Director Kurt Wimmer (1964)

Libria, a totalitarian city-state established by survivors of World War III, blames human emotion as the cause for the war. Any activity or object that stimulates emotion is strictly forbidden. Those in violation are labelled “Sense Offenders” and sentenced to death. The population is forced to take a daily injection of “Prozium II” to suppress emotion. Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council, led by “Father”, who communicates propaganda through giant video screens throughout the city. At the pinnacle of law enforcement are the Grammaton Clerics, trained in the martial art of gun kata. Clerics frequently raid homes to search for and destroy ...

Karl Savak, a “rogue FBI agent”, is attempting to steal and sell military weapons. When stealing weaponry, one of Savak’s henchmen, Marcus, kills Darlene and Marianne North, the wife and daughter of Army Staff Sgt. John North. North himself is shot and lapses into a coma for eight weeks. When he regains consciousness he discovers that Savak has put Marcus onto a witness protection program. As a result, North decides to enact his own justice and seeks revenge on Savak and his henchmen. At the end, it’s revealed that Savak was the one behind the murders of North’s family and he avenges them when he throws him off a roof and onto a piano, killing him.