![]() Determined to get justice for her family, Rachel breaks into Morgan's office and faces Santos again, finally killing him. She jumps into the river, and is still arrested by Meeker, but she crashes the ambulance and escapes. ![]() As Meeker tries to talk him down, its revealed Ray has actually been Rachel, Ray having died from his wounds two years ago at the station. Upon arriving though, they're spotted by the FBI who chase Ray to the roof of a baseball stadium. The three meet at a diner and Ray gets Santos to tell him his employer's name, Diana Morgan, with the promise they'll meet again in Pittsburg. ![]() They trap Shah's car and Ray tries to interrogate him, but he's killed by Santos who's been following Shah. Ray plans to go after Shah and Rachel convinces him to take her with him. The next morning, two mercenaries break into the motel and Ray kills them both, placing further strain between him and Rachel. Rachel, concerned about Ray's quest for revenge contacts FBI Agent Sarah Meeker and tries to convince her to look into BioPrime. Ray takes Rachel and they hide in a motel outside of town. As Keeley tells him it was Chairman Vinod Shah that signs off on all hits, one of Keeley's bodyguards attacks Ray and Ray accidentally kills him and Keeley. He sneaks into a gala honouring Keeley and interrogates him about the hit on Bennett and the bribes. Two years later, Ray has been investigating Keeley on his own. As the train stops at a station, Santos stabs Ray and knocks out Rachel, leaving them both on the platform and getting away on the train. Santos kills Bennett and attacks Ray and Rachel. Bennett explains that BioPrime has been bribing anyone who questions their dirty deeds, including the company that made the drug Amanda needed to save her life. They meet on a subway, unknowingly followed by Rachel and a hitman named Santos. Six months later, Ray receives a call from a reporter, Martin Bennett, who tells him he can help him get justice for Amanda. Keeley doesn't take the threat seriously and Amanda passes soon after, devastating Ray and their daughter, Rachel. Watching Keeley on a live debate with Congresswoman Diana Morgan, Ray calls in and threatens Keeley, saying if he doesn't reverse it, he'll kill him. Her husband, Ray, finds out a potentially life saving drug for Amanda was pulled off the market, due to BioPrime CEO Simon Keeley's new business move. To her credit, Merced manages to sell her character’s fighting skills to a significant degree, while Momoa is so physically intimidating that you wonder why Ray isn’t a WWE star.In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Amanda Cooper falls ill with cancer. It’s strained even more when the diminutive, not exactly imposing Rachel showcases similar abilities, although her untapped aggression is signaled in an early scene in which she loses control during a boxing lesson and nearly kills her male opponent. The film’s true stars are the stunt and fight coordinators who render these clashes in visceral, mostly realistic fashion, although they eventually lose impact through their sheer repetitiveness.Ĭredibility is strained to the breaking point when Ray displays an uncanny ability to outfight the bad guys, including a suave assassin (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, quietly stealing the film) who can shoot people without even looking at them. While the relationship between Ray and Rachel, who proves as hard-edged a fighter as her dad, is movingly depicted, Sweet Girl quickly degenerates into a mindless series of ultraviolent hand-to-hand combat sequences. They’re pursued by a pair of FBI agents, including the sympathetic Sarah (Lex Scott Davis), who establishes a rapport with Rachel after the concerned girl calls her. His subsequent violent encounter with Keeley results in numerous fatalities, after which Ray and Rachel take it on the lam. Screenwriters: Gregg Hurwitz, Philip EisnerĪ distraught Ray doesn’t exactly hide his feelings when he calls into a television interview with the company’s smarmy CEO, Simon Keeley ( Justin Bartha), and threatens, “If my wife dies, it’s your death sentence.” Not longer after, Amanda does indeed die, and it becomes apparent what kind of revenge thriller Sweet Girl intends to be.Ī subsequent clandestine meeting between Ray and an investigative journalist ends badly when the journalist is savagely murdered and Ray engages in a vicious brawl with the killer, suffering a stab wound in the process. Cast: Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Adria Arjona, Raza Jaffrey, Justin Barha, Lex Scott Davis, Michael Raymond-Jones, Amy Brenneman
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