Revenge - 1990

I didn’t like it at all, not one bit. It’s mainly the story I don’t like. And I hate the ending. It wasn’t brilliantly acted either, mind you. The first half was boringly obvious and slow, and honestly without emotions, the second half was partly too cruel and partly not enough. First thing first, the characters were not really involving. I didn’t really feel for any of them for a long time. Tibey (Anthony Quinn) is so obviously a bad guy that you keep wondering what the hell is wrong with Cochran (Kevin Costner), why didn’t he go away back to his US instead of staying there. Also, they showed his hard side, but there was no scene that explained why he was thought of as charming. Of course the old, powerful, rich man has a young trophy wife, Miryea (Madeleine Stowe), and of course she’s unhappy and falls in love with the handsome young friend of her husband. Cochran falls for her too, after seeing each other a couple of times and spending an afternoon together playing with the dog on the beach. Another thing I didn’t like, I didn’t feel any love there, they barely knew each other. She was unhappy and like a prisoner, I could understand that, but what did he like? That she was pretty, I guess. :-/
He senses that they are about to go into dangerous territory, but she seems to constantly show up in front of him wherever he turns. Eventually they have sex in her house during a party, while Tibey is dancing outside. Which is wrong on so many levels.
After that he phones a friend in the States who gives him the best advice: get in the car and go home as fast as you can. He never takes advices of course. She asks him not to leave her. They plan to stay together a whole weekend, but she uses the phone at home to phone a friend to ask her to cover for her. Tibey lets them go, then reaches them at Cochran’s cabin, has him badly beaten in front of her, than leaves him alive so he can watch while he disfigures her face and tells her that she’ll end up in a brothel where men will use her day and night. They set fire to the cabin but don’t let him inside, they take him outside and leave him to die there.. but he’ll be found and cured. As soon as he feels better he sets out for revenge. Well, more or less, that was what I thought because of the title, but the only real revenge was Tibey’s. Cochran wants to find her. He only kills one man, the one that beat him.
He finds some help from someone who also has personal reasons to hate Tibey. They interrogate a man then visit a brothel where she was but is no more. Nobody seems to know where she is, only Tibey. At last Cochran confronts him with a weapon. Cochran apologizes to him for stealing his wife (!!) and is told that she is now in a convent. She’s suffered a lot, she’s been used and drugged and used, and he finds her on her deathbed. They barely have time to say I love you to each other, and then she dies in his arms and the movie ends. With all the bastards alive and well. He should have killed them all, both Tibey and those that used her. 
ITA revenge vendetta