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A NYPD detective attempts to avenge her father's death but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his murderers.A NYPD detective attempts to avenge her father's death but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his murderers.A NYPD detective attempts to avenge her father's death but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his murderers.
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Gabriella Fanuele
- Celeste 18 years old
- (as Gabriella Loren)
- Director
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- ConnectionsReferences Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
- SoundtracksFabulous
Written by George Acogny, Kamil Rustam, Raven Williams
Performed by Raven Williams (as Raven "Majia" Williams)
Featured review
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.
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.
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- Also known as
- Juramento de venganza
- Filming locations
- Governors Island, New York Harbor, New York City, New York, USA(Police station interior - Builidng 110. Other exteriors.)
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Box office
- Budget
- $7,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $4,447
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,844
- Oct 18, 2009
- Gross worldwide
- $4,447
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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