I watched this because I had mis remembered another movies title. Years ago I watched 'Executioner II' and I thought this was the original. On further research it turns out there is no 'Executioner I', just II, they started and ended with II. This was done for marketing? An injoke? To imply more back story? Ironically there is an 'Exterminator II'.
These franchises are basically the same as they both concern a vigilante and the cop who is trying to stop them. Street toughs paralyze Steve James who had saved his buddy Robert Ginty's life in Vietnam, so Ginty goes vigilante on them and then just keeps doing it, moving on to an organized crime boss and then to a pedophile ring. Ginty is versatile in his weapons choices as well, including pistol, AR-15 and flame thrower.
Christopher George is the good guy cop out to stop this extra legal killing, he too is a war veteran. Samantha Eggers is a doctor who George is romancing. There is also a CIA agent out to stop Ginty because his actions somehow threaten the president's reelection; the Agency under Carter was viscious.
Low budget but surprisingly watchable. One of my favorite moments is when Ginty first gets wind of the pedo's after he goes to have consensual sex with a prostitute, she happens to have had runins with the ring who wanted her for a three way. Despite all these plot elements the movie was tamer then I'd expected as regards what is actually shown on screen. **
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