Vengeance: A Love Story

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Vengeance: A Love Story

Released Sep 15, 2017

1h 39m

Mystery & Thriller

Action

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Single mother Teena is brutally assaulted by a local gang in front of her 12-year-old daughter Bethie. Despite Bethie being able to identify the attackers, the defense hires a local hot-shot defense attorney who manipulates the law to their advantage. When the criminals are set free, Gulf War veteran and detective John Dromoor is dismayed by the lack of justice and plots revenge against the men on Teena's behalf.

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Michael Rechtshaffen

Los Angeles Times

Any hope of prestige is dashed by the heavy-handed, clich-ridden direction of former stuntman Johnny Martin and his star's detached portrayal of a guy whose mind is permanently elsewhere.

Sep 15, 2017

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Al Hoff

Pittsburgh City Paper

Vengeance doesn't deliver even the fun of a nutty Cage performance, so viewers are stuck with a predictable plot, terrible dialogue and flat acting.

Dec 18, 2017

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

By now, Nicolas Cage can practically sleepwalk through these types of generic vigilante roles.

Sep 16, 2017

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

If one is only interested in watching poorly coiffed, dentally challenged fiends receive their just deserts, there are worse options out there, with most of them also starring Nicolas Cage.

Rated: C

Sep 14, 2017

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M T

This falls under Cage needed a paycheck category. Because he did Raising Arizona he gets a pass and always will for paycheck movies.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

05/21/25

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Charles P

This is like a way to see all the possible mistakes a revenge flick can make, from ludicrously bad acting to a plot that's had less development than a well made cocktail. Technical things like camera work are all over the place, the direction makes ya wonder if the former stuntman-turned-director took too many knocks to the head already, and even Cage looks like he's been slipped about four Xanax when croaking the cartoonishly over-the-top bad guys. One-point-five only because somewhere in this garbage heap you can ALMOST make out the original novel - about as closely as you can see images in ink blots.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

05/17/25

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Jeremy A

Worst revenge movie ever. You learn to hate them for an hour plus and then... boooo 1.5*

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/07/25

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Gianvito A

It was a good movie, the revenge scenes were amazing

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

10/08/24

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Demonic S

My lord this is a terrible movie. Completely lacks vision or direction. Drags like crazy and goes nowhere. Even Nic Cage and Don Johnson can't save this flaming garbage dump.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/12/24

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Mario V

Good story, good acting, liked it alot

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

05/23/24

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Johnny Martin

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Nicolas Cage

John Dromoor

Talitha Eliana Bateman

Bethie Maguire

Emily Sandifer

Ursula

Joshua Mikel

Marvin Fick

Anna Hutchison

Teena

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Synopsis

Single mother Teena is brutally assaulted by a local gang in front of her 12-year-old daughter Bethie. Despite Bethie being able to identify the attackers, the defense hires a local hot-shot defense attorney who manipulates the law to their advantage. When the criminals are set free, Gulf War veteran and detective John Dromoor is dismayed by the lack of justice and plots revenge against the men on Teena's behalf.

Director: Johnny Martin
Producer: Nicolas Cage, Michael Mendelsohn
Screenwriter: John Mankiewicz
Distributor: FilmRise
Production Co: Saturn Films, Patriot Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 15, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 15, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.5K
Runtime: 1h 39m

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