Cinema history is littered with mild mannered men and women who suddenly decided they just couldn't take it any more.
This week alone sees the release of Law Abiding Citizen at the cinema and Fight Club on Blu-ray - two very different takes on the normal-man-goes-mental character-type.
So we've decided to gather together some of the toughest ordinary citizens we've seen on the big screen.
Some have bomb skills, some have shotgun skills, some have bat-skills. But they're all the sort of people you'd pass in the street without a second look.
Well, apart from Rambo. You'd probably double-take at Rambo.
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Average Joe: Engineer Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler)
What turns him?: Home invaders raping his wife, then killing both her and Clyde’s daughter.
Proving-a-point postal: It’s not enough to get revenge on the actual perps. That’d be too easy.
Shelton is out to get the entire justice system, as symbolised by crooked prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx).
Which seems a tad excessive. Couldn’t he just have written a letter of complaint?
Next: Falling Down
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BigAndyT
Nov 26th 2009, 19:37
Paddy in dead mans shoes surely?
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metalgatesolid
Nov 26th 2009, 19:39
What about Frank Castle in the "not bad but not brilliant" Punishers?
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fezdaferret
Dec 1st 2009, 4:04
what about Liam Neesons Character Bryan Mills from Taken, surely one of the best films of last year
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