Movie recs with this particular sort of ending:
March 21, 2017 9:25 AM Subscribe
I'm interested in watching movies, from any era, where the egregiously bad bad guys are hunted down and picked off one by one. Bonus points if the movie is available on Netflix. Thanks all.
it will help my mental health right now
The Bride Wore Black--Netflix DVD but not streaming.
posted by crush-onastick at 9:39 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by crush-onastick at 9:39 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
The Count of Monte Cristo (Jim Caviezel)
posted by Sassyfras at 9:40 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by Sassyfras at 9:40 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
Point Blank (1967)
Kill Bill
posted by paper chromatographologist at 9:44 AM on March 21, 2017 [10 favorites]
Kill Bill
posted by paper chromatographologist at 9:44 AM on March 21, 2017 [10 favorites]
"Egregiously bad bad guys" is relative in a mob movie (in this case, the enemies of the protagonist, also a Mafia Don, but with whom the reader is arguably meant to sympathize with), but the baptism montage in The Godfather is pretty gripping.
posted by Pax at 9:45 AM on March 21, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by Pax at 9:45 AM on March 21, 2017 [3 favorites]
I feel like Boondock Saints would fit the bill.
posted by SeedStitch at 9:46 AM on March 21, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by SeedStitch at 9:46 AM on March 21, 2017 [3 favorites]
I think The Limey fits, but the kill count is low.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 9:48 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by paper chromatographologist at 9:48 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. It's so, so soothing and the whole movie is just Denzel slowly pushing back his sleeves, shaking his head ruefully, and then expertly dispatching ALL the bad guys (who are really bad and also Russian). We've watched it three times since the election.
posted by stellaluna at 9:50 AM on March 21, 2017 [13 favorites]
posted by stellaluna at 9:50 AM on March 21, 2017 [13 favorites]
Tombstone
posted by Medieval Maven at 9:50 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Medieval Maven at 9:50 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
Taken: "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you."
posted by coldbabyshrimp at 9:52 AM on March 21, 2017 [12 favorites]
posted by coldbabyshrimp at 9:52 AM on March 21, 2017 [12 favorites]
Get Out
posted by monologish at 9:58 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by monologish at 9:58 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
Death Wish obvs
posted by the webmistress at 10:04 AM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by the webmistress at 10:04 AM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
Payback
The Outlaw Josie Wales, or almost any Clint Eastwood Western
Munich
posted by cardboard at 10:08 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
The Outlaw Josie Wales, or almost any Clint Eastwood Western
Munich
posted by cardboard at 10:08 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
Commando, which includes a bunch of choice Ahnuld one-liners.
posted by LionIndex at 10:10 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
posted by LionIndex at 10:10 AM on March 21, 2017 [7 favorites]
It's been a while, but I think Man on Fire is pretty much what you describe.
posted by cnc at 10:14 AM on March 21, 2017 [6 favorites]
posted by cnc at 10:14 AM on March 21, 2017 [6 favorites]
Django Unchained?
posted by Hermione Granger at 10:15 AM on March 21, 2017 [9 favorites]
posted by Hermione Granger at 10:15 AM on March 21, 2017 [9 favorites]
You might try the show Into the Badlands... it has some of the most creative killing of bad guys I've seen in a while. Sort of a 70s vibe, also. Reviews seem pretty mixed, but I'm not really sure why, I'm really enjoying it. Season 1 is on Netflix.
posted by Huck500 at 10:22 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by Huck500 at 10:22 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
One of my favorite movies, "The Crow" with Brandon Lee!
posted by Aquifer at 10:30 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Aquifer at 10:30 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
It's tough to watch, but the Shane Meadows movie Dead Man's Shoes fits your description.
posted by rd45 at 10:33 AM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by rd45 at 10:33 AM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
Pale Rider with Clint Eastwood.
posted by chocolatetiara at 10:40 AM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by chocolatetiara at 10:40 AM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
I'm just here to second Boondock Saints
posted by brainmouse at 10:54 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by brainmouse at 10:54 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
I LOVE A GOOD REVENGE MOVIE. I'll try not to rehash the great ones that have already been suggested, but here are some of my other faves:
Aquifer beat me to it, but I had to mention it--The Crow is probably my favorite revenge movie, and I believe it's on Netflix!
