Revenge (1990)

Michael J. “Jay” Cochran is a retiring U.S. Navy aviator who, after 12 years in the service, wants to relax and live one day at a time. He goes to Mexico, accepting a matched pair of Beretta shotguns and an invitation from his wealthy friend Tiburon “Tibby” Mendez to spend time at his hacienda in Mexico. Tibby is a powerful crime boss, constantly surrounded by bodyguards.
While trying to find the hacienda, Cochran meets Tibby’s wife, a beautiful young woman named Miryea, riding a horse. She lives in lavish surroundings but is unhappy because her much-older husband does not want children, feeling pregnancy would spoil her looks.
Jay is a welcome guest and presents his friend with a Navy G-1 leather flight jacket. But he rubs Tibby’s suspicious right-hand man Cesar the wrong way by behaving independently and not acting like an employee.
After a dinner Tibby conducts a private meeting with business associates while Miryea gets acquainted with Jay. She becomes attracted to him and the next day they share a private walk on the beach. During a party, with Tibby and his men nearby, they secretly make love.
Tension grows, Jay worried that Tibby will become aware of the situation. Miryea begs Jay not to leave. They arrange a secret rendezvous, Miryea pretending that she will be visiting a friend in Miami when she actually is going to accompany Jay to a remote cabin he occupies.
Cesar overhears a conversation in which Miryea asks her Miami friend to lie for her. Tibby pays a visit to Jay and invites him on a trip to the Beretta factory to custom-fit his new shotguns, but Jay declines. Tibby tells his friend goodbye. At the airport, Tibby also gives Miryea one last kiss. Jay is secretly waiting to drive her to the cabin.
At their hideaway, they are surprised by Tibby and his men. Jay’s beloved dog is killed. Tibby, calling Mireyaa “faithless whore,” strikes her and cuts her face with a knife, leaving a conspicuous scar. Tibby’s henchmen viciously beat and kick Jay. They set fire to the cabin, dump Jay in the desert, and leave him to die.
Miryea is placed in a whorehouse, where she is drugged, abused, and relegated to “common use.” The young man responsible for keeping her drugged has AIDS. Miryea no longer wants to live like this. She persuades him to share a needle with her, thus infecting her.
Jay’s unconscious body is discovered by a Mexican man, who slowly nurses him back to health. He returns to the burnt cabin and retrieves some money he had stashed away. His rescuer drives Jay to town and gives him a knife to “cut the balls off your enemy.” He encounters a Texan delivering a horse, who offers Jay a ride in his car. Inside a cantina, Jay notices one of the thugs who had beat him up. Jay follows him into the men’s room and cuts his throat.
After a day on the road, the Texan, clearly ill, trades his horse to a wealthy man, who recognizes Jay from an afternoon at Tibby’s estate. The friendly Texan dies in his car, apparently of tuberculosis.
At a motel, Jay runs across Amador, the cousin of the Mexican Good Samaritan who had saved his life. Amador and his quiet friend, Ignacio, have their own issues with Tiburon Mendez and are willing to help. They capture another of the henchmen. He tells them where Miryea can be found. Jay barges into the brothel to rescue her, only to find that she has been moved. No one but Tibby knows where she is.
Jay, Amador, and Ignacio ambush Tibby and his bodyguard on a trail. Jay is here for revenge, but first Tibby requests that Jay ask forgiveness for having stolen his wife.
Miryea is in a convent hospice, dying of AIDS. By the time Jay arrives, it is too late. He carries her outside, where she dies in his arms.

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