Films where the bad guys win?

[Beyond Rational]

Buried

[rehab71]

No Country for Old Men

[RB Will]

thesyn said:

Protagonists win rather than all out bad guys?

Yeah maybe thats the angle I should have gone for, films where the guys you are rooting for lose rather than who is technically naughty or nice.

[Amirhussain]

SpudLink said:

Woolf Creek.

Good shout. Great film.

[Adz The Rat]

Zoobeef said:

I wanted him to win in Law Abiding Citizen

I always want Bane to win in Dark Knight Rises

[shakotan]

Amirhussain said:

SpudLink said:

Woolf Creek.

Good shout. Great film.

Bad guy doesn't really win though as one escapes.

[MiniMan64]

Terminator 3.

I really wasn't expecting the bombs to drop.

[Amirhussain]

shakotan said:

Amirhussain said:

SpudLink said:

Woolf Creek.

Good shout. Great film.

Bad guy doesn't really win though as one escapes.

True, but bad guy does get away with a lot of stuff.

[anonymous-user]

Syriana. Not sure who wins tbh.

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Amirhussain said:

Arlington Road

An absolutely quality film.

I love Tim Robbins anyway, and I saw this in the cinema one evening - and I didn't know much about it, so the ending was a surprise.

Jeff Bridges plays his usual wonderfully scatty / paranoid character so well, and is the perfect opposition to Robbins' cool, calculated role.

Joan Cusack playing a quite scary and menacing supporting role.


A lovely twist at the end, which I JUST saw coming before it happened

The sort of film that provokes a bit of a discussion afterwards about good and evil and what's right and wrong - and if collateral damage is acceptable in the pursuit of a belief...

Do watch this.

[3sixty]

Inside Man

And can't remember if it's The Hills Have Eyes or The Core (or some other under ground cave movie) where one girl gets out to be immediately recaptured as film ends

[keslake]

The long good friday.

[SpudLink]

keslake said:

The long good friday.

One of the great closing scenes in film history.

[Voldemort]

The Great Escape

[98elise]

SpudLink said:

keslake said:

The long good friday.

One of the great closing scenes in film history.

Excellent bit of acting from Bob Hoskins. I've seen the film once, about 20 years ago, and I still remenber the scene clearly.

[keslake]

98elise said:

SpudLink said:

keslake said:

The long good friday.

One of the great closing scenes in film history.

Excellent bit of acting from Bob Hoskins. I've seen the film once, about 20 years ago, and I still remenber the scene clearly.

It also had one of the best themes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsGrm1JzgLY

Edited by keslake on Saturday 1st November 11:48

[dudleybloke]

Independence Day.

[Blib]

That russell crowe film "Master & commander" (?). The bad guy sort of wins in the end.

[entropy]

Bad Lieutenant (original - I've not seen remake)

Oldboy

Infernal Affairs

hidetheelephants said:

keith333 said:

The classic one is Payback with Mel Gibson. Even the DVD cover says "Get ready to root for the bad guy". He is the least bad guy in the movie though :-)

Point Blank, which it's supposed to be based on, is better. It's pretty easy to believe Lee Marvin as a cold-blooded killer.

As The Italian Job has been mentioned, Kelly's Heroes needs listing.

Protagonists that are also 'bad guys' = anti-heroes

[rossub]

Sinister