# Unstoppable Revenge Films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944 "2011-01-09T02:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/1 "2011-01-09T02:32:41Z")
I love movies about unstoppable people out for revenge: The Limey and Taken come immediately to mind. Any other suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/2 "2011-01-09T02:35:10Z")
[Payback.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120784/) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/3 "2011-01-09T02:37:56Z")
_The Count of Monte Cristo_ is a good one. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/4 "2011-01-09T02:43:32Z")
Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Face/Off, Oldboy, The Glass House. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/5 "2011-01-09T02:53:03Z")
Commando ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/6 "2011-01-09T02:53:26Z")
Blood Sister: One Tough Nun ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/7 "2011-01-09T02:53:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/8 "2011-01-09T03:03:27Z")
“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! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/9 "2011-01-09T03:04:24Z")
[Law Abiding Citizen](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/combined) was an odd variant. ---
**Author:** ![Capitaine\_Zombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@Capitaine\_Zombie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capitaine_Zombie)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/10 "2011-01-09T03:08:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/11 "2011-01-09T03:22:56Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/12 "2011-01-09T03:28:39Z")
First Blood would have to be on any list about movies that feature revenge or retribution by a wronged man. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/13 "2011-01-09T03:39:18Z")
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[?]) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/14 "2011-01-09T03:57:56Z")
Relevant video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOglM0\_iFd8&feature=player\_embedded#!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOglM0_iFd8&feature=player_embedded#!) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/15 "2011-01-09T04:21:57Z")
[Oldboy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRBwvIX7Sao). ---
**Author:** ![iamnotbatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@iamnotbatman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamnotbatman)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/16 "2011-01-09T04:55:07Z")
I’ll add _[One-Eyed Jacks](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055257/)_ to the list (directed by Brando – great movie too). I agree with **SteveG1** that _Kill Bill_ most fits the unstoppable sort of revenge film. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/17 "2011-01-09T05:00:59Z")
> [@iamnotbatman](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/18 "2011-01-09T05:07:27Z")
My addition to this list is a film I liked more than I thought I would: **Lucky Number Slevin** > [@Kozmik](#): > > Oldboy > [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > [Oldboy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRBwvIX7Sao). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/19 "2011-01-09T05:31:56Z")
Shit, you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unstoppable-revenge-films/566944/20 "2011-01-09T05:42:32Z")
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