Villains get off easy

It is more and more difficult to find important topics on which someone smarter than I has not written. I myself have already written about the deplorably condition of only having three old, near-sighted, arithmetically-challenged referees doing the scoring in world championship boxing. Nobody has called me yet to design a better system. Oh well.

But I don't think anybody has written about a very unsatisfying ending of most Western and Science Fiction movies in which there is a villain who for 0.9995% of the action has perpetrated the most cruel and vile torture on innocent men, women, children, and other people. Most authors spend endless scenes showing the most barbaric tortures employed by these sub-human species. Yet, when in the last few milliseconds the hero finally arrives to save the one or two barely surviving specimen, the least one would hope that the villain now would be served similar punishment. In the early Middle Ages a poet named Dante in a rather longish poem modestly titled "Divine Comedy" has already dealt with the idea of just punishment. I cannot do justice to his tome--read the Cliff notes if you must--but in essence he wrote, "let the punishment fit the crime". You would think that Hollywood would put together a dream team of writers to think out heretofore unimagined tortures for the well-deserving villain. Maybe Fox channel could have an "American Villain" contest in which 70 million text messages could be sent with the best tortures to the winning villain. Surely, if we can send a man to the moon, we can think of some juicy tortures that would make the villain wish he had been never born. Or maybe even the script writers had never been born. Or the Universe had never been started. While he suffered eternal damnation the least he could do is SUFFER. But what does our hero do? Simply put a bullet in the villain's head and the movie fades out.
Is this justice?
Just
Paul