My review was written in May 1987 after a Cannes Film Festival Market screening.
"Angel of Vengeance" doesn't make much of its premise: gung ho survivalists killing folks in a remote mountain spot as practice for the war they believe is imminent. Pic is relentlessly dull.
Jannina Poynter toplines as a young woman researching a book about her late father, a military man, who has several run-ins with the survivalists led byu single-minded David O'Hara. About to be summarily executed as were the rest of the group's unlucky prisoners (including members of a local biker gang, called Thrill Killers), she talks O'Hara into letting her act as hitman prey for the troops, and then proceeds to skillfully kill off all of them.
Until Poynter goes on the rampage in the final reel, the picture unfolds listlessly with aloof camerawork, weak acting and mundane action scenes. A parallel subplot of a couple of thrill-seeking guys also on the rampage makes for filler leading to a predictable final twist.
"Angel of Vengeance" doesn't make much of its premise: gung ho survivalists killing folks in a remote mountain spot as practice for the war they believe is imminent. Pic is relentlessly dull.
Jannina Poynter toplines as a young woman researching a book about her late father, a military man, who has several run-ins with the survivalists led byu single-minded David O'Hara. About to be summarily executed as were the rest of the group's unlucky prisoners (including members of a local biker gang, called Thrill Killers), she talks O'Hara into letting her act as hitman prey for the troops, and then proceeds to skillfully kill off all of them.
Until Poynter goes on the rampage in the final reel, the picture unfolds listlessly with aloof camerawork, weak acting and mundane action scenes. A parallel subplot of a couple of thrill-seeking guys also on the rampage makes for filler leading to a predictable final twist.