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      Angel Town

      R 1990 1h 41m Action List
      Reviews 38% 100+ Ratings Audience Score A French kickboxer (Olivier Gruner) protects a widow (Theresa Saldana) and her son (Frank Aragon) from gangs while attending college in Los Angeles. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member ***Spoilers Ahead, Maybe*** The only description I read before I watched this movie was *A tenant helps landlord fight local street gang* so I was hoping for a Death Wish 3 type of movie.Not even close.I guess I should've read more before I started watching.Anyways, Angel Town started off corny & most definitely laughable (The entire movie was laughable to be honest) There are alot of things that will either have you laughing, cringing, shaking your head & going WTF?! Seriously?! The fight scenes are the best (Ha Ha) There are just too many things to mention here (If you're thinking about watching the movie & don't want me to spoil it for you, stop reading here) Things don't really take a serious turn until the local gang leader kills his girlfriend & tries to frame Jacques with her murder by planting her body in his room so Jacques turns around & gives her body right back to him by placing her body in the gang leader's caddy, while hiding in his garage.After that things got real & the movie takes on a darker turn.This is when I started actually getting into the movie.My favorite part has to be when the gang leader's caddy gets blown up.The entire movie he has his flunkies doing all the dirty work but when his caddy gets blown up, watch out!!! Now he's mad & ready to fight.Angel Town is a movie I don't think you'll watch more than once unless you're seriously into Martial Arts or Martial Arts flicks but for 1 hour & 45 minutes, you will be entertained.It's worth watching at least once Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Pointless plot. Training sequence is worth fast-forwarding to. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Oh back in the day, the glorious day of the top shelf, unreachable 18 cert films. This was the home of many horror nasties and dubious looking action movies that were deemed to be much too violent for the lower shelves. So back in the early 90's at the height of JCVD's high kicking power he had one classic brawl flick come out after another. In the midst of this Belgian tidalwave of awesomeness came the smaller high kicking French power of Oliver Gruner. This one film was pretty much his biggest vehicle ever (until the possibility of 'Expendables 3') and it took huge advantage of JCVD's recent fight fests. The plot is quite simply about one French student who comes to the US to study. He lives with a mother and daughter within a rough gangland neighbourhood (LA I presume, why its called 'Angel Town') and inadvertently becomes the saviour of the block. Yep you guessed it, he's gonna kickbox some thug ass. The quality of this film is really gritty, but not gritty in a realistic way, more in a cheap low budget way. Here's me expecting something slick like the muscles from Brussels but instead we get a very dodgy audio track with tonnes of background dubbing and old fashioned fight effects, Gruner almost seems to be miming or badly dubbed himself and some very weak fight coordination/choreography. The whole film feels so damn cheesy its unreal, yes I realise this is an old film but its nowhere near the standard of the old JCVD stuff. All the fights were very disappointing as everything looked really fake, you could see the kicks and punches deliberately missing the intended targets. On top of that the hit effects were like something out of an old western for pete's sake!. The only decent sequence in the whole film was the short training montage in the middle where Gruner gets all sweaty and serious. This montage shows us some great moves that look real damaging plus Gruner looks good too, unlike the rest of the film where he looks like a bit of a nerd. It was produced by the folks who gave us the awesome 'A.W.O.L.' ('Lionheart') with some Belgian fella, you can see the similarities here. Unfortunately its nowhere near as good in any aspect and shows Gruner for what he has always been...the poor mans JCVD, sorry Oliver. Always loved how some of the bad guys have guns (look like uzi's), yet when they are watching their fellow gang members getting beaten up they don't actually use them! eh?. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Good cheesy 90s fun! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member The best gang movie ever!!!!! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Cheesy 90s Action movie, love it! Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A French kickboxer (Olivier Gruner) protects a widow (Theresa Saldana) and her son (Frank Aragon) from gangs while attending college in Los Angeles.
      Director
      Eric Karson
      Producer
      Anders P. Jensen, Sundip R. Shah, Sunil R. Shah
      Screenwriter
      Stefani Warren
      Production Co
      Ellendale Place
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Action
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Dec 20, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 41m
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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