Word: psychopathic
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...Brett Ratner. Following the success of his last Hollywood victory Rush Hour 2, Ratner now helms a decidedly different sort of action as he takes the reins from Ridley Scott (Hannibal). With Edward Norton as the retired FBI agent who returns to the Bureau to catch a family-slaughtering psychopath (the dashing Ralph Fiennes, believe it or not), this nail-biting psycho-thriller looks to outperform its predecessors...
Though Ritter, a former Marine who served in the Gulf War, called Saddam Hussein a “psychopath,” he urged the nation not to rush to judgment or to practice “vigilante justice...
...young man named Samuel Comstock boarded the whaleship Globe carrying a trunk full of garden seeds. But Comstock was not a naturalist; he was a psychopath. According to Thomas Farel Heffernan's Mutiny on the Globe, he killed the ship's officers, seized the Globe and sailed it to a remote tropical island, where he planned to found a new kingdom--at which point, presumably, those seeds would come in handy. Not to give away the ending, but when Comstock and his crew finally reached their tropical paradise, let's just say the locals taught them a thing...
...grim situation causes anguish for the elder Rooney. He loves Michael far better than he does his natural son. But blood is thicker than affection; he must support the psychopath. There is deeper anguish for the senior Sullivan. It is not just that his wife and younger boy have been killed; it is that all the codes by which he has lived have been violated. These simple souls are driven by a blind and brutal fate; we know from the outset that they are as doomed as Oedipus...
...participant in the gang-rape of a young girl, his father insists he resume classes at the prestigious Hosei Academy. (The rape is a side issue. Dad has made a large donation to the school and wants to get his money's worth.) Kazuki reacts like any budding young psychopath might?by beating a dog to death with an expensive golf club...