History Film / TheEvilThatMenDo

* KarmicDeath

* ReadingLips: Two movies in which Charles Bronson plays a hitman — The Mechanic (1972) and The Evil That Men Do (1984) — have the Villain Protagonist discovering information about the mark by watching them through a telescope and lipreading their discussion with another person. The latter movie foreshadows the skill by having a woman complain to her friend how Bronson's character never smiles. Bronson (who's across the room) picks that moment to smile at her, apparently disproving her point. She just says sourly that she knows he can read lips.

* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat:

* UndercoverAsLovers: Justified as a married couple draws less attention from the authorities.

* HoneyTrap / AThreesomeIsHot: Holland lures one of Molloch's bodyguards to his room by pretending he and Rhiana are into wife-swopping.

* HoneyTrap: Holland lures one of Molloch's bodyguards to his room by pretending he and Rhiana are into wife-swopping.

* IHaveYourWife: Holland plans to lure Molloch out into the open by kidnapping his sister, ostensibly for ransom. Molloch then gets his hands on Rhiana's daughter Susan.

* PsychoLesbian: The villainous version.

* EvilCounterpart: The CIA bring in their own hitman.

* HoneyTrap
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Sister]] / FakedKidnapping

* FakedKidnapping

* ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones".

* TortureTechnician: Dr Clement Molloch, a doctor who advises South American dictatorships on how to torture people. The movie opens with Molloch demonstrating to a group of army officers the use of Electric Torture on a dissident journalist.

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!Contains examples of:

* PsychoLesbian

* ShoutOut/ToShakespeare: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"

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-> "He was a nuisance, and I'm glad he's dead. I only wish he'd suffered a little longer."

* RetiredBadass: Holland. He pals around with a dolphin friend he's named [[TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Quasimodo]] in the Caymans, and shows no signs of wanting to give up his idyllic lifestyle, but when he's given proof and a reason to hunt Molloch down, he jumps back into action.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[CompleteMonster Molloch]] probably crossed the MoralEventHorizon long ago in his demonstrations of ColdBloodedTorture techniques, but we see it right away as he dispassionately electrocutes Jorge Hidalgo, not even showing the slightest perturbation when he dies.

'''The Evil That Men Do (1984)''' is an action/psychological-drama starring CharlesBronson and directed by J. Lee Thompson. Bronson plays Holland, an ex-FBI agent summoned out of retirement to investigate and assassinate Clemente Molloch (Joseph Maher), the essential TortureTechnician from Guatemala. Accompanying him is the wife (Theresa Saldana) and son of one of Molloch's recent victims.

** Molloch's wife almost simultaneously shows herself to be just as bad:

** The female warden of the prison where Hidalgo was imprisoned (we're assuming so far) almost simultaneously shows herself to be just as bad:

* ExternalCombustion: Some foreign assassins try this to get Molloch, but he switches cars at the last minute. The agent who planted the bomb gets caught underneath the unused car when the warden's guard starts it...

*** "He was a nuisance, and I'm glad he's dead. I only wish he'd suffered a little longer."

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: [[CompleteMonster Molloch]] probably crossed the MoralEventHorizon long ago in his demonstrations of ColdBloodedTorture techniques, but we see it right away as he dispassionately electrocutes Jorge Hidalgo, not even showing the slightest perturbation when he dies.

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