What are some of the best revenge scenes of all time?

In John Wick 1 when he walks up to Iosef and executes him before he can try to reason. John saw his moment and took it

Office Space. Printer.

The finale of Unforgiven What makes it great is the pay off to the slow burn of setting up how much of a monster Munny can be, all the while throughout the movie he looks so ineffectual. When he takes that sip of whiskey you know shit just got real. Inigo and Count Rugen in Princess Bride too

Sicario, dinner table

When Liam Neeson’s Rob Roy cuts Tim Roth’s Archibald Cunningham damn near in half in the finale duel after all the shit he did to Rob’s family and clan. Tim Roth played an amazing villain in that movie.

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

End of 28 days later

Check out The Vengeance Trilogy by Park Chan-wook, consisting of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), and Lady Vengeance (2005); “while not narratively connected, the films are thematically linked by their exploration of revenge, ethics, violence, and salvation, each featuring different characters and stories that delve into the dark and complex consequences of vengeance.” Some of those final scenes are pretty gnarly

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

"I like the way you die, boy."

Ok my friend, its off to the next life for you. I guarantee you won't be lonely. - John W. Creasy Man on Fire (2004)

Michael in The Godfather is pure vengeance. Killing Sollozzo and McClusky for the attempted hit on his father. Then taking revenge on the other familes for killing Sonny, and his Sicilian wife. And finally killing his brother in law Carlo for betraying the family. From the golden boy to a vengeful mob boss.

"They didn't have a name. It was taken from them by pig farmers and tailors." Honestly as an adult I'm mostly over superhero movies but the X-Men franchise still just has some absolute bangers.

Cartman’s revenge on Scott Tenorman. Shit was twisted.

"HELLO! MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA! YOU KILLED ME FATHER! PREPARE TO DIE! Offer me money." "Yes." "Power, too. Promise me that." "All that I have and more. Please..." "Offer me anything I ask for." "Anything you want." "I want my father back, you son of a b****!"

John Wick killing Santino in the second movie. The suddenness of the moment and John’s tenacity to kill him on the spot felt oddly satisfying.

How did I escape? with difficulty. How did I plan this moment? with pleasure.

How on Earth has nobody mentioned Sleepers yet???

Pretty Woman

Ending of wind river. Incredibly satisfying

“From Mathilda”

Once upon a time in the west is my favourite. I love the harmonica piece being played by Bronson all the way through, and then the link to his revenge mission lodged it into my brain

The obvious answer to this question (and many other r/movies question threads) is Shawshank Redemption.

Kill Bill

Snatch, when Mickey gets his revenge against Bricktop for killing his ma.

Unforgiven.

One of my favorite is in a Bruce Willis movie no one remembers called [Lucky Number Slevin - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Number_Slevin) I think it is on Tubi. Some problems with pacing but once everything comes together and once you realize how long it took to set everything up two decades its really satisfying.

The forced cannibalism at gunpoint at the end of The Cook The Theif His Wife and Her Lover. >"Try the c***, Albert. It's a delicacy. >And you know where it's been." At this point Albert has murdered people, physically and sexually abused people and been an all out prick for the whole film.

Carrie

I Saw The Devil (Korean) The whole movie is just one extended gnarly revenge trip.. Unforgettable stuff.

an obscure film. It was called Bullets, Blood, and a fistful of cash. It was an insane over top and far under the budget action film. About a dumpster baby raised to rob banks and takes the fall for a botched job. Then after he does his time he sets out to kill the men who set him up. In the final scene, the main character who is a bull of a man, Thom Doty, is shot to pieces but still gurgling blood and is barely alive. Then the crime boss who he was trying to kill walks into the room as Doty lays dying and keeps trying to talk but his mouth is full of blood and the main bad guy moves closer to him to try and hear what he is saying. Well what he failed to notice is that Doty arm had been broken by himself on purpose with a hammer and he had a compound fracture and with his sharp bone protruding out of his forearm, he stabs said bad guy in the jugular killing him and finally getting his revenege and then he is immeadiately shot in the head giving him peace and ending the film. It was cool.

Creasy severing up “cold” meals!

I know it’s obvious but The Bride finally killing Bill after two whole movies of build-up is still an all‑timer. That Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique is pure cinema.

The one that sticks out the most to me is: Girl with the dragon tattoo That whole part of the story is so devastating to Lisbeth and to watch her get retribution against her abuser the way she did was just downright justice. Jarring and shocking to say the least but I’m not gonna lie that POS deserved it!

2 scenes in Tombstone when Wyap and Curly Bill face off in the River and when Doc faces off with Johnny Ringo instead of Wyatt.

Mad Max

Dead Man’s Shoes. All of it. “God will forgive them. He’ll forgive them and allow them into heaven. I can’t live with that.”

"You're fucked."- Michael Clayton A fixer is targeted by a shady agriculture company via car bomb. He survives the attempt and then gets the recently promoted spokesperson/high executive to admit to a 10 million dollar bribe on tape to keep the damning evidence of their shadiness from the hands of the public. "I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you buy!" "I'm Shiva the god of death." Brilliant movie with a legendary final scene.

The last third of The Count of Monte Cristo. Also, the opening scene of Braveheart

Opening the purple box in Oldboy

There’s an old Japanese movie called Lady Snowblood, which heavily influenced Kill Bill. Pretty much that whole movie. Super stylistic.

Point Blank with Lee Marvin is a fave

Lock stock and 2 smoking barrels smacking the dudes head with the car door

The end of Enough. 

