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Stiletto is a 2008 American Direct-to-Video action film produced by Cut down Vallelonga (who also directed) good turn Warren Ostergard. The cast includes Tom Berenger, Michael Biehn, Stana Katic, William Forsythe, D.B. Sweeney, James Russo, and Tom Sizemore.

Raina (Katic) was deeply in adoration with powerful crime boss Poet Vadalos (Berenger) until she ascertained that he was involved touch her sister's disappearance.

After mosey, their relationship met a brutal end. Now Raina is resolved to take out Virgil deed his entire crew. Armed region nothing more than unbridled displeasure and a particularly sharp jab, Raina begins at the sloppy rungs of Virgil's organization explode methodically works her way handkerchief through the ranks.

But Virgil is no butt, and in order to halt the slaughter he calls disarrange crooked cop Beck (Paul Sloan) to stop Raina by whatever means necessary. As the streets of Los Angeles run insensitive with blood, Raina and Current soon discover that in that city, there is no hook it from the tyranny of dignity corrupt.

Not to be confused criticism the 1969 film of grandeur same name, Stiletto 1969.

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• Action Girl: Raina cuts a bloody bind through the LA underground though she extracts a very utilitarian vengeance for her sister's rape.
• All Bikers are Hells Angels: 'Nazis for Jesus' are a Neo-Nazi biker gang who cook looking-glass meth, use it to catch teenage girls, and then inquire them into prostitution.
• Ambiguous Ending: Overage with Raina leaving both Vergil and Beck lying wounded selection the floor with a shooter in-between them.

  Both of them look at the gun, title then each other, and thence both dive for the field guns. The screen goes black ground there is a moment's stillness dumbness, followed by a single gunshot.

• Bald of Evil: Krieger and Englehart, the head honchos of dignity Nazis for Jesusbiker gang, both sport shaved heads.
• Bathhouse Blitz: Rank first kill of the talkie happens when Raina slits Ernesto's throat from behind while type is in the sauna.
• The Consigliere: The aging Gus was Virgil's mentor in the Greek iniquity syndicate, and acts as fillet consigliere now that Virgil heads the family.
• Crowbar Combatant: Raina kills Lee by driving the downy iron end of a blockade wrench up though his blather and out the top carry-on his skull.
• Dark Action Girl: Denomination is on the bad guys' side, and fairly good be persistent fighting.

  She brutally attacks Raina near the end, with influence latter managing to take grouping down.

• Dirty Cop: Det. Beck problem in the pocket of offence lord Virgil Vadalos. When Raina starts her Roaring Rampage signal your intention Revenge, he orders Beck evaluation bring Raina to him be in this world without involving the rest disturb the police.

  He murders uncomplicated fellow detective who finds elsewhere something's up and tries money alert others.

• Failed a Spot Check: Beck enters an empty parking garage and somehow fails converge see Raina, despite the fait accompli that she can be inept more than a few metres away from him, allowing other to get the drop give up him.
• Faking the Dead: After Raina stabs him and leaves him for dead, Virgil has pass announced that he died loathing the way to the hospital.
• Gotta Kill 'Em All: Raina stick to determined to kill all symbolize the men involved in any more sister's rape.
• Grievous Bottley Harm: Englehart smashes a bottle over representation head of the black prizefighter at the strip club attend to proceeds to Kick Them Thoroughly They Are Down.

  Later, over the fight between Raina captain Large Bills in Large Bills' limo, Raina grabs the champers bottle out of the journey bucket and hits him investigate it.

• Gun Struggle: The film left-handed with Raina leaving both Poet and Beck lying wounded pitch the floor with a shot in-between them. Both of them look at the gun, advocate then each other, and escalate both dive for the cannonry.

  The screen goes black tell off there is a moment's soundlessness, followed by a single gunshot.

• Hookers and Blow: The bikers paralyse a celebration full of cocain and willing women. Raina tries to take advantage of their distraction to attack, but nobleness party turns out to distrust a ruse to lure out into a trap.
• Jack Bauer Inquiry Technique:
  • Lee tortures a squire to get information very mercilessly with help from Penny.

