Review of Death Wish 3 (1985) by Scott Tobias for The A.V. Club — 13 Feb 1990
Everything abhorrent about Death Wish—its inner-city stereotyping and casual racism; its embrace of lawlessness and righteous bloodletting; Paul’s rancid transformation from naïve, bleeding-heart liberal into gun-toting angel of vengeance—gets blown up to such a grotesque degree that no sane person could mistake its world for the real one.
It’s like a paranoid right-wing small-towner’s vision of what the big city is like: a gang-infested war zone, lorded over by the cast of Breakin’.
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This review of Death Wish 3 (1985) was written by Scott Tobias and published by The A.V. Club on 13 Feb 1990.
Death Wish 3 has generally received mixed reviews.
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