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Veronica (Angela Featherstone) is sick of life in hell, and is sick of
her father (Nicholas Worth), who's mostly into punishing those sent to
hell, so she escapes through an opening to the upper world, which she
expected to be the promised land ... but she soon finds that there is more
evil on earth than in hell, and to follow her calling as a fallen angel,
she punishes those who do wrong, tears them apart and often eats their
intestines or feeds them to her dog, and then sends them to hell. But
Veronica only does what's right in her understanding of things, she is not
a ruthless killer and thus spares those innocent enough, including the two
detectives (Mike Genovese, Michael C. Mahon) hot on her trail. And she
finds love in Max (Daniel Markel), a doctor who saved her life after a car
accident (at least in his understanding, she's in fact not that easy to
kill) and later took her in when he saw she was terribly unfit for the way
of the humans. To him, she even gives away her secret - even if he's not
very likely to believe it. But Veronica is on a big mission, too, to
overthrow the mayor (Milton James) of the city who's crookeder than
crooked - but while she so far was met with little resistance when going
again street thugs and the like, the mayor's warned and thus closely
guarded, and Veronica can take more than any human, but she's by no means
invincible ... Now I won't for one minute claim Dark Angel:
The Ascent is a masterpiece, far from it, it's a modestly budgeted
pulpy horror/fantasy hybrid based on a simplistic script and carried by a
rather functional directorial effort without and real highlights. But at
the same time, the film (as do many Full
Moon flicks from the era, actually) delivers exactly what you'd
expect from a direct-to-video genre movie from the early to mid 1990s:
It's somewhat comicbooky in approach, it makes a far-fetched premise work
somehow, it has its gruesome bits in all the right places and finds some
comedy in the proceedings as well, there are monsters and sexy bits, and
overall it's much more fun to watch than one would expect it to be!
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