Olivaw (Level 13)

Taken has been mentioned before and will be mentioned again, but god damn if it isn't one of the most satisfying revenge films ever made. Liam Neeson deserves more roles like this.

The movie that started it all, and one of Charles Bronson's best performances. Death Wish is just as intense and thrilling today as it was when it was made. And there ain't a man alive who could ever rock a moustache like Bronson.

We can't talk about revenge films without talking about the man who made his entire career out of films in which he takes revenge - Bruce Lee. He was a force of nature that could not be stopped, not by claw-handed masterminds, not by Walker Texas Ranger, not even by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar himself. Enter the Dragon may be his magnum opus, but Chinese Connection had his best fight scenes. Hey, fun drinking game: marathon all of Bruce Lee's movies and take a shot any time he hits a dude in the dick. You will be WASTED by the end.

This is arguably the best "angry cop" movie ever made. And it totally counts as a revenge flick because his partner buys it in opening scene in the teahouse, one of the most iconic action sequences of all time. How do you NOT love this movie? I mean, the dude is named TEQUILA for god's sake.

Death Wish 3 is on this list because Charles Bronson and his sidekick totally kill like five hundred billion people in the name of vengeance. In terms of sheer bodycount it's one of the most violent films ever made! And BRONSON HAS A ROCKET LAUNCHER.

Boy, you wanna talk about revenge? You ain't seen nothin' until you've seen Clint Eastwood get his. It is COMPREHENSIVE.

The best Punisher movie ever made that wasn't a Punisher movie, Tony Scott's kickass flick is one of the most intense revenge thrillers to come along in a long time. It's not just the things that he does, it's that they don't seem to bother him at all. Chopping off a dude's finger with a cigar cutter? No biggie. Our hero remains calm and collected throughout as he bears down on his victims like an unstoppable freight train (you see what I did there). Of all the fictional people I never want to fuck with, Creasy is near the top of the list.

Now the best Punisher movie that WAS a Punisher movie. War Zone doesn't get a lot of respect, but that's because people are fucking stupid. Ray Stephenson is intimidating as shit in this flick. I can name like five times when he did something so totally fucking ruinous to a dude that I laughed aloud. That's almost twice as much as I laughed at the first Punisher movie for sucking so hard!