Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

omendata Havent heard music as wonderful as this in a film for a long, long time. Stallone as always makes a great performance as does Madeleine Stowe. Some great comedy lines, average script and everything very reminiscent of those old 80's romance films like Romancing The Stone - Such a treat to watch something that is not full of gratuitous nudity, overt sex and foul language.Is it just me or are you sick of hearing the "F" word every five minutes in a film - its so refreshing.I personally go to the cinema to be taken away to a different world away from the foul language and reality of modern life and this one will give you some real joy and peace with its superb music and gentle humour.Top notch film from Stallone p Dont listen to the critics - this one is a stormer. Anothony Quinns last film as well as he goes to meet the other giants of cinema like Charlton Heston, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner et al - R.I.P.

juneebuggy Avenging Angelo went straight to DVD in the US which sadly seems about right. This has the feel of a movie of the week with a predictable plot, ridiculous dialogue and just dumb situations. Its also full of mistakes, or liberties taken where we are just meant to go with it in a slap-sticky comedy sort of way which includes fart jokes from dead bodies.That being said, if you can bear with it this is the last film from the great Anthony Quinn. He plays aging Mafia Godfather Angelo, trying to make amends with the daughter he gave up as a baby to protect. Sylvester Stallone is Frankie, his loyal bodyguard who has been watching and keeping Jennifer safe throughout her life, he is (of course) also in love with her. When Angelo is murdered Frankie tells his daughter the truth, she in turn decides to avenge her father's death with a very limited understanding of "whacking" protocol.I will say that Stallone does a good job with the material given. He doesn't have much to work with here and you have to give him credit for continually trying to break free of the action genre, even if it just doesn't work for him.I'm also a fan of Madeline Stowe and while definitely beautiful, her character is so annoying here that she's just painful to watch. The soundtrack is also terrible and there are weird fantasy romantic montages sequences that look like romance novel covers. Whatever they were meant to be they didn't work.All in this was a struggle to get through only endurable thanks to Stallone. 4/19/16

asiegel-8 I really enjoyed this movie. Women will love this movie, most men will hate it. I feel this movie was poorly advertised, I never heard of it until recently when it was on TV. It was likely not advertised properly. If you like movies like; Only You, Legally Blonde, and so on that are light, usually predictable, with some laugh out loud moments you will enjoy this. Nice to see Stallone not be this Hollywood oiled up creation to be a tough guy, let's be real he is like 5'8". This is a movie you sit back with a glass of wine and enjoy.Madeline Stowe is a well off unhappy housewife, forced to let her 8 year old son go to boarding school, she gets wrapped up in romance novel book clubs and develops a crush on the writer (a very good looking Italian) while her husband is sleeping with her best friend. She learns, from Stallone, he has been watching her to protect her and in love with her since she was a girl. He lets her know of her real identity, her parents were paid to adopt her, her adoptive father is gay, her biological father was a mob boss who was murdered and she decides to get revenge and take control of her life to find peace and happiness. I really enjoyed this flick, my husband went into another room to watch Sports Center.

Rodrigo Amaro Nothing less than pathetic, the worst excuse for a movie "Avenging Angelo" has Sylvester Stallone playing Frankie, the bodyguard of a mobster (Anthony Quinn in his final role) who, after the old man's murder needs to protect his daughter (Madeleine Stowe) from eventual enemies. Detail: she doesn't know that her father was a criminal. If this was a drama or a thriller something decent would come out of this. So, this is a comedy and the way the story is developed is just a set of dumb moments after another, schmucks dealing with schmucks and the neurotic woman going nuts after finding the truth about her family.Almost everything is weak here. Almost. There's four or five moments that are a little funny, takes some good laughs out of us but that's it, no more. For the most part of this, I was anxious for the ending regretting for not walking out of it when I had the chance. It is such a stupid movie that is beyond anything I've seen in the past few months. Silly acting, silly plot and silly humor (best thing of this is when Stallone takes out the truth from Stowe's husband about his infidelities). Wanna see of what a bad movie is like? Watch this! If you don't feel bad at all and manage to sit through the whole thing and enjoy it, well, my bad, sorry. But then go to a doctor and do some head check to see how sane you are. 2/10