Rewengay films.

[Spaceghost]

I agree with Dead Man's Shoes and Taken but what about the Kill Bill films? And has anyone seen Lady Vengeance? I'm not a fan of the Death Wish movies. I never got into them as I found Micheal Winner a hopeless director who should have stuck to making Frankie Howerd vehicles.

I mentioned Lady Vengeance a couple of posts back. It's a beaut. Not sure about Kill Bill. I have a love hate relationship with Tarantino. For every cool scene, there's a cringe-worthy, annoying line of dialogue or a rip off- sorry, 'homage' -from another film or genre.

[Emperor]

Kill Bill
I Spit on Your Grave
Lady Snowblood
Ip Man
Martyrs
Machine Girl
Conan
RoboCop
The Prestige

If the vigilante/revenge angle works:

Punisher
Hobo with a Shotgun

This seems a decent list I stumbled across, even if I might quibble with some entries:

http://www.imdb.com/list/Bn3LLHiuIbg/

Actually this seems a shorter but more solid list:

http://www.imdb.com/list/ZTAPgqRNHqQ/

[vzzbux]

The string of  Charles Bronson films 'Deathwish'.
Cant get any more batshit crazy revenge than them.




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[Heath C Ackley]

I  spit on your grave - the original - was absolute shite.  I saw it a week before it was banned. It wasn't worth the fuss or the video rental fee. I also watched another video nasty revenge film soon after - Last House On The Left. Not one of Craven's best. I remember coming home to find that my Dad had watched it. He went ballistic; informing me if I ever brought such filth into the house again, he would throw it out with me following it!

[Richmond Clements]

And TAken is a bit racist surely?

No it's not- it's massively racist.

[Professor Bear]

I liked that about Taken because it's old-school action movie racism.  You know the kind of thing: all terrorists may be Arabs, but you're trusted to know that not all Arabs are terrorists in the same way that the most jingoistic of WW2 movies assumes you already know not all Germans are Nazis without having to cast a comedy German team member or something.

Crossing over with the Kung Fu Fighting thread, Showdown In Little Tokyo is an awesome no-budget martial arts rewengay flick [spoiler]("EYEEE KILT YO FADAH!")[/spoiler] that's impossible to take seriously, starting as it does with the premise of lumbering galoot Dolph Lundgren as a samurai poet police detective battling professional panto villain Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa who has a terrible habit of not only chopping people's heads off while in the process of bumming them, but filming himself doing this.  It also features at least three Batman 1966-style death traps and a bit during a gunfight where Dolph Lundgren picks up a car and throws it at someone - combined with the short length (only 70-odd minutes, including credits sequences at the start and end), I would not be surprised if the guy who directed it came out and said that it only got made because one night everyone was sitting around a table drunk having a few laughs and someone suggested they all go out to the parking lot and make a film right now.  There's beheadings, people exploding, one guy who breaks his own neck, god knows how many shootings and stabbings, and none of it ever registers as anything other than panto-level, it is just daft, camp nonsense.

[Tiplodocus]

Does the rather marvellous MEMENTO count?

[Mudcrab]

Got one on the way from Lovefilm, Columbiana (A woman becomes a professional killer in order to seek revenge against the ruthless gangster who murdered her parents). Will let you know if it's up to much.

Interesting list from Emperor's post. Didn't really consider Desperado, but I guess that counts in a vendetta way. Also Shogun Assassin (or Lone Wolf and Cub films preferably) most definitely.

Cheers for the list, I need to see Hobo with a Shotgun.

[radiator]

Leon.

[Emperor]

Interesting list from Emperor's post. Didn't really consider Desperado, but I guess that counts in a vendetta way. Also Shogun Assassin (or Lone Wolf and Cub films preferably) most definitely.

Yeah about a third of samurai films count (and a higher percentage of the 70s and 80s more exploitationy ones) and half of all westerns

Crossing over with the Kung Fu Fighting thread, Showdown In Little Tokyo is an awesome no-budget martial arts rewengay flick [spoiler]("EYEEE KILT YO FADAH!")[/spoiler] that's impossible to take seriously, starting as it does with the premise of lumbering galoot Dolph Lundgren as a samurai poet police detective battling professional panto villain Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa who has a terrible habit of not only chopping people's heads off while in the process of bumming them, but filming himself doing this.  It also features at least three Batman 1966-style death traps and a bit during a gunfight where Dolph Lundgren picks up a car and throws it at someone - combined with the short length (only 70-odd minutes, including credits sequences at the start and end), I would not be surprised if the guy who directed it came out and said that it only got made because one night everyone was sitting around a table drunk having a few laughs and someone suggested they all go out to the parking lot and make a film right now.  There's beheadings, people exploding, one guy who breaks his own neck, god knows how many shootings and stabbings, and none of it ever registers as anything other than panto-level, it is just daft, camp nonsense.

Consider this on the watchlist.

[Professor Bear]

Then you'll want to check out Showdown co-headliner Brandon Lee's first foray into western chop-sockies  Rapid Fire.  It's no classic, but there's a ton of good scraps and the odd decent stunt, as well as some in-fight nods to Jackie Chan and Lee Sr.

Again with Brandon Lee, The Crow is a lovely-looking zombie rewengay flick, but then it's directed by the much under-rated Alex Proyas.  If you don't know the plot already: a musician is returned to life one year after his own murder to seek rewengay through the meddling of a supernatural crow who apparently does this sort of thing a lot.  There's some minor flickers of promise from the late Lee in his final role, but nothing terribly meaty character-wise to definatively say he'd have gone on to better things, as evidenced by the latter career of Mark Dacoscos, a contemporary of Lee with a similar career path of low-budget actioners and good-boy looks who does pretty much naff all these days bar the odd guest turn in the shrinking number of action tv shows coming out of the US these days.  Anyway: two generations back, Brandon Lee's  Crow was what Heath Ledger's Joker is today, and the original film is well worth a look if you haven't seen it already.

[JamesC]

I have fond memories of playing 'spot the Crow' on halloween in the late 90's. Lots of goth types who wanted to stand in the corner looking all mysterious would put black electrical tape around their hands and use their mum's eyeliner to get the desired effect.
There are few things as tragic as seeing a fat boy dressed as The Crow.

[Professor Bear]

Never go to a Gerard Way book signing.

[Zarjazzer]

Rancho Notorious 1952, hate, murder and rewenge.

[Mudcrab]

Got one on the way from Lovefilm, Columbiana (A woman becomes a professional killer in order to seek revenge against the ruthless gangster who murdered her parents). Will let you know if it's up to much.

Yep, I enjoyed it. Written/produced by Luc Besson so fairly styish in the way that his films are. The fact that the main character was played by Zoe Saldana helped tremendously too  Some great fight scenes and cool sneaky assassination stuff.

By coincidence I'm watching Line of Duty on the BBC at the moment (cop drama thing) and the Detective under investigation in that plays the main FBI guy in Columbiana (with an accent). Also fairly confused over the title, which isn't her name in the film.