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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-06-02 (Sunday)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 12:54:26 -0700
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On 6/3/24 11:39 AM, BTR1701 wrote:

> In article <v3kn7m$3uc18$1@dont-email.me>,
>   "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> Ruthless (Hulu) - (Not in 4k, though it still looked great.) This 2023
>> flick was what I wanted/needed to wrap up the night - this was a
>> low-budget, somewhat leisurely-paced and low-key "revenge flick".
>>      (How do I know this flick is "low-budget"? - Because Texas Battle
>> shows up in this, and Battle was in at least half of the low-budget
>> latter-day Bruce Willis flicks too!)
>>      Dermot Mulroney stars as a high school wrestling coach (the dude is
>> virtually magic, though, as his "wrestling" skills seem to give him the
>> same abilities as an ex-special forces soldier, which he uses often!!).
>>      Anyway, in the film's beginning, his daughter is murdered.
>>      Four years later, he's still coaching high school wrestling, and is
>> now being hassled by a plucky (but kind of obnoxious) female student
>> (Melissa Diaz) who is bad at wrestling but wants to get better. Soon
>> enough, her mom's boyfriend pops her one in the face, and Mulroney's
>> character doesn't take kindly to it, and breaks the boyfriend's arm in
>> retaliation.
>>      The mom's boyfriend, being a total scumbag, retaliates by selling
>> the girl to human traffickers.
>>      Once Mulroney figures out she's missing, he springs into action to
>> get her back, cops (Niko Foster), be damned!
>>      This, of course, is all ridiculous (e.g. somehow, during her
>> kidnapping ordeal, the girl is never raped, which is pretty much not how
>> human traffickers work!), but I enjoyed the nonsense, with Mulroney
>> taking righteous revenge on a whole bunch of scumbags in this flick.
> 
> So this guys goes all Liam Neeson when one of his students is kidnapped
> but he didn't when his own daughter was murdered?

His daughter's murderer was convicted, and got "life". So the justice 
system "worked" in the first case.

Also, <s>Liam</s> Dermot Mulroney makes sure the murderer gets his in 
prison before the end of the film anyway.