Tag: Revenge (Page 2)

Robert Redford's character stands alone in a snow-covered Rocky Mountain landscape, wearing period clothing and holding a

1970s

Jeremiah Johnson (1972) Review

Jeremiah Johnson (1972) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man goes into the mountains to be alone and the film spends two hours on the practical difficulty of that. Almost no dialogue, real winter, and a…

Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as Mickey and Mallory Knox in a scene from the 1994 film. TITLE: Natural Born Killers

1990s

Natural Born Killers (1994) Review

Natural Born Killers (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Oliver Stone made a satire about media appetite for violence that is itself a two-hour delivery system for violence. Tarantino wrote the story, disowned it, and asked…

Lee Marvin in a dark suit stands in a stark modernist interior with geometric shadows across the walls, his face composed

1960s

Point Blank (1967) Review

Point Blank (1967) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lee Marvin threw the script in the bin, handed his script and casting approval to a British director who had never worked in Hollywood, and the result is…

Patrick Swayze in a bar setting, wearing casual clothes, with a serious expression while standing near other people. TITLE

1980s

Road House (1989) Review

Road House (1989) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A philosophy graduate is hired to clean up a Missouri bar and ends up fighting a monster truck. It took five Razzie nominations, underperformed in cinemas, and became…

Christoph Waltz as SS officer Hans Landa sits at a wooden table in a farmhouse kitchen, holding a glass of milk during the

1940s

Inglourious Basterds (2009) Review

Inglourious Basterds (2009) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Tarantino wrote it in 1998, could not solve the ending, made Kill Bill instead, and came back a decade later. The opening scene is a twenty-five minute conversation…

Keanu Reeves as John Wick in a dark suit, holding a gun in a combat stance during an action sequence.

2010s

John Wick (2014) Review

John Wick (2014) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two stuntmen directed it for twenty million dollars, put the camera far enough back to see the whole body, and built an entire criminal economy out of about…

Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in a black coat and hat, standing in the dusty streets of Tombstone, Arizona during the 1880s.

1990s

Tombstone (1993) Review

Tombstone (1993) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The credited writer was fired a month into shooting, the credited director may not have directed it, and the result is the most quotable Western ever made. Val Kilmer…

1960s

Sword of the Beast (1965)

Hideo Gosha's 1965 second film. Fugitive samurai on the run.

1970s

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)

Kenji Misumi's 1972 first Lone Wolf film. The film depicts disgraced shogunate executioner Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro wandering Edo-period Japan after the Yagyu clan has destroyed Itto's wife and falsely accused him of treason.

2010s

I Am Wrath (2016)

The film depicts Stanley Hill, a Columbus Ohio engineer whose wife is murdered after they witness a corrupt official. The work operates as standard late-career Cage action revenge thriller.