Nine Highly Questionable Justifications For Revenge In Action Movies
If you kill Keanu Reeves' dog, he will destroy you and everyone you love.
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By the early 90s the excess of the last decade or so of action movies had led to a new breed of heroes – men who’d kill you at the drop of a hat simply for dropping their hat on the floor.
And when it came to insanely outsized revenge for minor slights, the man to beat – only not literally because if you beat him he’d kill you then dance on your grave – was The Last Boy Scout’s Joe Hallenbeck. Captured by thugs, the first thing he does is light up a cigarette, then when a thug punches him (knocking the cigarette from his mouth), he does it again, only with the warning “touch me again and I’ll kill ya”. Anyone want to guess how it turns out?