10 Huge Mistakes Which Doomed Movie Characters

"Hey, remember me? Benny Blanco from the Bronx."

A legendary reputation amongst New York's underworld ultimately still isn't adequate to save the eponymous character of 1993's Carlito's Way from the ramifications of an earlier mistake.

The early goings of the Al Pacino-led effort see former career criminal Carlito Brigante propositioned by a hot-headed up-and-coming gangster from the Bronx - John Leguizamo's Benny Blanco. Carlito declines several offers to do business with Blanco, culminating in an explosive showdown in a strip club. Pacino's grizzled criminal publicly humiliates Benny but lets him leave with his life.

Lamentably, Carlito's mistake ultimately proves to be two-fold - humiliating a man badly enough to cause him to seek bloody revenge and letting him go scott-free without neutralising the threat. The absence of his historically ruthless edge alienates his bodyguard Pachanga, who begins working for Benny in secret, eventually providing the scorned gangster with Carlito's location. 

The film's explosive final act sees Leguizamo's charge ambush Brigante as he attempts to flee New York, gunning him down with a silenced pistol in retribution for his earlier slight. The mistake? Never let your enemies live.