“American Badger” (**1/2 out of four) was a reasonably well-done pulp action thriller about a cold-blooded hitman (Kirk Caouette who also wrote and directed) who is assigned to befriend a call girl (Andrea Stefancikova) who he starts to fall for but he finds his own sense of purpose and professionalism at a crossroads when he is then assigned to kill her and has to turn on his criminal underworld family in order to keep her alive. Better-than-average for this type of thing with both fierce action scenes and some strong dialogue and character development; not a total success (story wanders at various points) but Caouette does overall good work on both sides of the camera.