Yet another direct to video blunder from Doug Jackson, not to be confused with Peter Jackson. You can tell a stars career is over when they show up in one of these easy payday movies like Sean Young in "Aftermath" or Helen Slater in "Nowhere in Sight", Molly Ringwald in, oh wait her career was already over, bad example. You have to be like as old as my parents Doug, jeez come on already take a break, Social Security isn't broke yet! This film leaves me one question, were they handing out mass quantities of stupid pills back in the year 2000?!?!?! And I'm not just talking about the state of Florida here, since when does "basically a typical suspense film" translate into 9 out of 10 stars and how does this movie qualify for a "AMAZING writer" comment when this is the only thing he ever sold to Hollywood? Way to go Turdo and Mafony, you 2 probably should have stayed away from the butterfly ballots too! This movie is simply crap from people who regularly make crap and earns its spot on the KTRK ch. 13 Saturday night hall of shame midnight movie spot!
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Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo
(1986 TV Movie)
Below average TV docudrama gone bad!
19 February 2006
Giving this movie a 3 out of 10 is being very nice. This not so typical TV movie was originally done for CBS and is a cruel fate for an interesting and sad story of murder in the South. Its a shame for the family of the victims that this is the version that was presented for those unfamiliar with the story.
Both the director and writer were TV veterans that were in the twilight of their careers, and both coincidentally died 3 years after this movie was made. Its hard to say what's worst with this train-wreck, the direction or the writing. With its horrible editing, badly performed scenes and clunky dialog, it's a close race. The acting wasn't much better than the script, but you can't blame the actors given what they had to work with, in bad made for TV movies they usually go hand in hand. One possible exception was with one of the villains played by Brad Dourif, who gave one of his usual creepy and effective performances, too bad it was all at the end of the movie. I have to also mention and give an honorable mention to the annoying early 80s synthesized sound track, that added the perfect touch to this unwatchable masterpiece. It would have been a typical and average soundtrack if done in 1980, too bad it was done in the late 80s. Bad made for TV movies were a dime a dozen in the 70s and 80s and this one is no different. They filled in the slack time for the big 3 networks and where effective for the low money spent to get the low ratings they received. Unfortunately a replacement was found for them in the endless bad reality TV we now sit through. I guess pick your poison, I personally pick the endless investigative TV news shows of the 90s.
Both the director and writer were TV veterans that were in the twilight of their careers, and both coincidentally died 3 years after this movie was made. Its hard to say what's worst with this train-wreck, the direction or the writing. With its horrible editing, badly performed scenes and clunky dialog, it's a close race. The acting wasn't much better than the script, but you can't blame the actors given what they had to work with, in bad made for TV movies they usually go hand in hand. One possible exception was with one of the villains played by Brad Dourif, who gave one of his usual creepy and effective performances, too bad it was all at the end of the movie. I have to also mention and give an honorable mention to the annoying early 80s synthesized sound track, that added the perfect touch to this unwatchable masterpiece. It would have been a typical and average soundtrack if done in 1980, too bad it was done in the late 80s. Bad made for TV movies were a dime a dozen in the 70s and 80s and this one is no different. They filled in the slack time for the big 3 networks and where effective for the low money spent to get the low ratings they received. Unfortunately a replacement was found for them in the endless bad reality TV we now sit through. I guess pick your poison, I personally pick the endless investigative TV news shows of the 90s.
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