Review of Death Wish (1974) by Rob C — 19 Nov 2011
After the murder of his wife and assault of his daughter by three muggers, a respectable architect decides to take matters into his own hands on the thugs and creeps on the streets of New York City. Death Wish was Charles Bronson's coming out film, instantly establishing him as an official "bad-ass" in the seventies and eighties.
Most of the acting is wooden and quite forced, but it's rather simple script structure of a lone man walking the streets at night looking for thugs to kill can't be overlooked. I can see how around the time of it's release, it being of much debate on it's violence, even the rape scene where we have a young Jeff Goldblum forcing a girl to perform fellatio on himself after spray painting her ass with red paint.
The film is a rather odd number, but we can't overlook the fact Death Wish being a highly influential vigilante film, spawning numerous imitators throughout the years.
This review of Death Wish (1974) was written by Rob C on 19 Nov 2011.
Death Wish has generally received positive reviews.
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