellent little cop film does that perfectly. I really enjoyed this film it was edgy & dark without showing all the gore,it had the mood & fear factor just right & the family drama was done really well with the donato's & you actually care about these characters & really want the sick killer caught or executed!!! So yes another great Bronson film, a great cop thriller & an excellent performance by the legendary Bronson.

Bronson copped it by the critics during the 80s for his work with cannon, but his fans stuck with him and while I wouldn't call them masterpieces they were still entertaining. Then into the nineties he was mainly involved in TV productions, but again these were a lot better than I expected. And I mean a lot. For a standard made-for-TV presentation; "Relative Danger" was an engrossingly glum crime drama, even with the routine scenarios and blaring stereotypes. This can be attributed to Charles Bronson's steadfast performance, along with his convincing chemistry alongside a hearty Dana Delany (playing his on- screen daughter).

In Los Angeles nuns are being brutally raped and murdered. This sees the pairing up of father and daughter, Mike and Dina Donato. Meaning they must work pass their past differences and frosty relationship, as they plan to tempt the killer out of hiding and into an elaborate trap they've set. However this killer goes about trying to twist it back onto the detectives, while getting somewhat personal.

Adapted off the novel of Jack Early, the script is heavy on family drama (giving it much needed weight) while at the same time balancing the disquieting serial killer framework with the investigative groundwork. What makes it work is because everything is kept grounded and the toying cat-and-mouse element between the Donatos and the serial killer (a perfectly neurotic Xander Berkeley) thrillingly punches away. You do get to see Bronson hand out some psychical punishment… vintage Bronson too. Rod Holcomb is competent in his direction letting the action and drama smoothly unfold with some sweeping camera-work capping it off. There's quite solid cast in support; Jenette Goldstein, Marc Alaimo, Tom Verica, Robert Gossett, Michael Cavanaugh and Bonnie Bartlett.

"Where was her god when this happened?!"