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Posted by admin On December - 29 - 2008

When it comes right down to it, if you dont have the right people on screen saying those lines and making you believe them, then the film more often than not is sunk. As events quickly spiral out of control, Zeus is backed up against the wall and must find way out of this situation not only for himself but for his loved ones as well. Anyone who has watched enough smallbudget, independent film knows that the one element that can make project sink or swim is the acting.

You can have the best script, production design, special effects, etc. Yet it is all too easy to make thriller that is high on violence and attitude and low on story and character. Anyone who has watched enough smallbudget, independent film knows that the one element that can make project sink or swim is the acting. If one were to find reasonable correlative to compare him to, young Harvey Keitel springs to mind. Thankfully, Valley of Angels avoids that problem brilliantly and instead delivers both heartpounding thriller and meditative drama.

Bullied into dangerous task by his supplier Hector Danny Trejo, Zeus is forced to dodge bullets and keep those around him safe and alive or else face not only his own death but Hectors wrath, which

Constantly on the edge of snapping, he not only puts Zeus put the audience on point as well. Anyone who has watched enough smallbudget, independent film knows that the one element that can make project sink or swim is the acting.

Constantly searching for path out of the moral decay he exists in, he finally sees his chance in Lisa Caroline Macey young, innocent woman who is the first person to bring Zeus any sense of spiritual peace. His plans to start his life anew with her are interrupted however by more sinister forces. As Hector, Trejo tears into every scene with fistclenching intensity. men who led full, rough lives before coming to acting and whose toughness was never questioned by the audience.

You can have the best script, production design, special effects, etc. As events quickly spiral out of control, Zeus is backed up against the wall and must find way out of this situation not only for himself but for his loved ones as well. Anyone who has watched enough smallbudget, independent film knows that the one element that can make project sink or swim is the acting.