“The Cutter” (*1/2 out of four) was a cut-rate action melodrama about a former cop (Chuck Norris) turned world-weary private investigator who is hired by a beautiful woman (Joanna Pacula) to help an aged diamond cutter (Bernie Kopell) with thugs who have extortion ties going all the way back to the Holocaust. Made in 2005 and being re-released now and was Chuck’s final action role before he understandably went into retirement. Norris is good as usual but story is seedy and exploitative and even the action scenes are clumsily staged.

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