I also really love Kiss of the Dragon, but I don't think it's streaming anywhere, at least that I've seen. This is hands down my favorite Jet Li vehicle. And it's produced by Luc Besson, my favorite eurotrash director!
Speaking of Luc Besson: Leon: The Professional remains one of my favorite movies, despite the ultra-creepy Lolita vibe that only gets creepier the older I get. Try to avoid the Director's Cut if you really just cannot handle the creepdom.
I Spit on Your Grave and Last House on the Left (the originals, not the remakes) are both pretty hard to watch with all the sexual violence-sploitation, but oh man, if you ever wanted to see rapists get glorious comeuppance, these are the movies for you.
This list is pretty Tarantino-heavy already, but the Shoshanna revenge subplot in Inglourious Basterds is SO SO GOOD. Bonus: Nazis are the ULTIMATE movie bad guys!
I'm hesitant to say too much about the HIGHLY EXCELLENT movie You're Next if you haven't already seen it, because half the fun of watching it is letting your expectations about what is going to happen be expertly subverted. But if seeing bad dudes get splattered is your thing, this movie's got lots of that.
Also, I haven't seen it, but I've heard nothing but great, gory things about Oldboy, and that movie would definitely fit the bill here. Ditto Lady Vengeance.
Enjoy!
posted by helloimjennsco at 11:36 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
Aquifer beat me to it, but I had to mention it--The Crow is probably my favorite revenge movie, and I believe it's on Netflix!
I also really love Kiss of the Dragon, but I don't think it's streaming anywhere, at least that I've seen. This is hands down my favorite Jet Li vehicle. And it's produced by Luc Besson, my favorite eurotrash director!
Speaking of Luc Besson: Leon: The Professional remains one of my favorite movies, despite the ultra-creepy Lolita vibe that only gets creepier the older I get. Try to avoid the Director's Cut if you really just cannot handle the creepdom.
I Spit on Your Grave and Last House on the Left (the originals, not the remakes) are both pretty hard to watch with all the sexual violence-sploitation, but oh man, if you ever wanted to see rapists get glorious comeuppance, these are the movies for you.
This list is pretty Tarantino-heavy already, but the Shoshanna revenge subplot in Inglourious Basterds is SO SO GOOD. Bonus: Nazis are the ULTIMATE movie bad guys!
I'm hesitant to say too much about the HIGHLY EXCELLENT movie You're Next if you haven't already seen it, because half the fun of watching it is letting your expectations about what is going to happen be expertly subverted. But if seeing bad dudes get splattered is your thing, this movie's got lots of that.
Also, I haven't seen it, but I've heard nothing but great, gory things about Oldboy, and that movie would definitely fit the bill here. Ditto Lady Vengeance.
Enjoy!
posted by helloimjennsco at 11:36 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
Old Goodie: Chato's Land.
In addition to the comprehensive bad-guy kill off, you get to see Charles Bronsen's bare legs back in the day when he could crack walnuts between his ankles.
This one gets bonus points for not having a gratuitous car chase scene.
posted by mule98J at 11:53 AM on March 21, 2017
In addition to the comprehensive bad-guy kill off, you get to see Charles Bronsen's bare legs back in the day when he could crack walnuts between his ankles.
This one gets bonus points for not having a gratuitous car chase scene.
posted by mule98J at 11:53 AM on March 21, 2017
Not just the ending, it's most of the movie: In Order of Disappearance. Says so right there in the title.
posted by Homer42 at 11:54 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Homer42 at 11:54 AM on March 21, 2017 [4 favorites]
Quigley Down Under has extremely bad bad guys who get picked off most satisfyingly.
posted by bricoleur at 11:57 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by bricoleur at 11:57 AM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
In Order of Disappearance is exactly what you're looking for.
posted by sacrifix at 12:19 PM on March 21, 2017
posted by sacrifix at 12:19 PM on March 21, 2017
Unfortunately, this storytelling model is rife with sexual violence and "Women in Refrigerators" type scenarios, but it has its pleasures for sure.
I was expecting to see the original Mad Max already mentioned, it's basically this. Max is super mad.
