So H kills the dudes wife....

next time, type SPOILER ALERT you idiot. people like you should be banned from IMDB

I, too, do not understand your problem with the fact that they continue working with H after he has killed the wife. At that point it was already crystal clear that they would be willing to let him do almost anything to get the locations of the bombs. It is up to you to decide if you agree with them, but there is nothing wrong with the movie here. The movie is not trying to convince you that you should approve of H's methods, but to make you think about the dilemma here.

Furthermore, in my opinion, mathematics is not the proper tool here, as suggested by some...

Besides that, I believe that all those racist people out here didn't quite understand the honesty and neutrality of the movie and have no business discussing their completely off-topic nonsense here...

Basically this is a film that wants to create soulless hardened people with no heart like H who will start hating a group of people just because they worship One God who has no partners or sons. The only country that can mass kill innocent people based on its precedence is USA.

This is basically the age-old morality question of if you and your family was starving, would you steal bread from a store in order to survive? This takes it up a whole notch. Based on need, I would steal the bread. I need it for that moment, while the store owner has an entire store to make money or eat from. Even if it was the difference between my and my family's lives or the store owner's life, I would do anything in my power to save my family and ensure their safety. That is the answer I would expect most people to give. In essence, we are not sure what the government was threatening Samuel L and his family with or if he was just a worker, so I do not judge him because A) he may have been defending and protecting his family and B) its a *beep* part in a *beep* movie.
Secondly, everyone is judging Samuel L. for killing this guys wife because it wasn't morally right. Well guess what? Sometimes in life and war you have to much tough and difficult decisions. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices and it isn't easy. Sometimes innocent people die. But, you have to make that choice does the mean outweigh the cost. So basically, 1 (or 3 potentially) innocent life in exchange from 20 million innocent lives. Mathematics tells you that it is a simple choice, but morally, it is a tougher question. Who is to judge what a life is worth? It is a tough question, but in the end someone has to make those decisions, and I pray that none of you ever has to.

Awesome Blossom, extra awesome.
-Michael Scott

" You're just saying this because you're probably white and american, and you think they don't have the same values and love that you do. Racist. "

Anyone else see the contradiction in this? Pfft...racist.

In the context of this movie, what is stupid is that he slit her throat instead of pulling her fingernails out, dousing her with battery acid, etc. in front of the children. The point was to discover the locations of the nukes by any means necessary- H fell well short of that.

Thanks for the spoiler idiot!!

OP is probably young and naive. It doesn't mean he's a moron, so stop treating him like one.

@markotheman-1: Consider 30 million lives in the balance versus killing two children and a woman.

Consider if in 30 of those million, your entire family was dead.

Would you still feel the same way about what he did?