Wizard-8 If you have been reading my reviews, you will have seen that I have reviewed the original "Angel" movie and its first sequel "Avenging Angel". So what took me so long to get to "Angel III"? Well, I DID see this movie years ago... but on commercial television, and it seemed unfair to review an exploitation movie when it had been extensively edited. But today I found an uncut copy at a thrift store and watched it, so I'll review it now.First, the good stuff. The production values of this movie are not only good, they are the best of the three New World "Angel" movies. It looks like some serious money was spent at times. It's odd that this movie went straight to video when the cheaper-looking first two movies were theatrically released.When it comes to sleaze, the movie delivers more than the first two movies combined. There is a significant amount of nudity, and some of this sleaze is pretty funny to watch (like the porn film shoot.) The performances by the cast are pretty good, giving us likable good guys and hissable bad guys. (But it's clear that Adams and Roundtree only spent a few days being filmed for their surprisingly smaller-than-you'd-expect roles.) Now for the not-so-good stuff: I thought the confrontation scene of Angel with her mother made less than an impact that I think it would in real life. (Maybe the filmmakers were afraid of being too harsh.) The main ways the movie screws up is that the movie is both too long (100 minutes long!) and too slow. There's a lot here that could be eliminated, which would have given the movie an appropriately zippy pace. Also, there is the unexplained thing about Angel being a photographer in this movie - in the previous movie she was studying law... what happened? If you suffered through the disappointing first two "Angel" movies, this movie will give you some relief... though you'll still think it could be better. As for "Angel 4" (made by a different production company), I guess I will review it if I find a copy - I've gone through this series so far, so I might as well stay to the very end.

bipvg71 Region free,English:Dolby Digital 5.1 or AC-3. A former street prostitute named Angel/Molly Stewart (Mitzi Kapture) now a freelance photographer in New York runs across a woman at an art show that looks familiar. Going to L.A. she finds that this woman is her mother & she has a sister, Michelle (Tawny Fere). Their reunion is short-lived when her mother calls telling her that her sister is in danger & gets killed in an explosion. Molly going undercover becomes Angel in an effort to find her missing sister. She discovers a high-powered Madam Nadine (Maud Adams) running a high-class out call prostitution ring & whore house with Pimp Shahid (Emile Beaucard), controlling them with heroin addiction. Finding her sister in their hands & due to be sold overseas, she races desperately to unravel the intricate workings of the white slavery network teaming with police Lt. Doniger (Richard Roundtree).Also stars: Mark Blankfield – Spanky, Kin Shriner – Neal,S.A. Griffin – Roger, Anna Navarro – Gloria, Susan Moore – Pam, Floyd Levine – Lt. Mellin, Barbara Treutelaar – Shirley, Cynthia Hoppenfeld – Marie, Bob DeSimone – Porn Director, Julie K. Smith – Darlene. 99 minutes, Originally released 1988.

Derek Williams This third installment in the Angel franchise can be enjoyed as a stand-alone film.Molly Stewart who we have seen in two previous films as a teenager in high school and then as a college student in the second film now is an adult woman working as a photographer in New York.She goes back to Los Angeles when she discovers her long lost mother and finds out she has a half sister.It seems that her mother has become involved with international drug dealers who are holding her daughter hostage to force cooperation with them.When Molly's mother proves to be too troublesome she is killed.So Molly Stewart goes into her Angel persona to track down her mother's killers and find the lost half sister she discovered she has.The movie is so over the top that it actually works as a low budget action exploitation film.

brandonsites1981 Angel finds her mother, but she is shortly killed afterward in an explosion, but not before telling Angel that she has a sister. Now Angel goes back to being a streetwalker in order to find her and go head to head w/ Maud Adams.This piece of dreck is horribly made, and poor Maud who was once an extremely famous and respected actress is now stuck making crappy films like this.Rated R; Violence, Nudity, Profanity, Sexual Situations