Road to Perdition is an excellent adaptation of one of my all-time favorite comics, which itself is based on Lone Wolf and Cub, a classic samurai epic that also fits this mold.
Death Wish is a classic of the form as well, though it's aged about as well as Reefer Madness. Which is to say it'd be hilarious in its excess if there wasn't a large number of people who still take it to heart.
posted by Phobos the Space Potato at 12:39 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
I was expecting to see the original Mad Max already mentioned, it's basically this. Max is super mad.
Road to Perdition is an excellent adaptation of one of my all-time favorite comics, which itself is based on Lone Wolf and Cub, a classic samurai epic that also fits this mold.
Death Wish is a classic of the form as well, though it's aged about as well as Reefer Madness. Which is to say it'd be hilarious in its excess if there wasn't a large number of people who still take it to heart.
posted by Phobos the Space Potato at 12:39 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
Guessing it is not on Netflix, and it's more in the black comedy vein, but "The Girl Most Likely To..." fits the criteria (egregious is in the eye of the beholder).
posted by mefireader at 12:58 PM on March 21, 2017
posted by mefireader at 12:58 PM on March 21, 2017
Payback mentioned above is good, but here's the thing - the directors cut is unrelievedly grim, the standard cut has some bits of amusing. Me, I prefer the latter. It is in any event better than is prior incarnation, Point Blank, but neither are quite as good as the book on which it is based.
On the off chance you haven't seen it, Murder on the Orient Express (Finney version, not Suchet) is a sort of inversion of your requirements. Kenneth Branagh I see is coming out with yet another this year.
Kind Heart and Coronets never gets old, though the victims are perhaps not egregious.
posted by BWA at 3:50 PM on March 21, 2017
On the off chance you haven't seen it, Murder on the Orient Express (Finney version, not Suchet) is a sort of inversion of your requirements. Kenneth Branagh I see is coming out with yet another this year.
Kind Heart and Coronets never gets old, though the victims are perhaps not egregious.
posted by BWA at 3:50 PM on March 21, 2017
I recently watched "The Salvation" on Netflix. I'm not sure I'd recommend it under any other circumstances. Although it's a well-enough made movie, the bad guys were REALLY BAD, and lots of bad things kept happening to the good guys.
To avoid spoilers, I won't say anything else about it except that it meets the criteria laid out in your questions.
But to reiterate: Bad guys very bad.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:14 PM on March 21, 2017
To avoid spoilers, I won't say anything else about it except that it meets the criteria laid out in your questions.
But to reiterate: Bad guys very bad.
posted by mudpuppie at 4:14 PM on March 21, 2017
The Ladykillers fits if the bad guys don't actually have to be hunted down.
posted by sapere aude at 4:15 PM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by sapere aude at 4:15 PM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
There are any number of Japanese films of the story of the 47 Ronin, always a satisfying story with the advantage of being true*. I watched a very stylized modern film recently with a similar theme, 13 Assassins, but it was a great deal too cold-blooded and brutal for me. But there are Japanese versions of 47 Ronin from the 30's, the 40s, the 50's etc and so on and so on.
There's also a Japanese film called An Actor's Revenge (1962) that fits your criteria. Oddball film with an interesting history.
From Senses of Cinema:
Originally adapted into a three-part serial film by Teinosuke Kinugasa in 1935-36 (who himself had a career as a kabuki onnagata – a stage actor of female roles – before becoming a director) and featuring the original lead from the Kinugasa adaptation, veteran actor Kazuo Hasegawa for a performance that would mark his 300th film appearance, An Actor’s Revenge tells the story of Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa), a renowned 19th century, Tokugawa-era onnagata consumed with one obsession throughout his entire life: to avenge his parents’ death.
* Image search of their graves.
posted by glasseyes at 5:11 PM on March 21, 2017
There's also a Japanese film called An Actor's Revenge (1962) that fits your criteria. Oddball film with an interesting history.
From Senses of Cinema:
Originally adapted into a three-part serial film by Teinosuke Kinugasa in 1935-36 (who himself had a career as a kabuki onnagata – a stage actor of female roles – before becoming a director) and featuring the original lead from the Kinugasa adaptation, veteran actor Kazuo Hasegawa for a performance that would mark his 300th film appearance, An Actor’s Revenge tells the story of Yukinojo Nakamura (Kazuo Hasegawa), a renowned 19th century, Tokugawa-era onnagata consumed with one obsession throughout his entire life: to avenge his parents’ death.
