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Title: Sudden Death (1985)
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Denise Coward | ... |
Valarie Wells
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Detective Marty Lowery
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Valarie is a happy, successful career woman, engaged to a charming and handsome man. She drives a great car and lives in a beautiful apartment. Then one night she hails the wrong taxi. She is brutally raped by the two car thieves who were taking a joyride. They leave her on the sidewalk to die after they're done with her. When she recovers, her fiancée abandons her, and with the police unable to help much in tracking down her attackers, Valarie buys a gun and takes to the gritty streets after dark, luring and killing street thugs who accosted her while searching for the two thugs to get her revenge. She becomes known in the press as the 'Dum-Dum Killer' because of the hollow-point bullets she pattens out and uses. At the same time, she begins dating a sympathetic police detective, named Marty, who takes an interest in her rape case, while tracking down the 'Dum-Dum Killer', and when he begins to suspect her, he is torn between upholding the law and protecting his newest love interest. Written by Anonymous
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Don't Mess With This Dirty Harriet! See more »Parents Guide:
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13 September 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Detective Marty Lowery: I didn't know those animals cut your shoulders too.
Valarie Wells: It wasn't "those" animals who cut my shoulders.
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[Detective Lowery has just found the dum-dum bullets in Valarie's desk drawyer when she walks in and he notices the fresh slash wounds on both of her upper arms]Detective Marty Lowery: I didn't know those animals cut your shoulders too.
Valarie Wells: It wasn't "those" animals who cut my shoulders.
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The descriptions of writer / director Sig Shore's harsh, exploitative revenge outing "Sudden Death" being the female version of "Death Wish" and especially "Death Wish 2" is pretty accurate, but in the way it doesn't make it any better. I was somewhat disappointed in this one. I didn't find it to be all that powerful and edgy in conveying the character's torment and the attack scenes less effective because of the protagonist's careless actions of the situations she puts herself into and its choice of music throughout was off putting. Other than the first demoralizing opening attack on the protagonist that transforms her, the rest (involving our victim searching for payback on her attackers, but stumbling across other thugs) felt silly and made the sequences rather cheesy in the execution. Especially the use of slow-motion, but definitely the tacky soundtrack choices. The exercise at times feels unwieldy, but what is has going for it is the use of actual New York locations giving the dreary atmosphere some dirt and grit. It's a grungy look that works. However its grim nature seems to lose out when its came down to the final chase sequence that falls into a generic climatic action cliff-hanger. The performances are one-note. Denise Coward holds her own, but I didn't find her character to be all that well written and there was real disconnect there. The predictable plot is very run-of- the-mill and the unconvincing cop (A brooding Frank Runyeon)/ victim relationship felt like nothing more than filler to the overall picture. It's somewhat unfocused, but it didn't pretend to be anything else then what it set out to be and nor did it shy away from its ugly side.