The Retaliators
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Action, Horror
- Stars: Michael Lombardi, Marc Menchaca, Joseph Gatt, Katie Kelly, Abbey Hafer, Jacoby Shaddix, Brian O'Halloran, Shannan Wilson, Zoltan Bathory, Ivan L. Moody, Chris Kael, Corrie Graham, Gigi Gustin, Cree Kelly, Spencer Charnas, Craig Mabbitt, Robert Knepper, Robert John Burke, Tommy Lee, Amanda Lyberg, Doc Coyle, Rachel Hilbert, Cory Marks, Dan Murphy, Miles Franco
- Director: Samuel Gonzalez Jr., Bridget Smith
Comments
- okpilak - 7 January 2024
Two movies in one.
Underlying the movie is a truce in a war between a biker gang and the goons running the drugs, and there is a free lancer who upsets the truce, keeps both the money and the meth, and war breaks out. The pastor is Bishop who seems to head a small rural congregation. He has two daughters and one day as they are about to buy their cut Christmas tree, another man grabs it and then threatens the pastor, and he backs down. He uses what happened to teach his members the message that while the person may escape consequences in the real word, there are always consequences in the Heavenly one. After the service, he lets his daughter have the car, as long as she fills it up with gas. As she is filling it, she notices noise from the trunk of the car next to the pumps, and when the man sees she heard something, he comes over. As this is supposed to be in New Jersey, this could not happen, as one cannot pump your own gas. Anyway, she flees, and he chases her, catches up and kills her. And during the chase, instead of calling 911, she calls her dad. The pastor is very grief stricken and is in a rage. But will he take revenge, or will he take to the message he gave his flock? That is movie #1. The second movie is full of blood and gore and completely different, but not perhaps as one might think, and relates to an opening scene which until now, seems disconnected from the entire movie. - leesimon-26357 - 4 September 2023
Quite bad in almost every way.
Sexy teenage-looking pastor and single-dad of 2 girls goes from upstanding citizen to violent a-hole. I'm not sure why we should cheer. I was too distracted by the AWFUL acting and even worse writing.
That said, it was goofy fun. The violence was very funny, though the effects were way too bad for all the time spent zooming in for closer shots. Truly though, nothing can compare to how terrible the acting and writing was. I'm not a Papa Roach fan, so I can't tell if all the band members were in it, or just a couple. The soundtrack was mostly their kind of alternative teenager rock. If someone told me a bunch of rockers wrote and directed this, I would not be surprised. It seems to have been shot using proper movie-making materials, so it gets more than one star.
I truly hated the experience of watching this, and I'll never watch it again, but I am a Mark Menchaca completist, so I'm glad I saw it once. Three stars.
