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''Stiletto'' is a 2008 American DirectToVideo action film directed by Nick Vallelonga and produced by Nick Vallelonga and Warren Ostergard. It stars Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/StanaKatic, Creator/WilliamForsythe, and Creator/TomSizemore.
Raina (Katic) was deeply in love with powerful crime boss Virgil Vadalos (Berenger) until she discovered that he was involved with her sister's disappearance. After that, their relationship met a violent end. Now Raina is determined to take out Virgil and his entire crew. With nothing more than unbridled fury and a particularly sharp knife, Raina starts at the lower rungs of Virgil's organization and methodically begins moving her way up through the ranks. But Virgil is no sucker, and in order to stop the slaughter he calls on crooked cop Beck (Paul Sloan) to stop Raina no matter what it takes. Now, as the streets of Los Angeles run red with blood, Raina and Beck discover that in this city, there is no escaping the tyranny of the corrupt.
''Stiletto'' is a 2008 American DirectToVideo action film directed by Nick Vallelonga and produced by Nick Vallelonga and Warren Ostergard. It stars Creator/TomBerenger, Creator/MichaelBiehn, Creator/StanaKatic, Creator/WilliamForsythe, and Creator/TomSizemore.
Raina (Katic) was deeply in love with powerful crime boss Virgil Vadalos (Berenger) until she discovered that he was involved with her sister's disappearance. After that, their relationship met a violent end. Now Raina is determined to take out Virgil and his entire crew. With nothing more than unbridled fury and a particularly sharp knife, Raina starts at the lower rungs of Virgil's organization and methodically begins moving her way up through the ranks. But Virgil is no sucker, and in order to stop the slaughter he calls on crooked cop Beck (Paul Sloan) to stop Raina no matter what it takes. Now, as the streets of Los Angeles run red with blood, Raina and Beck discover that in this city, there is no escaping the tyranny of the corrupt.
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''Stiletto'' is a 2008 American DirectToVideo action film
Raina (Katic) was deeply in love with powerful crime boss Virgil Vadalos (Berenger) until she discovered that he was involved with her sister's disappearance. After that, their relationship met a violent end. Now Raina is determined to take out Virgil and his entire crew.
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Not to be confused with the 1969 film of the same name.
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* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: Creator/StanaKatic is about to shoot you GunsAkimbo.
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* BathhouseBlitz: The first kill of the movie happens when Raina [[SlashedThroat slits Ernesto's throat]] from behind while he is in the sauna.
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* DirtyCop: Det. Beck is in the pocket of crime lord Virgil Vadalos. When Raina starts he RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he orders Beck to bring Raina to him alive without involving the rest of the police. [[spoiler:He murders a fellow detective who finds out something's up and tries to alert others.]]
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* DirtyCop: Det. Beck is in the pocket of crime lord Virgil Vadalos. When Raina starts he her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he orders Beck to bring Raina to him alive without involving the rest of the police. [[spoiler:He murders a fellow detective who finds out something's up and tries to alert others.]]
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* DirtyCop: Det. Beck is in the pocket of crime lord Virgil Vadalos. When Raina starts he RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he orders Beck to bring Raina to him alive without involving the rest of the police.
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* DarkActionGirl: Penny is on the bad guys' side, and fairly good at fighting. She brutally attacks Raina near the end, with the latter managing to take her down.
* DirtyCop: Det. Beck is in the pocket of crime lord Virgil Vadalos. When Raina starts he RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he orders Beck to bring Raina to him alive without involving the rest of the police. [[spoiler:He murders a fellow detective who finds out something's up and tries to alert others.]]
* DirtyCop: Det. Beck is in the pocket of crime lord Virgil Vadalos. When Raina starts he RoaringRampageOfRevenge, he orders Beck to bring Raina to him alive without involving the rest of the police. [[spoiler:He murders a fellow detective who finds out something's up and tries to alert others.]]
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Englehart smashes a bottle over the head of the black bouncer at the strip club and proceeds to KickThemWhileTheyAreDown. Later, during the fight between Raina and Large Bills in Large Bills' limo, Raina grabs the champagne bottle out of the ice bucket at hits him with it.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: Englehart smashes a bottle over the head of the black bouncer at the strip club and proceeds to KickThemWhileTheyAreDown. Later, during the fight between Raina and Large Bills in Large Bills' limo, Raina grabs the champagne bottle out of the ice bucket at and hits him with it.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique:
** Lee tortures a man to get information ''very'' brutally with help from Penny. He was about to use a ''belt sander'' on him before they're interrupted.
