Top 5 vigilantes

Being a big fan of  the Punisher and vigilante genre itself  it was only a matter of time before I done a list of my top 5 vigilantes in movies. Whats a vigilante you might ask?
In movies there are some times heros who dont have powers or a badge to help them. The ones they loved or cared for have been killed or raped and nothing has been done. These people are the ones you root for even though they take the law into their own hands and deal out a justice that others might find extreme.
These are the top 5 best movie Vigilantes.

(1)Paul Kersey: Death Wish
Paul Kersey is a mild mannered architect who draws arms when his wife and daughter are murdered and sexually assaulted. Angered buy the system that dosent seem to work Kersey takes to stalking the streets of New York and killing everylow life he can find with swift justice. Kersey dosent seem to enjoy the killing or take any pleasure in it but seems to find it helps deal with the tragic events of what befell his family. Charles Bronson played Kersey with a cool lowbrow effect that made the charater almost wolf like. Always aware and always ready for what the urban Jungle would spit out.The movie spawned a number of follow ups but the first is buy far the best. Charles for bringing us the most bad ass vigilante you got yourself the top spot.

(2)John Eastland:The Exterminator
When Eastlands buddy who saved his ass in Nam is crippled he decides to take on a gang named the Ghetto Ghouls and bring a little war to the streets of New York. While like Kersey he dosent relish violence Eastland isnt afraid to do aweful ,aweful things to aweful people i:e dropping a mobster into a meat grinder feet first or letting rats eat some drugdealers alive....its almost like a little bit of the Vietnam war got into him and is seeping out like a venom upon those who he sees as evil. Robert Ginty was a fucking ice-man in this movie...he wasent the most tough guy in the world but when he had to take out the trash he just burnt the rubbishbin. John Eastland in many ways the the closet movie version of my best loved comic book vigilante the Punisher...he was a Nam vet, he wasent a hulk of a man and he's not a fan of conversation. To me the Exterminator was the best Punisher movie never made and thats why Johnny boy gets number 2.

(3)Nick Hume:Death Sentence
If I had to pick who the most dangerous vigilante on this list Id have to go with Nick. While the other top guys are badass,s Nick is the one who dosent give a shit....buy the third act of the movie your like "fuck hes on a suicide mission." He thinks hes lost everything ...hes got nothing left to lose. This is probley one of Kevin Bacons best preformances. Hes hurt, hes tortured and he just want revenge.He cuts a swat through the gang that kills his family and in the process becomes as savage as they are, showing that unlike the other movies that an eye for an eye does indeed leave everyone blind.

(4)Erica Bain: The Brave One
Erica is the only female Vigilante on this list but this isnt the reason I put her on. The reason shes on is cause in my mind shes the most realistic of the 5. When she and your fiancé are attacked and he dies Erica is lost in a state of trauma and anger. Having lost some one she really loved and feeling nothing is even being done she decides to aquire a gun for her own saftey and over the course of the movie finds her self in situations when otherwise she'd be the victem she is able to overcome her fear and decides to avenge the the one she lost. Jodie Foster delivers one powerful preformance in this movie showing the the hurt and anger of someone who has gone through such a schocking event and determined never to let it happen agien.

(5)Harry Brown: Harry Brown
Theres nothing more scarey than being an elderly person living on your own. what happens when your only mate is murdered and the world around you is like a battlefield. Harry Brown is some one whos seen war and death and wants nothing more to do with it. When he first is attacked he defends himself with a reflex action...he dosent go looking for trouble...hes alone and sad. Unlike the other movies your not only root for that character but you fear for him. He's like everyones grandad...when he presues one of the thugs who killed his mate he suffers a heart attack. Micheal Cain brings a very mortal quality to this vigilante...some one who trys to aviod trouble when ever possible but isnt afraid to take it on despite his age or the odds and that what lands him on my list.



Creature Feature:Carnosaur

So in 1993 Jurassic Park came out and I was nine and my sister took me to see it on the big screen. For a boy of my age it was like being at fucking Woodstock....it was a movie with dinosaurs! There was other kiddie flicks that had bad dinosuar suits and shit but nothing ever came close bar one flick that my dad let me rent and buy christ I was glad my father didnt give a shit what I watched.

Made of a shoe string budget this mockbuster was Roger Corman in the wake of the Jurassic Park Hype to Cash in. The story is loosely(( and I really fucking mean loosely)) on Josh Brosnans book of the same name.

The story is kinda of a mess but ill try and give you the bare bones. Set in some poe-dung town of the south west were introduced to our hero Doc a drunk night watchemn((yes you know your on to a good start when your hero a pissed watchmen)) who job it is to guard industrail machinery from pesky tree-hugging kids one of whom he "Befriend" ((theres a courtcase in there somewhere)) called I shit you not THRUSH.
Meanwhile in some fucking lab a scientest Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd whos the mom of the chick in jurassic park) is faffing around with reptile DNA to make dinosuars and get this injecting them into chicken eggs...why? who fucking knows. One of her beasties ecapes and slaughters those peskey kids and Ron Howards creepy brother (its cant be that bad so). The sheriff manages to bring it down but being the only black guy in this movie has his ticket punched anyway. Our heros try to stop the doctor and she releases her prize T-rex to stop them. ((right now im looking over why what im typing and reliseing I still have to sell you this block shit...so here I go))

Why do I like this pile of Dino doo-doo! Threes reasons.

(1) Its Dino-violance. Sure Jurassic park had dinosaurs attacking people but it wasnt a gory affair which bothered me in later years, I mean if your attacked buy an animal its going to be a fucking mess. This monsters were savage. A young girl who chained herself to a digger in a protest has her leg torn off like a chicken drumstick buy a dinosuar in a gory fashion, Clint Howards death is amazeing and you get to see what a shotgun would do to a pissed off dinosaur...which in other movies would be like "Bullits wont stop it"

(2) T-Rex vs Bulldozers. Right being a big Aliens fan I know this is a knock off but shit its a fucking T-rex vs building machinery. I mean come on it is pretty sweet!

(3) The ending. Im not going to give it away but its darker then a November night.

So you want jurassic parks cheap-sleazy sister then I suggest you check out Carnosaur...even for Clints death it worth it.