Old Boy (entire film, original Korean version) Count of Monte Cristo (entire film)

I can't believe no one has said the ending of last of the Mohicans yet. That forward roll, the look of disgust, the final coup de grace. Brilliant.

>If you're in there, I'd like you to know that I agree with every word you said. We are the future but unfortunately... you killed my mother. Magneto killing Shaw by pushing the coin through his head, in X-Men: First Class. Another good one from that film is the earlier bar scene in Argentina.

The Count of Monte Cristo Inglourious Basterds

Last wish? Uh ok.. I wish. You had. More time. BOOM!

All of John Wick

Kill Bill Vol 2 "That's right. I killed your master. And now I'm gonna kill you too, with your own sword, which in the very near future, will become my sword." "B****, you don't have a future."

The Bride pulls out Elle’s other eye, Kill Bill Vol 2. 

gone girl is up there for me bc that whole payoff feels so deeply unwell and weirdly satisfying at the same time

Rawls Beat down at the end of punisher S1

Kill Bill. The five point palm exploding heart technique.

The scene where Joffrey in Game of Thrones writhes in agony after ingesting the poison. That was a particularly enjoyable scene watching that little wretch get his comeuppance.

Mad Max: The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack n through it with this [drops hacksaw]. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes.

there are many in Mel Gibson movies.

The Prestige. From, ‘What knot did you tie?’, to the masterpiece of revenge that is easy to miss, so watch closely.

48 Hrs The final standoff cold & calculated

Another revenge flick from the seventies is with the great Lee Van Cliff. Sabata and Death rides a Horse.

Irreversible

The Punisher (2004)

Blue Horseshoe loves Bluestar Airlines.

Braveheart. So many great vengeance scenes it that one.

“You work on commission, right? Big mistake. Huge.”

For me revenge is all about emotion, and no one does emotion as good as Korean movies. I saw the devil, A Bittersweet Life, Oldboy. All S tier stuff

Probably a little out there answer but the Crocodile and Captain Hook in Hook. The movie establishes that Hook had PTSD with clocks from is experience with the Croc chasing him in the past to eat him. Seeing it “dead” and strung up as a set piece with giant clock in its mouth wasn’t necessarily setting up its Act 3 revenge, but IDK there was something unworldy watching it be released, “come alive” and then drop at a 90 degree angle to swallow Hook whole. I mean if you’re familiar with the Peter Pan story, you’re aware of Pan feeding the Croc Hook’s hand and then the Croc wanting to eat the rest of Hook. But in Hook it’s shown that he eventually bested the Croc “killed it, kept it as a trophy and wasn’t running from it anymore…only for it to still get him in the end.

King of New York’s “hey you”

Ex Machina ending scene.

Stand by Me When Gordy pulls the gun on the bullies. It’s the best way that could have played out, especially from a kids perspective.

I’m gonna go medieval on your ass.

Hills Have Eyes, Doug grows some kahunas mid fight

Promising Young Woman, at the end you realize just how calculated everything she did was.

I love Denzel Washington as Robert McCall in The Equalizers. I think my favorite line might be in the second film: "People do bad things. If you're lucky, you get a chance to set it right, but most of the time it goes unpunished. This ain't one of them times. The mistake you made was you killed my friend. So, I'm gonna kill each and every one of you, and the only disappointment in it for me is that I only get to do it once." It was just a no-nonsense delivery, cold-blooded vengeance.

Taken: when he tells the trafficker he told him he would see him again.  The Dogs of War: when Walken goes back & topples the government. The woman who sold him out just looks at him.  The Princess Bride: "you killed my father. Prepare to Die!". Revenge: The final fight with Richard Pan's Labyrinth: "Tell my son-" "He won't even know your name".  Robocop: the whole 2nd half of the movie.

I Spit on Your Grave 2010 is the one for me

Blue Ruin

“You killed my son.” Sound of screams and then a grenade going off. “Both of them.”

True Romance when Patricia Arquettes character kills Gandolfini’s character.

Payback. Dumbass answers the phone.

Short circuit 2 when Johnny 5 finally gets Oscar and his goons

The chase scene in the last of the mohicans

"Did you really think I'd make it that easy?" The Count of Monte Cristo

Hostel

Death Wish II: (as he notices the rapist's cross necklace): "Do you believe in Jesus? You're gonna meet him."

Mad Max to Johnny the boy after handcuffing him to the car on fire and handing him a hacksaw. "The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go."

The Last Castle! First of all, GREAT movie! And secondly, love that ending!

The Thomas Jane Punisher movie. Destroys his drug empire, tricks him into killing his wife and best friend, kills his other son, then has him dragged behind a car while a bunch of other cars explode and form the Punisher symbol

Fist Fight(2017)- [The talent show scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEK0aVTEKus)

Law abiding citizen.

Tarantino is weirdly fixated on revenge movies. Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood all contain scenes of extreme vengeance.

Ed Harris in Needful Things

Maybe not “of all time”, but I liked spider-man. “I missed the part where that’s my problem.”

High Plains Drifter

John Wick (2014) – “People keep asking if I'm back…”

Trinity Matrix “dodge this”

The one in "Inglourious Basterds".

The ending of "Inglourious Basterds" with the movie theater scene is super satisfying, especially if you're into over-the-top payback. Also, "John Wick" pretty much defines revenge done stylishly.

I reckon I aim to kill you wid it.

Death proof

The entire movie Payback.

Blue Ruin

Very niche film but The Truth Beneath I’ll also add The Bad Batch for sort of revenge but also kind of the opposite of a revenge story? Having to let go of revenge to survive

William Wallace killing the men who captured and killed Murron in Braveheart.