8 Movie Villains Whose Punishments Were Far Too Severe
4. Francis Hummel (The Rock)
It's hard to defend somebody who threatened to launch a chemical weapons attack on San Francisco, but let's give it a go.
The important thing concerning The Rock's Brigadier General Francis Hummel is to look at the reason why he's turned to evil.
The decorated military veteran's sole motivation is to extort the US government out of $100 million, not for his own financial gain, but to care for the families of marines who died on covert missions.
While Hummel's intentions are noble, his methods are pure madness, but ask yourself this... was capital punishment necessary?
The general is gunned down in the final act, giving Nicolas Cage's character the location of the final missile with his dying breaths to achieve a degree of redemption.
Clearly there was still good in the former war hero, who would have been better served by a stint in a corrective instiutue than a hail of bullets.