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Death Wish Redux: Not Bad, But, So What?
by Maloogie (movies profile)
Feb 14, 2008
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49 people found this review helpful
I liked Bronson in the original series which started off in 1974 and had a zillion sequels. Considering Bronson was 54 in 1974, it got to be a geriatric miracle.
This one is no different. There is so much stolen material here, you just want to hang and see how well it got put together, instead of comparing. The Goodman Bacon face off on guns reminded me of the original Terminator, and the rest of the movie had a little of everything from Death Race 2000 to Bullit, so if you want to see how well they pulled that off, it's not a bad flick.
The thing is, when you see Bronson's beat up face, you hardly believe he is anything but a vigilante in the making. What they try to do here is take Bacon's Boy Scout good looks, and turn him into a middle aged gang banger with a dose of Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. You're supposed to be dragged from good daddy to badass and make something of that, but the plot has been done so many times, if the writers expectd us to leave the theatre wondering how the wonderful Mr. Bacon could be drawn to do those things, they missed the boat, because we have been watching good guys take out bad guys outside the system from Bullit to to Dirty Harry, and that's forty years of cliches to drag us through.
Worth a DVD buy for $8.99, but a $10 movie ticket? I'd have to be really down to my last movie before I shelled out that much for this stuff. |
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