Ranking All Of Sean Bean's Movie Deaths From Lamest To Best

14. Red Riding: The Year Of Our Lord 1974 - Shot Sitting Next To Killer

The Red Riding trilogy is based on a series of books by the same name and are fictional retellings of some of the worst crimes and cases of police corruption in the UK from 1974 to 1983.

The first film of the trilogy stars Andrew Garfield who plays a journalist investigating a wealthy gangster (Sean Bean) accused of torturing, raping and murdering young women. When Garfield becomes too emotionally invested in the story, he takes justice into his own hands and murders Bean in the VIP suite of his night club.

Despite being threatened with a gun in his face, Bean is un-phased and sprawled out on his leather couch with a cigarette in his mouth. The journalist, haunted by what he's learned, empties his revolver into Bean's torso whilst sitting inches away from him in glorious slow motion.

This Sean Bean death isn't his goriest by a long stretch (although Garfield is covered in blood at this point), but it is without a doubt one of the most emotional and, it has to be said, probably the comfiest any of Bean's characters have been before dying.

Revenge: 10/10

Anger: 10/10

Chance of getting the Bean blood stains out of that couch: 0/10

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