* Image search of their graves.
posted by glasseyes at 5:11 PM on March 21, 2017
Drive, with Ryan Gosling, classy and very well made (I didn't like it.)
Wild Card, with Jason Statham, cheesy and very enjoyable. The two films are not dissimilar - neon, cars, existentialism, really precise and evocative use of music/sound - but Drive takes itself ever so seriously.
posted by glasseyes at 5:26 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
Wild Card, with Jason Statham, cheesy and very enjoyable. The two films are not dissimilar - neon, cars, existentialism, really precise and evocative use of music/sound - but Drive takes itself ever so seriously.
posted by glasseyes at 5:26 PM on March 21, 2017 [2 favorites]
Not on Netflix, but Amazon has it streaming: Seven Men from Now, a Budd Boetticher western in which Randolph Scott hunts down, you guessed it, seven men.
posted by OolooKitty at 6:53 PM on March 21, 2017
posted by OolooKitty at 6:53 PM on March 21, 2017
Oh, and how could I forget Hanna, starring Saoirse Ronan as a teen assassin hunting down seriously evil people?
posted by OolooKitty at 6:58 PM on March 21, 2017 [3 favorites]
posted by OolooKitty at 6:58 PM on March 21, 2017 [3 favorites]
Inglorious Bastards, of course.
posted by Toddles at 9:07 PM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Toddles at 9:07 PM on March 21, 2017 [1 favorite]
maybe too dated for you - not me...The Odessa File features a journalist working with The Wiesenthal Institute and (i think) the Mossad to infiltrate the institutional refuges for Nazis in postwar Europe (like the Hamburg Police Department). The evil guy is Evil. There is a 'main" target, but collateral damage along the way. Plot unfolds in the 60s directly after the JFK assassination.
posted by j_curiouser at 11:27 PM on March 21, 2017
posted by j_curiouser at 11:27 PM on March 21, 2017
This almost seems too obvious, but John Wick is this 1000%. The bad guys are SO egregiously bad, it's so satisfying.
posted by thebots at 12:18 AM on March 22, 2017
posted by thebots at 12:18 AM on March 22, 2017
And it's late and I didn't read the first comment somehow but still, seriously, John Wick.
posted by thebots at 12:19 AM on March 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by thebots at 12:19 AM on March 22, 2017 [1 favorite]
DEFINITELY "Man on Fire." That movie was far, far better than I expected.
Payback.
John Wick.
The Crow.
posted by Thistledown at 4:18 AM on March 22, 2017
Payback.
John Wick.
The Crow.
posted by Thistledown at 4:18 AM on March 22, 2017
Lots of good recommendations here, so I'll just add another great Japanese vengeance film, Lady Snowblood, which was one of the inspirations for Kill Bill.
posted by Gelatin at 4:35 AM on March 22, 2017
posted by Gelatin at 4:35 AM on March 22, 2017
You have to wait a bit for the revenge-y part, but Snatch was fun
posted by JulesER at 6:14 AM on March 22, 2017
posted by JulesER at 6:14 AM on March 22, 2017
Response by poster: My weekend is set, thank you so much everyone!
posted by Klaxon Aoooogah at 8:30 AM on March 22, 2017
posted by Klaxon Aoooogah at 8:30 AM on March 22, 2017
You can also check out TVTropes' page Roaring Rampage of Revenge page for suggestions.
posted by Harald74 at 8:48 AM on March 22, 2017
posted by Harald74 at 8:48 AM on March 22, 2017
Heathers?
posted by SisterHavana at 12:17 PM on March 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by SisterHavana at 12:17 PM on March 23, 2017 [2 favorites]
Taken
Liam Neeson plows through an underground French prostitution ring to get his daughter back.
posted by jeenmal112 at 11:46 PM on March 24, 2017
Liam Neeson plows through an underground French prostitution ring to get his daughter back.
posted by jeenmal112 at 11:46 PM on March 24, 2017
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posted by dis_integration at 9:33 AM on March 21, 2017 [13 favorites]