The Ministers (2009)A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers. Director:Franc. ReyesWriter:Franc. Reyes |
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The Ministers (2009)A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers. Director:Franc. ReyesWriter:Franc. Reyes |
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| John Leguizamo | ... |
Dante /
Perfecto
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| Harvey Keitel | ... |
Joseph Bruno
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| Florencia Lozano | ... |
Celeste Santana
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| Diane Venora | ... |
Gina Santana
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| Wanda De Jesus | ... |
Captain Diaz
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| Manny Perez | ... |
Detective Manso
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Saul Stein | ... |
Detective Demarco
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| Benny Nieves | ... |
Alberto Santana
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| Luis Antonio Ramos | ... |
Carlos Rojas
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| Raquel Castro | ... |
Nereida
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| Tammy Trull | ... |
Liz
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Raquel Jordan | ... |
Alma
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| Alex Luria | ... |
Dante /
Perfecto 23 years old
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Gabriella Fanuele | ... |
Celeste 18 years old
(as Gabriella Loren)
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| Josh Segarra | ... |
Luis
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In New York, Detective Alberto Santana comes with his partner Joseph Bruno to meet his wife Gina and his daughter Celeste to celebrate her eighteenth birthday. Out of the blue, Alberto is shot in his head on the sidewalk by a man wearing a hood that delivers a religious message from the Lord. Many years later, Celeste is a detective of the New York Police Department and partner of Joe Bruno. When the crooks Alden and Jeff Kane, who had torched their buildings to receive the insurance, are released from prison, they are executed by two criminals in the same modus operandi of detective Santana, and the police department concludes that they are the same killers. Lieutenant Diaz assigns Detective Manso and Detective Demarco from narcotics to investigate the case, for the deception of Celeste. Then the drug dealer Chino and his gang are executed in Manhattan's Lower East Side by the killers Dante and his deformed and deranged twin brother Perfecto, and Lieutenant Diaz teams up Joe and ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In the flatfooted psycho-religio thriller "The Ministers," John Leguizamo plays Scripture-spouting twin brothers - one with a scarred face for purposes of differentiation - who've made it their life's mission to gun down those responsible for the deaths of their parents and brother, leaving religious tracts with the bodies as calling cards. Florencia Lozano plays a beautiful cop from the Bronx whose father, also a cop, was dispatched by the hood-and-mask-wearing boys years earlier for reasons that aren't entirely revealed till the end.
This Avenging Angel scenario has pretty much been done to death at this point, and "The Ministers" brings nothing new or interesting to the genre. Franc. Reyes is responsible not only for the contrived, melodramatic screenplay and lackluster, pedestrian direction, but also for eliciting some of the worst performances of their careers out of Leguizamo and that crusty, battle-scarred stalwart, Harvey Keitel, as a veteran cop with a secret. After all, with material this lame, it's rather hard to lay too much of the blame at the feet of the actors.