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Vengeance is a 2014 direct-to-video film directed by Gil Medina and starring Danny Trejo and Diamond Dallas Page.

Premise
Jack (Danny Trejo) is a retired cop whose wife and daughter are murdered. He is then sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, however, upon being released he seeks revenge.

Cast

 * Danny Trejo as Jack Santos
 * Dallas Page as Spider Benson
 * Jason Mewes as Bobby Mewes
 * 50 Cent as Black
 * Robert John Burke as Det. Ron Banks
 * Tech N9ne as Choco
 * Baby Bash as Ricardo White


 * Donal Logue as Buzz (uncredited)
 * Houston Alexander as Strong Arm
 * Rocky Anderson as Defense Attorney
 * Liliana Arredondo as News Reporter #2
 * Brian Bailey as Sergeant Bailey
 * Tony Brown as Convenience store officer
 * Dean Bryant as Homeless man
 * Anna Colona as Baby
 * Clarissa Costa as Danielle Santos
 * Carol Diamond as Nurse Carol
 * Carlos Diaz as Charlie
 * Rashad Evans as K.O.
 * Antonio Fargas as Bert
 * Noel Gugliemi as Diablo
 * Kari Hawker-Diaz as Andrea
 * Nate Herd as Jock #1
 * Zach Howa as Zach Howa
 * David Ibarra as Warden Ibarra
 * Jim Jepson as Arresting Officer
 * Annalisa Johnson as Young Danielle
 * Jeff Johnson as Jimmy
 * Jennifer Klekas as News Reporter #1
 * Jesse Lopez as Chuy
 * Nelson Madrill Jr. as Kid playing
 * Brandi Madrill as Hispanic woman #2
 * Christofer Nelson Madrill as Baby in Car
 * Marie Madrill as Maria Santos
 * Nelson Madrill as Nelson Madrill
 * Sophie Madrill as Baby Danielle
 * Matt Mascaro as Jock #2
 * Gil Medina as Flaco
 * Steve Murphy as TRE 5
 * Savannah Ostler as Reporter
 * Winward Robert as Sulfur
 * Yogi Roth as Carl
 * Rosemberg Salgado as Robert/Store Clerk
 * Deangelo Simmons as Blacks Accountant
 * Zion Simmons as Young Black
 * Salvador Sanchez as Joker
 * Debbie Trejo as Nurse Debbie
 * Rhett Willman as Warden's guard
 * Brian Wimmer as Nick
 * Dave Wright as Dave Wright
 * Monika Zajac as Zora
 * Jeffrey Scott Jones as Homicide Detective
 * Sandy Romero as Loan Center employee

Development
The first trailer was released on May 22, 2010. The film's director Gil Medina is hoping for the film to receive a theatrical release. Trejo started a campaign for people who give away free copies of the DVD of the film to be given roles in the sequel. The film was released on February 22, 2014 in the United States. The filming dates took place between September 12, 2005 all the way to March 8 2008. The filming locations were at Salt Lake City, Utah, Hollywood, California, and Los Angeles, California.

Crew behind the scenes
The studio that was involved in it was ITN Studios. The casting was made by Jeff Johnson, makeup department was by Kathy Varga and so was the costume and wardrobe department, and the stunts were made by Cord Newman. The second unit directors were Steven Doxey, Kelly L. King, and Dave Moppert. The sound department consist of a sound mixer, foley artist, re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor and adr recordist / dialogue editor. Roger Davis was the sound mixer, Susan Fitz-Simon was the foley artist, Brett Hinton was the re-recording mixer, Danny Kim was the supervising sound editor, and Colin Rogers was the adr recordist / dialogue editor. The camera and electrical department consist of a director of photography: additional photography second unit, key grip, director of photography: second unit, and assistant camera. Jeshua De Horta was the director of photography: additional photography second unit, Kory Mills was the key grip, Kory Mortensen was the director of photography: second unit, and Manju Varghese was the assistant camera. The additional crew had a film commissioner that was uncredited and post production consultant. The film commissioner was Aaron Lee Syrett and the post production consultant was Micah Young. They also had sculpture art provided by Bruce Gray who also got uncredited.

Trailer
It starts off as with Jack Santos shooting someone that is not shown in the camera telling them that, "They have the right to go to hell". The track "Alone" by Rylee starts to play in the back as the trailer starts to roll into what it is going to be about. Jack Santos is standing near the graves of his wife and daughter mourning over them. It soon moves to a scene where the daughter and the wife seem to crash into a car by accident and they end being some gangsters inside the car. The soon begin to push the car and break the windows and the scene is cut not knowing what happened after the window broke. It soon moves to another scene of Jack Santos arriving at the crime scene being devastated about what he just saw. Another scene plays where he talks to a guy mentioning that, "If the law can't handle it I can" then going to a scene where Black and Jack Santos stare down at each other. Next scene shows Jack Santos preparing for vengeance after what as happened to him. The scene after that shows us that he has been put in jail for a crime he did not commit which shows him in full of anger ready to kill anyone that gets in his way. After various scenes we see Jack Santos going into his vengeance phase and show us multiple scenes of what happens. As those scenes play he states, "Justice made me a vigilante, prison made me an animal." We still get more clips of his killings and a close shot of the weapons he carries in the back of his trunk to help him finish his job. Ending the trailer with a shot of him being behind bars with him saying, "I will render vengeance to my enemies".

Promotion
In an article by Jared Nelson titled, "‘Danny Trejo’s Vengeance: Woz With A Coz’ is Apparently a Real Thing that is Happening" made in November 12, 2012 focuses on the game app that promotes the movie "Vengeance". The game is called "Danny Trejo’s Vengeance: Woz With A Coz". It seems that you are able to play as Danny Trejo and Steve Wozniak who is a co-founder of Apple and Outback Steakhouse enthusiast. In the article they also mention that they are not aware how relevant the premise of the game is similar to the plot of the movie. At the time that the article was out the app was only out only for tablets and not iOS. Also, the game was being a success and dominating the tablet market for games.

Reviews
The review from the website of Pajiba focuses on how they expect more from the movie once he watched the trailer because the trailer was not that good. But also on the same review they mention how Danny Trejo is giving away that movie for free as a way of saying thank you to the fans. The review tends to show a love for Danny Trejo so he really wants to enjoy the trailer but it does not seem like it. He mentions that the trailer looks poorly done and it changes his mind of how the movie can be. He also states that if the movie was just Danny Trejo beating up people he would still buy the movie.

Another review comes from The ScoreCard Review. It begins with a rating of three out of ten for the trailer of the movie. The writer mentions how they thought this whole trailer was a joke and how they just wasted two minutes and a half of their life on it. They start to mention that this can be interesting to people that are interested in Tarantino and Rodriguez collaboration in Grindhouse and/or fans of Machete. The person also mentions how they think this movie does not have a self-identity of what it is either trying to be or if it knows that it is a joke. It soon ends with the person saying that they will consider what they said if they release a better movie trailer and if they do not release one then it will be labeled as one of those movies that you watch while you are drunk.

Behind the scenes drama
In an article from CinemaBlend titled, "Robert Rodriguez Sued For Allegedly Threatening A Rival Danny Trejo Action Movie" by Eric Eisenberg focused on how Robert Rodriquez tried to stop the production of the movie all together. The reason why was because Rodriguez was worried that another movie where Danny Trejo stars in will affect the box office success in Machete Kills franchise. He realized how big of an issue it was because of the success the film and the mobile app was getting. There was also a report of how there was a deal where the movie Vengeance could have been a part of the Machete Kills franchise which could have worked for both of them but it seems that the deal was call off or just never went through.