a5c7b9f00b A gulf war veteran seeks vengeance against those who assaulted a single mother. Walking home with her 12-year-old daughter after midnight on the Fourth of July, Teena crosses paths with some local losers to be brutally gang raped with her daughter Bethie watching. Bethie is able to identify the rapists, but when the rapists hire a hot shot attorney who attacks Teena&#39;s character, Dromoor, a local police officer who was first on the scene when police were called, starts to take matters into his own hands. There is a new rash of screenwriters out there who have never read a book or seen a play. They no nothing about plot structure. They don&#39;t know that a story needs 3 acts. The don&#39;t know about character development or arc. They don&#39;t know what subtext is. They don&#39;t know the 7 basic plots. And they definitely have no idea what a 3rd act is. <br/><br/>Everything they know about writing a movie is from watching movies and they don&#39;t understand what they&#39;re watching. In this particular movie they thought all they needed something bad to happen so the good guy could start going after the bad guys and then you just stop and that&#39;s your end. Unbelievably shallow attempt at storytelling and the writer wants us to believe there is no such thingDNA evidence. If there was DNA evidence then this movie couldn&#39;t have been made. Well, DNA evidence exists and this movie shouldn&#39;t.<br/><br/>And what the hell ever happened to Nicholas Cage? He used pick interesting roles and create something interesting a memorable? Why did he decide to suck? The movie starts with a production Company named Patriot Pictures… As we follow the story line, we watch a blonde and aryan mother, god believers ( the Director several times shoot the crucifix in the wall of their house ), and is daughter are assaulted and the women raped. In Courthouse, the system fail to condemned the perpetrators, showing the weakness of the justice system. Enters John Dromoor ( Nicolas Cage ), veteran of Gulf War, widow, not alcoholic like some characters of this kind( god believers are not alcoholic ), full of botox and hair implants, to make vigilante-like revenge killing everyone. In one occasion, after a shooting incident, John say that the fact that he confronted the criminal in that particular place was &quot;God Providence&quot;. Catch the idea? Along the movie John show the purity and beauty of making your own justice, using fire guns to kill human beings because they commit a crime and don&#39;t regret…OK…but then we have to kill them all, right? Police who abuse power, politicians corrupt, etc. The divine right of using firearms to make justice, is the unquestionable point of this sad movie. Is Nicolas Cage the new Charlton Heston?
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