ANGEL OF RECKONING is one of those ultra-cheap indie thrillers, this time shot on the streets of Pennysylvania. It's about a maladjusted young woman, grieving for the sudden loss of a family member, who decides to go gunning for revenge against those she holds responsible. The rest of the cast is populated by the usual scummy characters including pornographers and drug dealers and various criminal types. There are more resources here than in some indie films, with plenty of scene changes for example, and some titillation, but the usual problems involving bad acting and a general lack of suspense and cohesion.

Rachel returns from Iraqistan? and hits on all stereotypes being PTSD, lesbian, and film vigilante avenging the suicide of her niece whose sex tape went on the Internet (This tape is just for us.) After seeing herself, she realized she couldn't act and spared us having to watch her on screen. Her nice coke head boyfriend needed the money and gave the tape to his dealer, who sold it to Billy (Jawn Williams). The only thing Rachel can do is to confront the boyfriend...no wait....she follows him and then the dealer to a bar and works as a stripper/waitress/dancer who does porno films. She buys a gun and we don't want to ruin this often told tale.

Writer/director Len Kabasinski starred his beautiful actress wife in this film, because she can't get work anywhere else. No seriously, she has only worked for him and Sheri Moon Zombie she ain't. He top billed porn star Jasmin St. Claire, soft core star Deborah Dutch (Deborah Dare),himself and not his wife with a story line about the seedy underground world, but never delivers on the goods. Jasmin stays clothed from neck to toe, making a cameo appearance as a gun dealer. Jessica does show a lot of skin, as does the other actresses. It is a tease. The acting wasn't good and the script has been done and by real actors. The opening volleyball scene was a laugh. Why even bother? His wife plays a boring game of volleyball attempted to be made look exciting with a metal music soundtrack and a jerk camera. Seriously Len? That is the best you got? Jessica Kabasinski in a micro string bikini is the only reason to watch the film. At no time does she have angel wings, although a dance number with the wings would have worked great.

1 F-word. No sex or nudity.

I have no real issue with low budget. In fact, given a great script and one room as a set with good direction and editing you can make a good film for under a thousand. Sadly, this film had none of those things and I was being generous giving it a rating of 2. Now, I rarely blame the actors as a bad director can easily manage to make the greats come across as talentless. The editing deserves special mention as they hadn't even bothered to cut sound correctly with some dialogue spoken at a distance from the microphone being used in closeup. Sadly, you really need to give this one a miss. Bad editing, a terrible script and brutal direction leaves nothing worthwhile in its wake.