**SPOILERS** Listless and confusing made or TV movie about a masked, who also seems to be wearing a scuba-diving outfit, vigilante who's out on the streets of Austin Texas taking out child abusers, in many cases their fathers, and pedophiles.
When Officer Ben Simms', Sean Partick Flaney, wife Lori, Alaina Kalanj, is gunned down trying to protect her daughter Cassie, Emma Nicolas, from being kidnapped by registered sex offender John Cutter, Steve Krieger, he completely loses it in him going out of his way in enforcing the law when it comes to sexual predators and offenders. Instead of being given, before he kills someone in his custody, a desk job Simms is put on the case of the vigilante child sex abusers killings which he's very much, the vigilante's actions, in favor of. It's very obvious from the start that both the citizens of Austin as well members of the Austin Police Department are the least interested in capturing the vigilante in that he's cleaning up the streets of the city of dangerous sex offenders. This becomes very clear when a very reluctant Simms is given Daphne Jocelyn, Joey Lauren Adams, as his partner in finding and arresting the vigilante. Having been working in traffic court, giving out parking tickets, a major criminal case like this is usually given to a much more experienced cop who handlers homicides and kidnappings then a green rookie as well as ticket writer like Daphne is! Which shows how unconcerned the higher ups in the police department are in catching the vigilante.
Later Cutter in his trying to kidnap little Brianna, Joanne McCray, in a local park is confronted by the masked vigilante who quickly, with his expertise of the martial arts, puts him away with a cracked skull and a few broken bones. It's at Cutter's arraignment that two unexpected things happen. Simms trying to take the law into is own hands-Jack Ruby-style- and gun Cutter down on the steps of Hall of Justice is beaten to the punch by the vigilante! The vigilante hiding on a garage roof overlooking the Hall of Justice puts a high powered bullet through Cutter-bulletproof vest and all-before Simms could even get off a single shot!
The rest of the movie has you guessing just who this vigilante is who, after icing Cutter, escaped from being captured by Simms' partner Officer Roland,Brian MaNamara, with what seems like something, a flying teaser, straight out of Batmans's famed utility belt! Soon the vigilante angle of the movie starts to get a bit tiring in that he's able to pick up police radio calls, from what looks like his state-of-the-art control center, that puts him a step ahead of the police who, like Officer Simms, are not at all interested in capturing him.
***SPOILER*** It's only when Simm's daughter Cassie is later kidnapped that the film, after almost putting you to sleep, again becomes interesting! You know that Cassie's kidnapper can't be the late John Cutter who earlier murder her mom, as he unsuccessfully tried to kidnap her, so who in blazes can he be! It takes Officer Joceyn, and the vigilante who's listening in on her radio calls, to figure out who Cassie's kidnapper is. He turns out to be someone who has very close connections to not only Simms & Joceyn but to the late John Cutter himself! And that sets up the movies unbelievable final sequence where the mysterious vigilante's identity is reviled but also, which is far more surprising, how totally impossible, in the condition he's in, he could have pulled off what he did all throughout the entire movie!
When Officer Ben Simms', Sean Partick Flaney, wife Lori, Alaina Kalanj, is gunned down trying to protect her daughter Cassie, Emma Nicolas, from being kidnapped by registered sex offender John Cutter, Steve Krieger, he completely loses it in him going out of his way in enforcing the law when it comes to sexual predators and offenders. Instead of being given, before he kills someone in his custody, a desk job Simms is put on the case of the vigilante child sex abusers killings which he's very much, the vigilante's actions, in favor of. It's very obvious from the start that both the citizens of Austin as well members of the Austin Police Department are the least interested in capturing the vigilante in that he's cleaning up the streets of the city of dangerous sex offenders. This becomes very clear when a very reluctant Simms is given Daphne Jocelyn, Joey Lauren Adams, as his partner in finding and arresting the vigilante. Having been working in traffic court, giving out parking tickets, a major criminal case like this is usually given to a much more experienced cop who handlers homicides and kidnappings then a green rookie as well as ticket writer like Daphne is! Which shows how unconcerned the higher ups in the police department are in catching the vigilante.
Later Cutter in his trying to kidnap little Brianna, Joanne McCray, in a local park is confronted by the masked vigilante who quickly, with his expertise of the martial arts, puts him away with a cracked skull and a few broken bones. It's at Cutter's arraignment that two unexpected things happen. Simms trying to take the law into is own hands-Jack Ruby-style- and gun Cutter down on the steps of Hall of Justice is beaten to the punch by the vigilante! The vigilante hiding on a garage roof overlooking the Hall of Justice puts a high powered bullet through Cutter-bulletproof vest and all-before Simms could even get off a single shot!
The rest of the movie has you guessing just who this vigilante is who, after icing Cutter, escaped from being captured by Simms' partner Officer Roland,Brian MaNamara, with what seems like something, a flying teaser, straight out of Batmans's famed utility belt! Soon the vigilante angle of the movie starts to get a bit tiring in that he's able to pick up police radio calls, from what looks like his state-of-the-art control center, that puts him a step ahead of the police who, like Officer Simms, are not at all interested in capturing him.
***SPOILER*** It's only when Simm's daughter Cassie is later kidnapped that the film, after almost putting you to sleep, again becomes interesting! You know that Cassie's kidnapper can't be the late John Cutter who earlier murder her mom, as he unsuccessfully tried to kidnap her, so who in blazes can he be! It takes Officer Joceyn, and the vigilante who's listening in on her radio calls, to figure out who Cassie's kidnapper is. He turns out to be someone who has very close connections to not only Simms & Joceyn but to the late John Cutter himself! And that sets up the movies unbelievable final sequence where the mysterious vigilante's identity is reviled but also, which is far more surprising, how totally impossible, in the condition he's in, he could have pulled off what he did all throughout the entire movie!