** Beck also beats a transvestite prostitute into giving him information.
** Lee tortures a man to get information ''very'' brutally with help from Penny. He was about to use a ''belt sander'' on him before they're interrupted.
** Beck also beats a transvestite prostitute into giving him information.
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* PerkyFemaleMinion: Lee's girlfriend Penny is a young {{Streetwalker}} he picked up during is exile in Britain. She gets off on violence, which is especially obvious in the scene where Lee is torturing a guy for information and asks her to pass him the belt sander so he can take the guy's tattoo off.
* PistolWhipping: When a transvestite prostitute pulls a gun on Beck and tries to rob him, Beck takes it off him and savagely beats him about the head with until he coughs up the information he is looking for.
* PistolWhipping: When a transvestite prostitute pulls a gun on Beck and tries to rob him, Beck takes it off him and savagely beats him about the head with until he coughs up the information he is looking for.
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* PerkyFemaleMinion: Lee's girlfriend Penny is a young {{Streetwalker}} {{streetwalker}} he picked up during is his exile in Britain. She gets off on violence, which is especially obvious in the scene where Lee is torturing a guy for information and asks her to pass him the belt sander so he can take the guy's tattoo off.
* PistolWhipping: When a transvestite prostitute pulls a gun on Beck and tries to rob him, Beck takes it off him and savagely beats him about the head with this until he coughs up the informationhe Beck is looking for.
* PistolWhipping: When a transvestite prostitute pulls a gun on Beck and tries to rob him, Beck takes it off him and savagely beats him about the head with this until he coughs up the information
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** When the two mechanics work out that Beck is a cop, one of them attacks him with a spanner. Beck grabs the spanner of him and uses it to break the mechanic's leg, and then beat his mate into submission.
** Later, Lee grabs a lug wrench from his trunk and uses it to attack Raina. Raina then gets hold of it and kills Lee by [[CrowbarCombatant driving the tyre iron end]] up though his jaw and out the top of his skull.
** Later, Lee grabs a lug wrench from his trunk and uses it to attack Raina. Raina then gets hold of it and kills Lee by [[CrowbarCombatant driving the tyre iron end]] up though his jaw and out the top of his skull.
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** When the two mechanics work out that Beck is a cop, one of them attacks him with a spanner. Beck grabs the spanner of off him and uses it to break the mechanic's leg, and then beat his mate into submission.
** Later, Lee grabs a lug wrench from his trunk and uses it to attack Raina. Raina then getshold ahold of it and kills Lee by [[CrowbarCombatant driving the tyre iron end]] up though his jaw and out the top of his skull.
** Later, Lee grabs a lug wrench from his trunk and uses it to attack Raina. Raina then gets
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* OnlyKnownbyTheirNickname: Large Bills
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* OnlyKnownbyTheirNickname: OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Large Bills
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* MsFanservice: Raisa is very beautiful, and she's scantily clad for much of the film. Usually she's in outfits that show off her cleavage and bare stomach.
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* MsFanservice: Raisa Raina is very beautiful, and she's scantily clad for much of the film. Usually she's in outfits that show off her cleavage and bare stomach.
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She uses a knife mostly. Ms Fanservice definitely does apply though. A minor edit too.
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* MsFanservice: Raisa is very beautiful, and she's scantily clad for much of the film. Usually she's in outfits that show off her cleavage and bare stomach.
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* TattooedCrook: Marks the difference between the levels of criminals. The more street level criminals, like the biker gangs and the Mexican cartels, all sport large numbers of tattoos. The members of Virgil's organised crime family--even PsychoPartyMember Lee--are all clean skins. Raina often comments on a criminals ink before she kills them.
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* TattooedCrook: Marks This marks the difference between the levels of criminals. The more street level criminals, like the biker gangs and the Mexican cartels, all sport large numbers of tattoos. The members of Virgil's organised crime family--even PsychoPartyMember Lee--are all clean skins. Raina often comments on a criminals criminal's ink before she kills them.
