Whether it’s done single-handedly or achieved through the might of an army, the rescue is a thrilling element to many a movie and draws its success in large part from combining an action spectacle with an all-mighty emotional wallop. SciFiNow takes a look at the top ten that made the grade
Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Nick Stahl
When Jessica Alba’s Nancy Callahan is kidnapped by Yellow Bastard, Bruce Willis’s weathered cop pulls himself to his feet and stumbles to the farm where she is being held. It’s not the success of his rescue of the girl he had saved many years earlier that stands out, though, but rather the crushing brutality of the manner in which it is carried out. To cure Yellow Bastard of his evils, Hartigan decides to relieve him of the most vital, and masculine, organs that are at the heart of his sickening ways.
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Directors: Damian Butt, Steven Boyd, Mark Kendrick, Harry Dhand, Sam Watkinson
