Elizabeth Giordano in Deadly Reckoning (2001)

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Deadly Reckoning (2001) appears to be a direct-to-bargain video, and IMDb is totally mute on it. It was directed by Art Camacho, and stars Frank Zagarino as a retired CIA agent living under a new identity. His old partner and ex lover, Elizabeth Giordano, is the love interest, and Robert Vaughn plays the CIA section head who is crooked and out to get Zagarino. Seems Zagarino kept a fortune in bearer bonds, and a 3 1/2 inch floppy listing all of the spooks in the world as insurance, and Vaughn wants them for profit. He breaks a bunch of bad guys out of an East German prison, and sends them after Zagarino and his daughter.

Zagarino's wife was killed by a car bomb meant for him shortly after his daughter was born. From here, it is a formula action film full of gunfights, explosions, fistfights, a huge body count, etc.

This is really no worse than most B action thrillers, although the John Woo gun-to-the-head trick was way overused, and they had a gun to the head of the young daughter every time they couldn't figure out what to do next. Those who like mindless action will find it here. I will give it a C-.

Nudity Report: There is one dark sex scene between Zagarino and Giordano, where we see one of her breasts. The scene looked edited to reduce nudity to me.


Written by: Tuna …courtesy of Scoopy.net