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Angel 3: Final Chapter [VHS]

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The first two movies in this series (1984's "Angel" and 1985's "Avenging Angel") were cinematic masterpieces. A good mix of humor, sex, violence, and some great acting. You really felt what Molly Stuart a/k/a Angel was going through. They were also believable. Like so many other movies that turn into a "series" the producers eventually got greedy and forgot formula in order to put out another hit. This is what we get in Angel 3. And despite the title, it's not the final chapter for our street heroine. She pops up again in "Angel 4: Undercover." You don't need to guess what she goes undercover as in the 4th installment of the series. But I digress. The first time Molly a/k/a Angel must go undercover as a street prostitute in Avenging Angel to track down the killers of the cop who saved her in the original Angel, it is believable. But, in Angel 3, she does it again when her long lost sister falls into the clutches of madame Maude Adams. First of all, Molly did NOT have a sister, that was not even an issue in the first two. How can she have one now? Also, even Molly won't go undercover again as a hooker, she's not that dumb. And, I might add, even when she was "undercover" in Avenging Angel, she did not turn any tricks (in fact, she turned no trick in the original Angel either, but a killer was after her, so it was understandable). How believable is that? So, she goes to work for madame Maude Adams, but manages to not turn any tricks once again? The first time, ok, this time, not believable. Where this movie really hits low is that it's about call girls and a high class brothel. The exciting factor of the first two--street prostitution--is lost here. And Maude Adams isn't remotely believable as the hardened madame selling her girls into white slavery in Asia. Come on! For fans of the Angel series, this is still a "must see" but not something for your personal library like Angel and Avenging Angel. Sadly, the original Molly a/k/a Angel Donna Wilkes is missing from this movie as well.