Wonderful character development!

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

People are voting emotionally.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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

In my book a 1 star is for the worst of the worst - like "The Room". This isn't quite that bad. But it's pretty bad.The thing is, it could have been good. If it had made up its mind to either be a comedy or a drama. But trying to be both it fails miserably. There's no laugh...at all. Any attempt at comedy ranges from flat to annoying. If that isn't bad enough, they attempt to recycle the dumb jokes that didn't work the first time. There's an on going schtick about Frankie's cologne, Brut. Like anyone besides Joe Namath ever really wore that stuff. The joke never works. Not the first time. Not the third time.Frankie has to get rid of a body. We don't know if the body is dead or just unconscious. Until the body farts...three separate times. "Frankie, did you say something?" Yeah, hilarious.The saddest part of all this is that the director, Martyn Burke, wrote Top Secret, one of the funniest movies of all time. How he could miss so badly with this movie I'll never understand.Now, if this had been written as a drama, with action scenes, a little love story, not too over the top, it might have worked. It could have been good. As long as Madeleine Stowe's character was maybe only slightly annoying instead of completely over the top. Why Frankie hasn't shot her yet I have no idea.The writing is atrocious. Nothing makes any sense. Angelo thinks something might happen to him, but Frankie leaves him unprotected in the restaurant to go deal with a parking ticket. Jennifer lives in this enormous mansion that has no security system whatsoever. Bad guys and ex-husbands come and go at all hours of the night. She's "terrified" but goes out at night to the guest house to have a conversation about nothing.It's not like Stallone and Stowe have no chemistry together, but it isn't allowed to develop because her character is so annoying. I'm 48 minutes into it hoping against hope that it will get better.

I sure hope this is director Marty Burke's last feature, because unless he had a gun to his head and was forced to follow an erratic script, he's not doing a very good job.The movie is a mishmash of incoherent, illogical, unfounded scenes that brings it no flow and no credibility whatsoever (not even as a comedy). Stallone is actually pretty good and Stowe tries although she stumbles severely.I can see some good intentions of making this a romantic comedy, but it just fails utterly. The comedy isn't very funny and the romance isn't really coming across.Poor Sylvester who just winds up with directors who make crap of his every non-action-movie-attempt. Unfortunately Sly, you and the soundtrack are the best things about this movie! Rest in peace Anthony!

i don't see anything good in this movie. Frankly, it was VERY boring. the only good thing about the movie is that it tried something different with the lead, Stallone. But he too is helpless as the script does not support a good performance. The film is all about a gangsters daughter taking revenge of her fathers death along with his gunman, Stallone. It tries to insert comic stuff in a very serious plot. And worse, comedy by Stallone!!! Agreed that he's not as bad an actor as he is often criticized and i did like the movie Oscar which was comedy stuff. but that kinda comedy is different. Avenging Angelo needed someone like Eddie Murphy or even Bruce willis could do it... i guess. but no Stallone. He's tough as rock in his looks and he can create comedy only through situations, not by actions. Anyways, I would recommend this movie to all, so that u would finally say "damn... he was right about it." ;)