This guy really wants to know what you did to his boy![/caption]In movies, (and you see this a lot in heist films), but in most movies criminals are just that… criminals! Good, bad they are what they are what they are and they oft time do what they do very well!
What I mean by this, is that rather or not the guy in the movie who is robbing the bank, or robbing the house or are committing some other form of crime but are generally a good guy at heart, or is a total asshole at heart, these criminals in these movie generally speaking tend to at least initially like what they do, and are pretty good at it!
You might be saying to yourself at this point, ‘well duh, thanks for that Captain Obvious…’ Well the reason that I mentioned this, is that I got to thinking, ‘what is a great way that criminals in movies have been known to redeem themselves or to at the very least face up to their crimes? And well I thought about it… And a great way to do so, is when they are with a group and are facing a threat that threatens to destroy them all… Such as the undead!
A great example of this is the movie, From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)… Believe it or not this movie could be said to be a lot of things… A total gore fest (which it is), an awesome sort of supernatural heist movie (It is that to)… As a matter of fact it is that but so much more!
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Seth Gecko (Played by: George Clooney) and Richard Gecko (Played by: Quentin Tarantino) as the fun is about to begin![/caption]This movie tells the story of the Gecko Brothers who whiling being low life criminals are trying to get out of the country so that they can live off the money they stole in a country that has no extradition… And as a way they believe that they can do so is to kidnap this fallen Priest and his family while they make their way down to Mexico…
What no one expects is that the Bar that the Gecko’s wish to meet their contact at happens to be a bar that is populated with the undead! So in the end, Seth Gecko (Played by: George Clooney) and the fallen Priest by the name of Jacob Fuller (played by: Harvey Kietel) as well as Fuller’s family will have to band together to get out of this undead nightmare before they are served up like food on a hot plate!
Now besides the fact that this truly is an awesome gore fest and a fun super natural heist movie that was created by Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), I also thought that this was a great redemption movie, because (although he does in the end, end up keeping the money) Seth goes to war alongside the Fuller family against the undead (and seems like he is generally trying to do more than just save his own ass), and in the process of this epic struggle Jacob will ultimately end up finding hi faith again!
This next example may not be supernatural, and it may not even be a heist movie, (and unfortunately it may not really be a good movie), but this movie is called, Nine Dead (2010), about a group of people from all walks of life (including a Cop and a low level mob lieutenant), can come together in mutual protection of each other when they are kidnapped and forced to discover what crime they each committed together (without realizing it) and to answer for their crimes!
Now this next example is kind of a cool super natural story of a heist on a ship and the justice that the victims are looking for from beyond the grave! This movie being: Ghost Ship (2002)…
You see this movie tells the story of a Passenger liner from the 60s that is sitting lifeless in the early part of the new millennium and the salvage crew that finds the ship, and claims it and starts towing it back to shore… Of course as they do so they start experiencing strange phenomena occurring on board the ship… And the only way to survive this salvage trip is to find out what happened to the ship, it’s passengers and crew, and to ultimately get justice for one of the bloodiest heists in history!
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The Ship of the damned...[/caption]There are some other such truly awesome examples of criminals getting their justice in other films of the horror genre as well as other genres, but if you’re a horror fan like me you will enjoy the fact that criminals in hell means justice served!
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The kidnapped and the kidnapper in, 'Nine Dead' (2010)![/caption]