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www.reelfilm.com - : Blackheart, starring Richard Grieco, is a bit of an oddity. On the one hand, it's a rather touching and genuinely convincing love story, featuring two reticent strangers reluctant to get involved due to past heartbreaks. But on the other hand, it's a routine straight-to-video thriller, predictable along every turn of the plot and completely uninteresting. Grieco stars as a con man under the thumb of a ruthless con woman (played by Maria Conchita Alonso, in a fairly one-note performance). Eventually, he tires of following her orders and kills her (or so he thinks). He relocates, changes his name and starts taking night-school classes. Across the hall from his apartment is a beatiful young woman he quickly becomes infatuated with, and arranges a ''chance'' meeting. The two hit it off and fall in love. But even though Grieco may be done with the past, more...
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