Tamerlane:
Disagree, in that it’s the taking of the hostage who he has become so attached to as a surrogate parent that causes him to go over the top trying to get her back. He isn’t called in specifically to do the job, he was already on it. Before the trauma of losing his client he was a simple burnt-out bodyguard, after he’s a ferocious engine of vengeance.
Or maybe you could say it is both. But his reaction is definitely emotional, rather than strictly professional, hence the title of the film.
Slight hijack, I took the cigarette lighter out of my car for six months after i saw that movie, And i am a smoker lol
lissener:
Yeah,* Falling Down *is about a man going insane, to oversimplify; it’s not about an honorable man pushed to the edge and forced to fight to defend what’s right, as in the other movies mentioned here.
Unless gender is a limiting factor, I offer the following:
*I Spit on Your Grave
Does the entire genre of Rape/Revenge count?* Last House on the Left, Lipstick, I Drink Your Blood, *the afore-mentioned Death Wish etc etc would all certainly apply.