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Ed Brubaker (screenplay)
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7 July 2009 (USA) more
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A Conversation with Zoe Bell
 (From Fangoria. 26 October 2009, 2:11 AM, PDT)

‘The Bannen Way’ Set Visit: Ironside, Jaguars and REDs
 (From Tubefilter News. 9 October 2009, 11:27 AM, PDT)

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Cast

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Zoe Bell ... Eve

Jake Abel ... Cameron Downes

Vail Bloom ... Regina Downes

Justin Huen ... Franklin

Doug Jones ... Dr. Rankin

Lucy Lawless ... Vera

Brian Poth ... Graham

Ted Raimi ... Jed Norton

Ingrid Rogers ... Agent Danielle Taylor
John Serge ... Arthur Max

Pat Asanti ... Mr. Lyman

Kaela Crawford ... Marie Anderton

Robert Lewis Stephenson ... Keller

Paige Orr ... Rich Woman on Phone
Jimmy Lew ... Tommy
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Ed Brubaker's Angel of Death (USA) (complete title)
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Rated R for disturbing violent content, aberrant sexuality, nudity and language.
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a neo-noir/action flick treat for fans of Brubaker and Bell, 18 August 2009
8/10
Author: MisterWhiplash from United States

Ed Brubaker is a name to know in comics, but it should also be known in movies. Hopefully this will be a good calling card for him to get more work, or for more of his comics to reach the screen. While he's usually known for his spin on Captain America, he also has a series of hard-hitting hard-boiled comics called 'Criminal' (at the moment, I think, there's three volumes in all). Angel of Death follows along on the heels of those latter comics, and what he delivers here with this script is like an updating of a pulpy story that might have been found back in the 1950s put to film - only, of course, far less violent and expletive or on occasion trippy. It's like a Sin City yarn if it took itself not quite as much as a parody. And it works, mostly.

And another good thing about it, with its story about a hit-woman (Zoe Bell) who after getting a knife stabbed in her head and surviving- and becoming a loose cannon and seeing visions of a young girl she accidentally killed "telling her" to hit the entire mob organization around her- is that it leads on tough-movie dialog, kick-ass fight scenes and a really superb leading lady. Previously one could see Bell as a stunt-woman in Kill Bill or as herself, sorta, in Death Proof. But here she proves she can hold her own in dramatic scenes (maybe not quite her Uma Thurman counterpart but close enough) and seeing her fight is really extraordinary.

In fact, if you're just looking for a better-than-average direct-to-DVD action flick that chalks up a load of mob-movie/detective clichés, and don't know or care about Brubaker's name on the DVD, it's still worth watching. The fights are gritty and realistic, and the direction compliments these moments of torrid psycho-drama with Bell's knack for knocking someone's head in or any other kind of clever way of killing at a moment's notice. The film sometimes goes into a comic-book-panel kind of mis-en-scene, like if Zoe Bell's character is in a room walking around we'll see three different 'panels' of this. It's creative, if a little overused (and not so original if one's seen Ang Lee's Hulk). And, as a more obvious complaint, with the exception of Doug Jones and Lucy Lawless most of the cast is just 'meh', not terrible but nothing special.

But pick it up if you're roving around your video rental or if netflix gives the recommendation. You'll be surprised how much 78 minutes can go in delivering a hard-knock story of hard kills and harder consequences.

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