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Avenger
“No peace without justice...”
6.1 / 10• 2006• 1h 32m•NR• English
TV MovieActionThriller
Storyline
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was beaten to pulp and drowned for no other crime then helping street boys from the other side by Zoran Zilic and his Serbian paramilitary 'order'. He offers Steven to 'finish the job' as such war criminals don't go to trial. But deputy CIA director Paul Devereaux cares only for a nuclear arms project he wants to use Zilic for. So CIA troubleshooter Frank McBride is ordered to protect him and handle Dexter.
Cast & Crew
Sam Elliott
Calvin Dexter
Lead
Timothy Hutton
Frank McBride
James Cromwell
Paul Devereaux
William Hope
Stephen Edmonds
David Hayman
Zoran Zilic
Jamie Bartlett
Van Rensburg
Lucy Russell
Curtis
Jacqueline Chan
Madame Huong (as Jacqui Chan)
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Robert Markowitz's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Avenger is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
