I love movies about unstoppable people out for revenge: The Limey and Taken come immediately to mind. Any other suggestions?
The Count of Monte Cristo is a good one.
Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Face/Off, Oldboy, The Glass House.
Commando
Blood Sister: One Tough Nun
Punisher, Monte Cristo, Mad Max, Death Wish, Kill Bill, Josey Wales.
I’m not too sure about Josey Wales because it seems that once he settles in with his “new people” he would have been happy to leave things in the past, which sort of fails the “unstoppable and implacable” condition. Of course, that doesn’t happen.
The best “unstoppable” one is Kill Bill. You get the feeling she really would butcher or sacrifice anyone who got in her way. The others not so much. There are definitely some things Paul Kersey would never do. Frank Castle would never sacrifice someone (other than himself) to get revenge. The Bride just might. You can’t really be too sure about her.
“Point Blank” (1967) with Lee Marvin. Classic. It rules.
I see Kill Bill above – how about Truffaut’s “La mariee etait en noir” (The Bride Wore Black). Not a great movie, but well worth watching.
Not strictly a revenge movie, but I’ll add in “The Killers” (Siodmak, 1946) or even the 1964 Don Siegel version, I guess, but the first one has a lot of payback in it. Kitty is innocent, Kitty is innocent, I swear!
Law Abiding Citizen was an odd variant.
Get Carter (the original, with Caine). One that I rather liked even though it is kind of a deconstruction of the revenge movie genre is Death Sentence, with Kevin Bacon.
Night of the Juggler - it’s basically one long chase scene where an New York ex-cop (played by James Brolin) goes after the guy who kidnapped his daughter, and basically wrecks half the city in the process. It’s a great movie without a dull moment, but it makes New York of the 1970s look like the seediest place on earth with the worst people in it.
First Blood would have to be on any list about movies that feature revenge or retribution by a wronged man.
I’ll add one more:
“Vanishing Point” (Sefaris [sp?] 1971 [?]) – kind of an odd choice, but the whole movie is about revenge against oneself or one society.
More conventional revenge choice: Burt Reynolds in “White Lightning.” A whole slew of Hong Kong action movies, maybe “King Boxer,” but any one of them will fit the bill pretty nearly.
Absolutely throw in “Death Proof” (Tarantino, 2007[?])
I’ll add One-Eyed Jacks to the list (directed by Brando – great movie too).
I agree with SteveG1 that Kill Bill most fits the unstoppable sort of revenge film.
Yeah, I kind of agree, but the Truffaut picture with Jeanne Moreau “The Bride Wore Black” is also unstoppable, and, excuse the language, for me, Moreau was a better piece of tail than Thurman, so it has to win. Sorry, ladies, it’s just my gender speaking through me.
My addition to this list is a film I liked more than I thought I would: Lucky Number Slevin
No. You are completely wrong. Go back and watch the end of this movie again, and you’ll see that, in fact, it’s a movie about stoppable revenge.
That’s the whole horrifying thing about the movie, ffs.
The bad guy, the asshole who was fucking his own sister and caused her to take her own life, out-planned and out-thought our protagonist, setting him up so that his attempt at revenge is meaningless, and he is then forced to endure the rest of his days in an even more fucked up situation than the guy he sought revenge on.
I love that hallway hammer scrolling fight scene, but this is a hard movie to watch more than once.
Shit, you’re right.
The Crow.
Hang Em High.