The Red Maple Leaf

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The Red Maple Leaf is one of those rare movies that makes you remember why watching a good film stays with you long after the end credits have rolled. From the opening, intense scenes we are instantly captivated by the torment that haunts Special Agent Alfonso Palermo (Frank D'Angelo) and his daily struggle with his demons. Without giving the plot away, this film captures the essence of old school Hollywood thrillers. D'Angelo writes, directs and acts from a place of pure connection to the material he is sharing and it rubs off on the rest of the cast. There aren't many movies that can boast such a stellar cast who all seem to be relishing their roles. The whole movie has an air of gritty realism, with each scene a box of delights of realistic dialogue, great camera work and a subtle soundtrack that works in harmony with the story. This is what movies used to be like, D'Angelo's direction is a joy to watch and his performance along with the big names in this movie is unmissable. This is definitely a movie you're going to watch two or threes - there's so much to take in.

When watching this movie I was actually glued to my seat! Seriously, If I hadn't been glued to my seat I would of got up and walked out after the first 5 mins!!LOL When I saw the cast I thought Cool but after watching it was more Drool. When viewing parts of the film and its various characters I thought I was watching scenes from the Walking dead, no offense to Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino and Margot Kidder etc. I'm sure the positive reviews on here are from the casual film fan shall we say and to add comments like " I was entertained throughout" and " There were so many plot twists" Haha!! I was more entertained reading some of the reviews on here. I do not claim to be a film critic but seriously it sucked big time but hey what do I know about the Film business. Mr S S Pielberg

I lasted 27 minutes on this gem. Do not let the cast members fool you. The dialogue is woeful, and the lead actor is absolutely terrible. I usually don't write reviews, but I can usually sit through a bad film.

When I read the first few reviews for this film I thoought I was watching a different film to everyone else. , terrible acting. Laughable at times and poor editing. Don't think I will be watching anything with Deangelo involved in again.

A bunch of B-rated or old actors in a movie that makes it way by piling up scenes that we all have seen so many times before. It starts well but it's not long before the clichés are becoming patetic in it's atempts to be a interesting movie. It doesn't work - at all.

Watching a pile of horse dung will be more entertaining! The worst movie ever... not hard to see the 9/10 and 10/10 reviews were bought and paid for by D'Angelo. He really thinks hes this hotshot director/actor...clearly NOT!

I hate long reviews about how good the cinematography was or how good the direction was, i watch a film because i want to be entertained for 90 minutes and this wasnt it,2 hours of dribble,started well with a kidnap,after that it was so bad i watched it cos i thought it couldnt get any worse....it did, anyone that can watch this for 2 hours and say it was good you really need to get out more,and the folk that said they stood up cheering at the end.....REALLY !!! it was very very poor very poor,even the good actors were bad!!!

Now I do believe IMDB has become the Disneyland for hired guns and mouthpieces to give other viewers fake, phony and lying reviews. When a film is such a lousy production, yet there are so many fake 10/10 reviews rushed in like swarming locusts giving blind praises to it. Obviously, these reviewers are either friends, relatives or all those people who are friends or relatives of these friends and relatives. This film, before it's even showed its title, was doomed to be a lousy film. The script was so poor and the directing so lazy. After the traffic accident, this guy's wife and daughter were both killed in the crash, yet this guy who survived, just sat on the rear bumper of an ambulance, without any bruise, any trace of blood, the guy was still in a perfect condition. If his wife and daughter were both killed in a fatal crash, this guy at least should have some bruises, wounds and some bleedings, yet he's in perfect condition. Then when his colleague knocked on his door but he didn't answer, the guy just found the door key in a colorful ceramic cartoon figure which was so stupidly put on a stone in this guy's front yard. Who would be that stupid putting his front door key in such obvious place? What a lousy arrangement. Then we got the more damaging proof that this film is a bad one, since there are so many bad actors who only showed in bad B movies. When film proceeded along, you just couldn't help but jumped out of your chair and yelled: "Jesus, what a stupid movie!!"