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Preacher Kevin Sorbo's family is killed by evil town boss Wings Hauser's hired goons, after a family of homesteaders take refuge in his church. Not wanting to soil their memory by seeking vengeance, he instead becomes a bounty hunter in order to sate his desire for revenge, that is until he finds a real reason to take on the despicable Hauser and his villainous cronies.

A religion friendly movie, this is a bit familiar but it's well written with lots of comic book style action. Sorbo is surprisingly good as a western hero and Hauser is great too as an urbane, educated heavy.

In all, Avenging Angel is quite enjoyable but the climax is a little too tame. The final scene between Hauser and Sorbo is good though.

I will agree that Kevin Sorbo has come into his own in the acting arena. He is quite the leading man in the made for television romance field. He does well with the material. In fact everyone one in the film did well with what they had. Cynthia Watros is lovely as usual as the ever present whore with the heart of gold. Nick Chinlund is always good whether he plays good guy or bad guy and what can you say about Wings Hauser. He is always wonderfully psychotic even if he is playing it low key. I got a little annoyed at the dialog between the male and female leads, they just did not have enough together time for me to believe that they were made for each other in that redeemed way these films have. All in all an OK way to spend 2 hours.

A new preacher joins a small town to raise a family when his dreams are shattered by the local gang of hired guns who report to a retired military man (Colonel) who's corrupt. It's a lesson of how the freedoms of early settlers were challenged by a man who is focused on destroying their dreams and pure personal enrichment to no end. Well written movie and Kevin Sorbo was the perfect Actor for his character as their savior.

Kevin Sorbo borrows quite a bit from Clint Eastwood's classic High Plains Drifter in this rather incredulous western where he gets to play The Avenging Angel. Kevin's apparently trying very hard to get away from being typecast as Hercules because there's not a scene in this film with his shirt off.

What we're asked to believe here is that the local Ponderosa owner Wings Hauser has sold off pieces of his real estate giving no bill of sale and then just killing them if they don't get off his land. Now he has this group of pacifist type settlers led by Jim Haynie and son Richard Lee Jackson and if a group ever needed protection this one does.

Enter Kevin Sorbo whose church was dynamited and his wife and daughter killed by Hauser. Sorbo has gone away, but now is back as a fast draw bounty hunter who still is troubled by the tenets of his former profession.

That sets it up for you, an incredible piece of claptrap which God Bless 'Em the players all do with a straight face.

Modest but decent. The old flavor of fair western, sure, in sketch form but not so bad ( only pretty unrealistic and didactic ) for define it as real dissapointment.

For me, the option to see it was result of the presence of Kevin Sorbo in cast. I appreciated the presence of large themes, from the corupt sheriff to the single mother with a dark past, I appreciated the portrait of lonely revenger and, I admitt, I do not expected more.

So, difficult to recomand it ( if the nostalgia about old Hercules series is absent ) , unfair to be too critic about it.

In short, a simple story of justice, a pastor and his new beginning, his new family like in a kind of version of job story.