History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / LiveActionFilms

* Ending of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'', with the titular characters being ambushed by a posse. Except this is also TruthInTelevision.

* In ''Film/{{Outlander}}'', Kainan's people do orbital bombardment on a planet just to kill its natural inhabitants. Of course, given the amount of damage a single Moorwen did to the colony, this is perhaps a JustifiedTrope in retrospect.

* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': There are unsurprisingly, many, many examples in this series:
** Let's start with the [[Film/{{Transformers}} first movie]]:

** ''Film/RogueOne'' has Tarkin using the [[WaveMotionGun Death Star Superlaser]] to get rid of Krennic. It also qualifies as complete overkill as a measure to deal with the Rebels on Scarif, as there were less than a hundred actually on the planet's atmosphere at the time the weapon was fired while thousands of Imperial personnel were present and most of the Rebels had already been killed by those Imperial troops. The superlaser is literally fired ''directly'' through the antenna deck where the wounded Krennic is lying, and seeing as that was a less than ideal aiming point to wipe out the remaining Rebels (though the sheer size of the shockwave did the job anyway) there's no way this was a coincidence.

* In the first ever animated Disney film, ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the evil queen is struck by lightning (well, really it strikes the cliff she's standing on). She [[DisneyVillainDeath falls over the cliff]], and the boulder rolls off after her. What's left of her is presumably scavenged by vultures afterwards.

** In the latest Halloween movie, Halloween Ends, when [[spoiler:The citizens of Haddonfield finally get the upper hand on The Shape once and for all - shot, stabbed, legs crushed with a fridge - they take his now dead body and throw it into a car crusher. Michael Myers, at the end of the movie, is nothing but a pulpy liquid.]]

** In Music/RobZombie's ''Film/HalloweenII2009'', Michael stabs a nurse in the back. And then does it again. And again, and again, until after about an entire minute filled with stabbings, he rams the knife into her skull and leaves it stuck there.

*** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the kind of defenses planets in the ''StarWars'' galaxy may have: Alderaan had a planetary shield that survived the Superlaser blast for a tenth of second. The designers ''still'' went overboard, but they had a reason for that.

* ''Film/{{Casino}}'': A number of scenes include especially brutal deaths, but none moreso than the climatic scene, where movie protagonist – or VillainProtagonist – Nicky Santoro and his brother, Dominick, are lured to a cornfield (under the pretense they are meeting with adversaries to declare a truce), but are brutally clubbed to death by mob bosses working for casino owner Sam "Ace" Rothstein, who had finally lost his patience with Nicky. The upshot here is that the mobsters simply don't beat the Santoro brothers, but they continue striking both of them hundreds of times with full force, long after injuries were serious enough to be life-threatening, let alone send whatever “cease and desist” message they were hoping to send to Nicky. In fact, Dominick – whose beating Nicky was forced to watch before the mob shifts their attention to him – was virtually unconscious (but still breathing) when the mobsters were finished, only to get clubbed a couple more times (including the fatal blow to the skull) when Nicky cried out for mercy on his brother. Nicky, however, is allowed to live after his beating, but is BuriedAlive (and is implied to have eventually died of suffocation from the live burial and choking on his own blood).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJU2cz9ytPQ The death of Sonny Corleone ]] is the straightest example. Ambushed at a toll booth by a dozen [[RareGuns Tommy Gun]]-wielding gangsters, he is 1) shot several dozen times inside his car, 2) then shot some more outside the car, 3) then shot on the ground after he died, then 4) had his face kicked in for good measure. The commentary for the film confirms that this is all a justified trope: they wanted to make sure Sonny ''stayed dead'', given that his elderly father Vito had been repeatedly shot earlier in the film and survived (and not for the first time, as the book chronicles), and that Sonny was known to be a tough bastard. (The generally accepted number of times Sonny had been shot is 147, incidentally.)