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The Gratuitous B-Movie Column Issue #494: I Am Vengeance

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to the internets movie review column that has never had to singlehandedly take down a small town drug running operation using my black ops skills because, well, I don't have any black ops skills, The Gratuitous B-Movie Column, and I am your host Bryan Kristopowitz. In this issue, issue number four hundred and ninety-four, I take a look at the badass low budget British action flick I Am Vengeance, which hit movie screens in North America in late 2018.

I Am Vengeance

I Am Vengeance, also known as just Vengeance, written and directed by Ross Boyask, stars the former Wade Barrett/Bad News Barrett/King Barrett Stu Bennett as John Gold, a badass British Special Forces operator who left the service to become a kind of vigilante-for-hire. After rescuing a kidnapped girl, Gold heads to a little town called Devotion to find out what happened to his old friend/fellow operator Dan Mason (Kevin Leslie). Dan was found dead under mysterious circumstances (someone stabbed him in the back of the neck after beating him severely) along with his Mom and Dad (I don't know who played them). Who the hell would kill Dan and his parents?

As soon as he arrives in Devotion, Gold is confronted by Hatcher (Gary Daniels) and his scary as hell friends. Who the hell is this Gold guy and why is he in town asking questions? Gold isn't intimidated by Hatcher or his people, but the Devotion townsfolk sure are, as no one wants to talk to him, at least openly. One woman does, eventually, talk with Gold, a waitress named Sandra (Anna Shaffer), and she leads Gold to her boyfriend Keith (Sebastian Knapp), a totally messed up guy that knows what the heck is going on in Devotion and who Hatcher is. Hatcher, along with his men, are ex-Special Forces operators who showed up in town to take over the local drug trade (Keith ran the local drug trade before Hatcher and his people took over). Why would Special Forces guys want to be drug dealers? Gold intends to find out.

Now, while all of that is going, Gold strikes up a relationship with Rose (Sapphire Elia), a local café owner and hot babe who just wants to get the hell out of town but can't because her entire life is tied up in the café. Rose also has a younger teen sister named Violet (Barbara Smith) she needs to look after as well. And while all of that is going on, Gold is being watched by the mysterious Frost (Mark Griffin), a sort of government agent that wants to bring Gold back into the official Special Forces fold.

So Gold hangs out in Devotion, living in an old sort of garage out in the woods and planning his next move. He's going to attack Hatcher and his team and take them down while smashing their drug running operation, but when? What sort of reaction will that generate?