Pushing it would be an understatement, although Death Wish IV should have never happened to begin with and Kersey losing yet another lover, it was justified when the final product came out pretty damn good.
Death Wish V was like Rocky V, cept twice as bad, and you have to understand that twice something is a lot, that's doubling how good or bad something was, I'm not trying to exaggerate and say this was 50 times worse than Rocky V, because it wasn't.
Rocky V failed because of continuation problems and the ending, Death Wish V failed because it was Death Wish V, made 7 years after Death Wih IV, and if having a 7 year older Charles Bronson wasn't enough, absolutely nothing is added, the action is the least since Death Wish 2, and since Death Wish 3 came out you knew the sequels had to have immense action to makeup for repetitive plot.
Bronson was 73 when this film was made, so to his credit he did the best job he could with a 73 year old vigilante character, but it was really pushing it and I feel like I have to re-state that because it really was.
A 64 year old Bronson scoring the blonde hottie in Death Wish 3 who asked HIM out was a stretch to say the least, the fact that in Death Wish V he's still making love to women half his age and they keep dying is more than just beating a dead horse...the carcas of that horse has long decomposed.
Even though I give a lot to Death Wish IV for adding much needed down to earth realism to the series, Death Wish V was never suppose to happen, Bronson himself said he intended IV to be the final chapter, but no, some producer just HAD to keep it going and lucky for us the film didn't see a full theatre crowd.
Death Wish V was like Rocky V, cept twice as bad, and you have to understand that twice something is a lot, that's doubling how good or bad something was, I'm not trying to exaggerate and say this was 50 times worse than Rocky V, because it wasn't.
Rocky V failed because of continuation problems and the ending, Death Wish V failed because it was Death Wish V, made 7 years after Death Wih IV, and if having a 7 year older Charles Bronson wasn't enough, absolutely nothing is added, the action is the least since Death Wish 2, and since Death Wish 3 came out you knew the sequels had to have immense action to makeup for repetitive plot.
Bronson was 73 when this film was made, so to his credit he did the best job he could with a 73 year old vigilante character, but it was really pushing it and I feel like I have to re-state that because it really was.
A 64 year old Bronson scoring the blonde hottie in Death Wish 3 who asked HIM out was a stretch to say the least, the fact that in Death Wish V he's still making love to women half his age and they keep dying is more than just beating a dead horse...the carcas of that horse has long decomposed.
Even though I give a lot to Death Wish IV for adding much needed down to earth realism to the series, Death Wish V was never suppose to happen, Bronson himself said he intended IV to be the final chapter, but no, some producer just HAD to keep it going and lucky for us the film didn't see a full theatre crowd.