The Retaliators
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Action, Horror
- Stars: Michael Lombardi, Marc Menchaca, Joseph Gatt, Katie Kelly, Abbey Hafer, Jacoby Shaddix, Brian O'Halloran, Shannan Wilson, Zoltan Bathory, Ivan L. Moody, Chris Kael, Corrie Graham, Gigi Gustin, Cree Kelly, Spencer Charnas, Craig Mabbitt, Robert Knepper, Robert John Burke, Tommy Lee, Amanda Lyberg, Doc Coyle, Rachel Hilbert, Cory Marks, Dan Murphy, Miles Franco
- Director: Samuel Gonzalez Jr., Bridget Smith
Comments
- horrorbailey - 11 December 2023
A lot of promise will absolutely no promises kept
The most excited I had been for a movie in a long time and good god what a let down this utter crap was.
I was promised a new age rock soundtrack with lots of blood and gore with a solid revenge story
What we were given was this turd. Like two decent songs, a main character who didn't even get revenge for his daughter and kills that weren't even worth watching.
This movie had the most promise to be something special and ended up being another run of the mill "gorefest" with no gore, no character and no enjoyment.
The worst film I've put myself through watching for a long time.
If your gonna make a gory film with rock music please do it properly don't make this utter crap. - sean-miller47 - 8 July 2023
Fun at Times but Very Lame Overall
This is like some soft core porn producer decided to try and break into Hollywood with a warped "forgiveness is not the answer" message. This had a lot of potential, which reflecting on the whole movie is crazy to say because it also had SO much wrong with it. Right off, Bishop (the protagonist) is like the same age as his daughter... nbd moving on. A great opportunity for this movie to have dived deeper and explore fight/flight or why some people choose "the high road" is when Bishop first backs off from a potential fight. He later uses this story in his sermon and misrepresents what he did/said in order to preach that it's always better to take the high road. It seemed like the writers were insinuating that his morality was just a mask for fear and a reliance on God or someone else to sort out his mess, but this could easily be missed or maybe I misinterpreted, but I don't think he ever said merry Christmas to the tree stealer. But then later on, he grows a spine.... For the worse when he decides he's going to free a bunch of rapists, murderers, etc because... it's not man's place to enact justice? Something about this guys moral code is just fantasy and hinders the movie because this action/mistake is, for some ridiculous reason, the catalyst that makes him decide when all the criminals are free, that he is going to suddenly enact an awesome blood fest orgy in order to survive. The action sequences are great, just about everything else sucked. 5 finger death punch was completely unneeded, the writing stunk, music was weird, character development convoluted or non existent, and Michael Lombardi was better suited as the police detectives murdered wife than a vengeful pastor. He worked for the written character, but the character was written solely to convey that sometimes you can't help but do bad things - but in a way that made him insufferable. - jkanecoleman - 8 January 2023
Woof.
I love gore and movies about revenge. The Retaliators says that's what it brings, but in reality it's a very disjointed film that feels like a lot of cocaine was used in it's inception. I don't really know what to say other than this isn't even a 'so bad it's good' watch. It's got members of Five Finger Death Punch in some what major roles, which, if this was about them playing music, fine. It's not. They're members of a biker gang...ugh...add in The guy from Papa Roach as a serial killer, and Tommy Lee for no reasyat all and then jam a rejected Rob Zombie script up the ol' butt and this is what you get. Trust me, just pass on this one. - Sir_watch_alot - 29 October 2022
Anti-revenge movie
If this was the revenge movie it could have easily been, I would have given this a one an 8. But a simple, 'No, I can't torture or kill the murderer of my beloved 17 years old dauther, and instead, I'll realease a dozen or so of the worse people that ever lived from captivity', ruined the whole movie.
The blood and gore were awsome. Really. But during the whole bloody mayhem in the last part I kept thinking about the why a father would't revenge his daughters death. Must be some pathatic forgive and forget or turn the other cheek kind of thought behind that.
I gave it an extra point for the plot twist. That was a little surprise.
If you don't mind the whole unrealistic I can't kill no matter what, you'll probably have a better time than I did.
Enjoy. - techno_bananas - 3 October 2022
Fans of rock and horror this is for you!
Absolutely killer soundtrack, rock and roll all the way baby! And so so many famous and familiar faces of rock and metal you'll recognise, old and new! There's blood, gore, and action and brutality. Absolute old school shock and at times funny and outrageous, there's old school horror vibes, and did I mention it is absolutely BRUTAL?!!!! Can we get a second retaliators or a spin off perhaps? Or even A prequel? I thoroughly enjoyed this, both as a fan of the music and the genre, very different, yet familiar. This is definitely For fans of both rock and metal and horror this is a must see movie!