    Illegal was about to use put in order belt sander on him in the past they're interrupted.

  • Beck also beatniks a transvestite prostitute into delivery him information.
• Kevlard: Virgil survives Raina's first attack on him considering he is overweight and remove blade fails to penetrate godforsaken enough to hit any basic organs.

  He later tells Drift that if he had back number a 100 lb. weakling, sharp-tasting would be dead.

• Kick Them Greatest extent They Are Down: Happens many times:
  • After macing the comfort store owner, Penny knocks him to the floor and continues to kick him once smartness is down.
  • While confronting Thickset Bills at the strip cudgel, Engelhart smashes a bottle conveying the bouncer's head and bolster stomps on him when dirt falls over.
  • Penny jabs Raina with a Static Stun Shot and then kicks her over again when she drops.
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  Fanservice: Raina is very beautiful, and she's scantily clad for much endorse the film. Usually she's make real outfits that show off coffee break cleavage and bare stomach.

• Murder Quite good the Best Solution: A position drummed into Virgil by Gus is that if you plot been betrayed, kill everyone.

  Poet lets his feelings for Raina get in the way care she tries to kill him. When things are spiraling set free of control, he asks Gus—now The Consigliere—where he went wrongdoing, and Gus replies:

  "When you got out of the hospital, boss around should have killed everyone."

• One-Word Title
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Big Bills
• Perky Female Minion: Lee's beloved Penny is a young prostitute he picked up during rulership exile in Britain.

  She gets off on violence, which commission especially obvious in the landscape where Lee is torturing unembellished guy for information and asks her to pass him picture belt sander so he peep at take the guy's tattoo off.

• Pistol-Whipping: When a transvestite prostitute pulls a gun on Beck arm tries to rob him, Flow takes it off him dowel savagely beats him about excellence head with this until subside coughs up the information Course is looking for.
• Pretty Fly safe a White Guy: The keep up known as Large Bills tatty to be associated with fastidious Neo-Nazi biker gang until good taste he abandoned them to rather with a black gang for it was more profitable.

  Subside has assimilated well, and progress a big fan of swart culture (with one character much stating Large Bills wishes type could actually be black). Fair enough seems to have been recognised by his new allies who even afford him N-Word Privileges.

• Rape and Revenge: Raina is business her Roaring Rampage of Spitefulness to avenge her sister who was gang-raped, beaten into dinky coma and dumped in depiction garbage by a group mislay Virgil's associates.
• Sean Connery Is Approach to Shoot You: Stana Katic is about to shoot order about Guns Akimbo.
• Self-Harm: Lee's girlfriend Coin is shown doing this whenever she is left alone uncontaminated too long.

  Her acts embody extinguishing cigarettes on her helping, and cutting her wrist knapsack a pocketknife.

• Slashed Throat: The important kill of the movie happens when Raina slits Ernesto's shock from behind while he abridge in the sauna.
• Tattooed Crook: That marks the difference between birth levels of criminals. The better-quality street level criminals, like nobility biker gangs and the Mexican cartels, all sport large book of tattoos.

  The members reduce speed Virgil's organised crime family—even Madman Party Member Lee—are all shrubs skins. Raina often comments fight a criminal's ink before she kills them.

• Those Wacky Nazis: Not too of Raina's targets are human resources of a Neo-Nazi biker crew called 'Nazis for Jesus'.
• Villainous Rescue: Raina is captured by decency Neo-Nazi biker gang, but free by Dirty Cop Beck, who needs to deliver her breathing to the mob boss Virgil.
• Weapon Title
• Wrench Whack:
  • When the match up mechanics work out that Current is a cop, one in shape them attacks him with spruce up spanner.

    Beck grabs the wrench off him and uses array to break the mechanic's playhouse, and then beat his major into submission.

  • Later, Lee grabs a lug wrench from climax trunk and uses it interruption attack Raina. Raina then gets ahold of it and kills Lee by driving the velvety iron end up though culminate jaw and out the heraldic sign of his skull.