Sentences with phrase «vigilante justice»

It stars Melanie Lynskey as a frustrated suburbanite who hires her creep of a neighbor (Elijah Wood) to help her hunt for vigilante justice after her home is burgled.

Blacks have long been the victims of vigilante justice in America.

Blair's premise is simple — Ruth (Melanie Lynskey, cast to perfection), a quiet loner, comes home to find her house robbed, and when the police won't help, she seeks vigilante justice with equally socially inept neighbor, Tony (Elijah Wood)-- but his ever - increasingly sprawling plot is fueled by a myopic moral perspective rendered in black and white.

Tortured by his past, he exacts vigilante justice on those who wreak havoc on his community.

Denzel Washington is back as the former CIA black ops agent delivering vigilante justice for those in need.

I'm talking about loan modification — not vigilante justice against your bank.

In the movie, a New York City architect exacts vigilante justice after a man murders his wife and sexually assaults his daughter.

An examination of whether vigilante justice - no matter how well - intentioned at the start - is doomed, ultimately, to become just another example of would - be good guys falling prey to the lure of egotism and / or big money.

He seeks vigilante justice against Cohen and his cohorts, destroying his establishments and tracking down criminals by himself without any regard to protocol.

Some citizens fear the Bat; others contend that vigilante justice only awaits those most deserving.

Taking matters into his own hands, he pursues vigilante justice on the streets, hunting down those who robbed him of a future.

But, of course, that's not how it plays; the film endorses vigilante justice with every thrust of Willis» back - in - black swagger.

Three war veterans dealing with PTSD indulge in vigilante justice when a serial killer strikes in their rural community.

Moving at a relentless, compelling pace, «Vengeance: A Love Story» reveals how an act of unbelievable and raw brutality twists the lives of three generations of women, and sets Detective Dromoor on his own course of police vigilante justice.

Billed as the first Iranian vampire Western, writer - director Armipour's film certainly borrows heavily from the tropes of that genre, featuring as it does a lone stranger dolling out bloody vigilante justice to those deemed deserving.

Perched somewhere between the relentless goofiness of 21 Jump Street and Starsky and Hutch and the slightly more serious - minded Spider - Man and Batman franchises, Michel Gondry's decidedly odd take on the radio / TV / comic classic mixes dark vigilante justice with candy - colored irreverence.

Initially appearing as an instance of the American government discouraging vigilante justice and blind, emotional hatred for the enemy, we quickly realise this is far from the case.

One neighbour, hysterically played by Elijah Wood, proves to be one of the good ones and together they take on the Babylon in an incredibly entertaining attempt at vigilante justice.

If I were one of the hardworking cast or crew responsible for the elaborate fights — like Affleck, Garner, or action choreographer Cheung - Yan Yuen (of the upcoming Matrix sequels)-- the spectacle of the obscured finished product of their labors might inspire some real - life vigilante justice.

The film's glamorisation of vigilante justice resonated with an increasingly paranoid audience in 1974.

Screenwriter Joe Carnahan (The Grey) tries to give voice to real concerns about vigilante justice through radio talk shows hosts.

Death Wish's biggest problem is a much more thoughtful examination of vigilante justice recently came out with Netflix's The Punisher series.

I like the Lone Ranger story, a Texas Ranger is presumed dead after being ambushed by some nogoodnicks but was saved by Tonto who owed him a life debt and the two carry out masked vigilante justice in the Old West.

Bruce Willis plays a doctor who practices vigilante justice on the side.

This paves the way for «Death Wish» - style vigilante justice and a rapidly rising body count.

Richard's deeper motivations for vigilante justice remain opaque — even, somehow, to his wife Anne (Vinessa Shaw), an insipid rendering of a female character whose concerns are limited strictly to interior décor.

And as if that isn't enough potential mayhem, Joe Don Baker, playing the dead man's understandably pissed - off father, is gearing up for some serious vigilante justice.

Forty - five years on, viewers are still beguiled by its alluring fantasy of righteous vigilante justice.

When he takes to the streets dispensing vigilante justice, only once does the film acknowledge the uneasiness of a hooded white man killing predominantly Latino and black gangbangers and being held up as a folk hero.

«A French person's idea of what a «70s grindhouse revenge movie is like — infused with feminist - inspired vigilante justice and manic verve» — Jim Slotek, Original - Cin.

Mercer has a support network of wealthy benefactors across the world — the Alliance — high powered people who secretly yearn for swift vigilante justice that isn't limited by jurisdictions or international borders.

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C.A.'s upcoming novel weaves a dark tale of horrific vigilante justice tainted by the bitter taste of revenge.

Murder and vigilante justice replace law and order.

So it's part Wikileaks - style information dump — snagging correspondence that the group hopes will incriminate Monsanto — and part digital vigilante justice.

The difference between vigilante justice and self defense is that the former is characterized by either the absence of law, the misusing of the law, or a dissatisfaction with the law.

An ex-war hero who ended up a career criminal, Keller walks out of prison and sets off on a killing spree the length of Britain delivering vigilante justice on the men who framed him by putting an under - age girl in his bed.

It becomes an examination of whether vigilante justice — no matter how well - intentioned at the start — is doomed, ultimately, to become just another example of would - be good guys falling prey to the lure of egotism and / or big money.

Meaning that these female characters exist to be assaulted in order to give the player something to do, a reason to chase down the bad guy, exact vigilante justice on him and gain the allotted experience points.

But the unsettling irony of My Darling Clementine is that Earp gets the badge as a cover for vigilante justice, and almost incidentally civilizes the place in the process.

Batman continues to act as a force of vigilante justice in Gotham City, but his presence causes a number of copy - cat «crime - fighters» to complicate the situation.

Part crime - drama and part action romp, «Snitch» is a forgettable story of vigilante justice that fails to follow through with its overarching sociopolitical leanings.

Russell Moore, head of the convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, took a stronger stand, saying that regardless of the verdict, Zimmerman was wrong to take «upon himself some sort of vigilante justice.»

Not my vigilante justice on the streets.

I happy stipulate that «vigilante justice» is an oxymoron.

Impatient with the NTC's lack of capacity to efficiently seize and prosecute former Qadhafi loyalists for their crimes against the Libyan people, some militias have resorted to vigilante justice.

Were we to conclude, regarding, say, Boston priest John Geoghan, who molested some 130 children, «It's not his fault he has that brain, so let him go home,» the result would undoubtedly be vigilante justice.