Review of Death Wish (2018) by Princeps32 — 03 Mar 2018

I mean it's definitely a remake of Death Wish. I went in kind of excited, but it was all a bit of a blur. Revenge movies are basically like adult cartoons, so it's weird it dragged a lot between action scenes, and I just ended up feeling kind of bad at the end despite the humor. It'd be nice if Bruce Willis could tap in to some more of his old energy, especially for something like this.

The marketing of the movie was pretty manipulative to get people riled up, and it worked, look at the review section already. This movie isn't really worth getting worked up about, it's not a particularly strong take on anything besides Man Torturing/Killing Criminals, and you've seen movies like it before.

I'd just go find Death Wish 3 and watch that if you haven't and watch Bronson kill people with a bazooka, it's a better time. For a modern take they haven't done it better than John Wick/John Wick 2 yet.