No movie death in 2015 was as brutally unforgiving as this. Mysterious enforcer Alejandro Gillick (Benicio del Toro) heads to the home of drug lord Fausto Alarcón (Julio Cedillo), who years previously murdered Alejandro's wife and daughter when he was a prosecutor in Mexico. In the tripwire-tense scene, Alejandro interrupts Fausto's dinner with his wife and two young sons, at which point Fausto begs that he not be killed in front of his two children. As the shot lingers on Fausto's face, we hear three shots ring out and bodies slump to the floor, before we see that Alejandro has killed Fausto's family. A moment passes before Alejandro then plugs a few rounds into Fausto also. As a shocking statement on the nature of revenge and an stomach-knottingly brutal moment in its own right, there are few death scenes in recent memory as visceral as this.
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