ETERNAL REVENGE

US/Canada, 1998, 95 minutes, Colour.
Alexandra Paul, Anthony Michael Hall, Michelle Johnson.
Directed by Mark C. Grenier.

Eternal Revenge is a competently made vengeance and retaliation thriller. Made in Canada, it features Alexandra Paul as a strong policewoman, investigating some killings. It turns out that she knows the aggressor, knows the victims. The film opens with four young men taunting a young woman - who, after eighteen months in hospital, vows revenge and finally kills off her assailants.

To this extent, the film is a focus on police work and investigation, the working out of the anger of the young woman and her vengeance on those who hurt her.

1. Interesting, routine, police investigation, murder thriller?

2. The Canadian settings? Musical score? The buildings, the roofs, the locations for the killings? The background of the initial assault - and its being seen in negative throughout the film?

3. The title, vengeance, retaliation, vigilante killings?

4. The assault, the effect on the young woman, the men saying that they did not want to hurt her, their brutality, the alcohol, placing her on the height, throwing her bag and her fall? Their not coming forward? Brian and his witnessing it but not helping? Her long time in hospital? Final revenge?

5. The young men, their success in the world, clubs, business? Their callow attitudes and deceit? Their fears, their deaths?

6. Laura, her skill at police work, the initial sequence disarming the woman with the gun, pretending to want to shoot the victim, his callousness? Her trying to use the same technique on Vicki at the end?

7. Her character, lonely, her partner and his paternal concern, trying to match her up? Jimmy and his work helping her, recognising the Emerson quotation? Her complete dedication to her work, the dangers, investigating Vicky, confronting her? With Brian, the broken relationship, her antagonism towards him? The gun, the shootings, Brian saving her life?

8. Vicky, meek and mild, the brutality of the assault, her fall? Her story? Seeing her in her blonde disguise, luring the victims, sending them to their deaths? Her motivation, the phone calls to Laura, their meeting, handcuffing her? The meeting on the roof, with Brian, her being persuaded by Laura's tactics? Shooting and killing Brian? The film explaining sufficiently her motivation, her pain, her revenge?
9. Laura's partner, helping her with the work, his concern about her life, his own alcoholism and recovery? Jimmy and his assistance?

10. The background of the high school reunion, getting the lists of the members going, going to the school for the names in the classes? The assistance of the people at the reunion and at the school?

11. A routine and enjoyable video or television movie?