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-->"Punish only he who has committed the crime."
-->--'''Marcus Aurelius''', ''Meditations''
''Acts of Vengeance'' is a 2017 thriller/martial arts film directed by Isaac Florentine. It stars Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/KarlUrban and Creator/PazVega.
Frank Valera (Banderas) is an immensely successful lawyer with a reputation of having a silver tongue. One bad night, however, he returns home to find his wife and little daughter murdered in their car. Seeing his life crumble in front of his eyes, and upon finding out that the cops are completely in the dark with the case, Valera becomes a self-punishing alcoholic that finds solace as a tomato can in an illegal UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts circuit. However, after getting in a street fight while trying a child prostitute, he gets through the window of a discount book store, where he fortuitously grabs Marcus Aurelius' ''Meditations'' to stop the bleeding of a wound. Valera then discovers the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, and resolves to become a vigilante and undergo a vow of silence until he discovers who killed his wife and daughters.
Not to be confused with the 1974 film ''Film/ActOfVengeance''.
!!Tropes in ''Acts of Vengeance'' include:
* CulturedBadass: Valera becomes one after getting into philosophy. During his TrainingMontage, we can see him studying not only the ''Meditations'', but also Sun Tzu's ''[[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu The Art of War]]'', UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi's ''Literature/TheBookOfFiveRings'', Inazo Nitobe's ''Book of Bushido'', Zeno of Citium's ''The Republic'' and Herodotus' ''Literature/TheHistories''.
* The Stoic: Valera becomes one, both in a literal and a figurative sense.
-->--'''Marcus Aurelius''', ''Meditations''
''Acts of Vengeance'' is a 2017 thriller/martial arts film directed by Isaac Florentine. It stars Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/KarlUrban and Creator/PazVega.
Frank Valera (Banderas) is an immensely successful lawyer with a reputation of having a silver tongue. One bad night, however, he returns home to find his wife and little daughter murdered in their car. Seeing his life crumble in front of his eyes, and upon finding out that the cops are completely in the dark with the case, Valera becomes a self-punishing alcoholic that finds solace as a tomato can in an illegal UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts circuit. However, after getting in a street fight while trying a child prostitute, he gets through the window of a discount book store, where he fortuitously grabs Marcus Aurelius' ''Meditations'' to stop the bleeding of a wound. Valera then discovers the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, and resolves to become a vigilante and undergo a vow of silence until he discovers who killed his wife and daughters.
Not to be confused with the 1974 film ''Film/ActOfVengeance''.
!!Tropes in ''Acts of Vengeance'' include:
* CulturedBadass: Valera becomes one after getting into philosophy. During his TrainingMontage, we can see him studying not only the ''Meditations'', but also Sun Tzu's ''[[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu The Art of War]]'', UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi's ''Literature/TheBookOfFiveRings'', Inazo Nitobe's ''Book of Bushido'', Zeno of Citium's ''The Republic'' and Herodotus' ''Literature/TheHistories''.
* The Stoic: Valera becomes one, both in a literal and a figurative sense.
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-->--'''Marcus Aurelius''', ''Meditations''
''Acts of Vengeance''
* ''Film/ActOfVengeance'', a 1974 American exploitation film.
* ''Film/ActsOfVengeance2017'', an 2017
Frank Valera (Banderas) is an immensely successful lawyer with a reputation of having a silver tongue. One bad night, however, he returns home to find his wife and little daughter murdered in their car. Seeing his life crumble in front of his eyes, and upon finding out that the cops are completely in the dark with the case, Valera becomes a self-punishing alcoholic that finds solace as a tomato can in an illegal UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts circuit. However, after getting in a street fight while trying a child prostitute, he gets through the window of a discount book store, where he fortuitously grabs Marcus Aurelius' ''Meditations'' to stop the bleeding of a wound. Valera then discovers the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, and resolves to become a vigilante and undergo a vow of silence until he discovers who killed his wife and daughters.
Not to be confused with the 1974 film ''Film/ActOfVengeance''.
!!Tropes in ''Acts of Vengeance'' include:
* CulturedBadass: Valera becomes one after getting into philosophy. During his TrainingMontage, we can see him studying not only the ''Meditations'', but also Sun Tzu's ''[[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu The Art of War]]'', UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi's ''Literature/TheBookOfFiveRings'', Inazo Nitobe's ''Book of Bushido'', Zeno of Citium's ''The Republic'' and Herodotus' ''Literature/TheHistories''.
* The Stoic: Valera becomes one, both in a literal and a figurative sense.
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-->"Punish only he who has committed the crime."
-->--'''Marcus Aurelius''', ''Meditations''
''Acts of Vengeance'' is a 2017 thriller/martial arts film directed by Isaac Florentine. It stars Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/KarlUrban and Creator/PazVega.
Frank Valera (Banderas) is an immensely successful lawyer with a reputation of having a silver tongue. One bad night, however, he returns home to find his wife and little daughter murdered in their car. Seeing his life crumble in front of his eyes, and upon finding out that the cops are completely in the dark with the case, Valera becomes a self-punishing alcoholic that finds solace as a tomato can in an illegal UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts circuit. However, after getting in a street fight while trying a child prostitute, he gets through the window of a discount book store, where he fortuitously grabs Marcus Aurelius' ''Meditations'' to stop the bleeding of a wound. Valera then discovers the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, and resolves to become a vigilante and undergo a vow of silence until he discovers who killed his wife and daughters.
Not to be confused with the 1974 film ''Film/ActOfVengeance''.
!!Tropes in ''Acts of Vengeance'' include:
* CulturedBadass: Valera becomes one after getting into philosophy. During his TrainingMontage, we can see him studying not only the ''Meditations'', but also Sun Tzu's ''[[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu The Art of War]]'', UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi's ''Literature/TheBookOfFiveRings'', Inazo Nitobe's ''Book of Bushido'', Zeno of Citium's ''The Republic'' and Herodotus' ''Literature/TheHistories''.
* The Stoic: Valera becomes one, both in a literal and a figurative sense.
-->--'''Marcus Aurelius''', ''Meditations''
''Acts of Vengeance'' is a 2017 thriller/martial arts film directed by Isaac Florentine. It stars Creator/AntonioBanderas, Creator/KarlUrban and Creator/PazVega.
Frank Valera (Banderas) is an immensely successful lawyer with a reputation of having a silver tongue. One bad night, however, he returns home to find his wife and little daughter murdered in their car. Seeing his life crumble in front of his eyes, and upon finding out that the cops are completely in the dark with the case, Valera becomes a self-punishing alcoholic that finds solace as a tomato can in an illegal UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts circuit. However, after getting in a street fight while trying a child prostitute, he gets through the window of a discount book store, where he fortuitously grabs Marcus Aurelius' ''Meditations'' to stop the bleeding of a wound. Valera then discovers the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, and resolves to become a vigilante and undergo a vow of silence until he discovers who killed his wife and daughters.
Not to be confused with the 1974 film ''Film/ActOfVengeance''.
!!Tropes in ''Acts of Vengeance'' include:
* CulturedBadass: Valera becomes one after getting into philosophy. During his TrainingMontage, we can see him studying not only the ''Meditations'', but also Sun Tzu's ''[[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu The Art of War]]'', UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi's ''Literature/TheBookOfFiveRings'', Inazo Nitobe's ''Book of Bushido'', Zeno of Citium's ''The Republic'' and Herodotus' ''Literature/TheHistories''.
* The Stoic: Valera becomes one, both in a literal and a figurative sense.
