Messenger of Death

1988

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 3805 3.8K

based on novel or book revenge mormon newspaper reporter murder of family investigative reporter

Plot summary

A Denver reporter investigates the mass murder of a family of Mormons in rural Colorado.

Director

J. Lee Thompson Photo
J. Lee Thompson

Top cast

John Ireland Photo
John Ireland as Zenas Beecham
Marilyn Hassett Photo
Marilyn Hassett as Josephine Fabrizio
Charles Dierkop Photo
Charles Dierkop as Orville Beecham
Carey Loftin Photo
Carey Loftin as Truck Driver
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794.35 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
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1.48 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by elo-equipamentos 6 / 10

Avenging Angel!!

I'd watched this movie in october 1996 for first time on television, in that time l'd rated 5/10 but now on full length DVD with original audio it's seem much better, Cannon made a lot of movies during the 80' action movies and J. Lee Thompson was really good director of this kind of movies, Messenger of Death has Charles Bronson as newspaper's reporter an unusual role to the "Stone Face", the plot is totally improbable.However is around two Mormons families whom are in clash after women and children massacre, although Bronson suspicious that the real reason is a Water Company, apart the plot the amazing Colorado landscape is breathtaking and the music score is properly fine, as always Bronson never disappoints his fans.Thanks for reading.Resume:First watch: 1996 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6.5.
Reviewed by JoeytheBrit 3 / 10

Bad.

Boy, this is a mess. This is one of those films that, on paper, look like they have a lot going for them but, when they put it on the screen, nothing meshes. There's a decent cast – Bronson, van Devere, Benzali, Ireland, Corey – and an intriguing setting, but the plot is fatally anaemic and the direction, considering it comes from an old trooper like Thompson, is surprisingly shoddy. Much of the acting is second-rate at best, while characters perform abrupt about turns for no explicable reason. For instance, Orville Beecham (Charles Dierkop), a clean-living Mormon farmer, is crazy for revenge after mysterious intruders murder his wives and children and yet is full of forgiveness after the rest of his family is wiped out in a gunfight.The film opens well, with an atmospheric prologue in which two mysterious gunmen massacre the wives and children, although why the gunmen's identities are concealed is something of a mystery as they disappear for the next thirty minutes and are immediately confirmed as the killers when they re-appear. Anyway, from this neatly paced opener, the film goes rapidly downhill. Charles Bronson plays a Denver reporter who gets involved with the warring Mormon clans who go to war over the killings, and he's pretty bad here. He was 67 when the film was made, and he looks bloated and tired. On top of that, he's saddled with an awful script and a frankly ludicrous storyline – which is a crime really because the unusual subject matter here deserves much better writing than that offered by 73-year-old writer Paul Jarrico. Director J. Lee Thompson manages a couple of effective scenes, and there is a good sequence in which two water tankers attempt to crush Bronson's vehicle on a winding country road, but for the most part his direction is flat and uninspired and the story simply fails to engage.Bottom line: give this one a miss.
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