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Plot:
While New York City architect Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is away from home, drug addicts break into his house and brutally murder his wife, Joanna (Hope Lange), and rape his daughter until she's co...( read more 
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MCT:May 14, 2008Our hero Paul Kersey (Chuck Bronson) is given a gun as a gift after his wife is killed. He literally gets sick after his 1st vigilante killing,but quickly gets over his nausea to slaughter criminals for 4 more films. Excellent 70's era action!
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MCT:April 24, 2008This movie wasn't very exciting, interesting, or action packed. It's okay if you like Bronson, but otherwise, it's not interesting. Also, the ending is disappointing.
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MCT:April 22, 2008After his wife is killed and daughter raped by mean old Jeff Goldblum, gun shy Charles Bronson takes on the vermin of New York, Punisher style (minus the crappy Thomas Jane flick). I was interested when he first showed up with a sock full of quarters but then he quickly switched a plain ordinary gun. Not as exciting as you would think.
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MCT:April 3, 2008This is a revenge movie at its finest, and a good film to show if you are an advocate of citizens' being armed. Oh yeah, it has the man in it.
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MCT:April 1, 2008When people talk about 70s revenge films, Death Wish is near the top of the list of 'must sees' from the classic era of the dish best served cold. Its not entirely undeserving of its reputation, but its not particularly brilliant either. There are two kinds of revenge film: the type that follows a cautionary moral stance, and then there are those that espouse a 'they deserved it' ethic. Death Wish is a film in the vein of the latter, and it is quite possibly one of the most right wing, pro-guns vigilante films I've seen. The film puts forth an argument that since the criminal justice system has failed in keeping urban streets safe, citizens should return to a Wild West 'ruled by the gun' mentality in dishing out justice. While I'm not entirely unsympathetic towards such views, it leads to a slippery slope of ethical dilemmas over who deserves to live and who doesn't - in essence, all the things that made Nazi Germany the evil empire it was. Charles Bronson's Paul Kersey also seems racist in his choice of killings - while a character in the film points out that there are more black muggers than white, in the final shoot out he CHOOSES to shoot the black guys first before going after the white guy. This is problematic and small-minded given it glosses over the socio-economic factors that would lead to higher crime rates in minority communities. In terms of filmmaking, its not a badly made film and Herbie Hancock's soundtrack is probably one of the best things about Death Wish. Bronson is less a good actor than a serviceable one, but with a mug like his I wouldn't want to fuck with a badass guy like Paul Kersey. In the end I wouldn't rate Death Wish quite as high as some of my favorite revenge films, but it was worth watching at least once, and it was interesting to see some early career cameos by the future Seth Brundle and Nigel Tufnel.
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str469posted 471 days ago
