# What are your favorite vigilante/revenge movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680 "2009-06-23T03:02:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/21 "2009-06-23T15:24:36Z")
I Love the line from Death Wish 2. Bronson: upon seeing a cross around the neck of a hood, “do you believe in Jesus?” Hood: “Yes I do” Bronson: “Well, your going to meet him.” ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/22 "2009-06-23T15:28:15Z")
Freeway. (Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon) Sort of a violent, sharp retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, if Red was a semi-illiterate prostitute’s daughter and the wolf was a serial killer. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/23 "2009-06-23T17:29:53Z")
Revenge Kevin Costner ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/24 "2009-06-23T18:24:12Z")
\*\*\*[Enough\*\*\*,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278435/)with Jennifer Lopez. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/25 "2009-06-23T20:27:40Z")
_Boondock Saints_. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/26 "2009-06-23T20:31:42Z")
> [@vandal](#): > > Punisher: War Zone No no, the first Punisher was better. Nothing says revenge like Dolph Lundgren, sitting naked in a sewer with a voiceover talking about how God hadn’t answered his question so he’ll still keep punishing the guilty. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/27 "2009-06-23T20:40:08Z")
**Trading Places** is a good one if you prefer comedy to shoot 'em ups.\*\* The Shawshank Redemption\*\* is also most triumphant. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/28 "2009-06-23T20:53:00Z")
[**The Punisher**](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/) (2004). It’s not _good_, but it’s certainly entertaining. I have no revenge movies to recommend, unless someone has the good sense to make movies out of Vacchs’s _Burke_ novels. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/29 "2009-06-23T20:56:55Z")
> [@ExTank](#): > > _Boondock Saints_. Good call on that one. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/30 "2009-06-23T21:04:52Z")
Mad Max had some nice revenge qualities. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/31 "2009-06-23T22:01:22Z")
I haven’t seen Hard Candy, but I’ve heard good things. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/32 "2009-06-23T23:29:47Z")
I did like Slevin and Kill Bill and Count of Monte Cristo. I guess Ocean’s Eleven sort of counts. I tend to prefer the clever machinations type of revenge film over the angsty violent ones. I think there are some key ones of this time I am failing to remember at the moment. Revenge is definitely a dish best served cold. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680/33 "2009-06-23T23:34:10Z")
Just finished Man On Fire. WOW! That’s pretty powerful. Thanks for the suggestion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-vigilante-revenge-movies/500680.md?page=1)