Review of Death Wish 3

Death Wish 3 (1985)
7/10
If this movie isn't a product of the 1980's I'm not sure what is?
2 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
It seems like every time Michael Winner was tasked with directing a Death Wish he had to one up the last one in some sort of crazy fashion. This one has Bronson once again going back to the big apple (played in England because filming in NYC is expensive). His friend he is there to visit is murdered and before you know it he's thrown right back into his old vigilante ways, except this time Bronson has a deal made with the police? All kinds of entertaining stuff follows, punks die, elderly people die, Bronson sets up some MacGyver traps, there's some more rape though not as graphic as in the last film, Bronson orders in a new hand gun that comes with some cool Dirty Harry style sound effects, and there's also another worthless love interest that bites the dust before you can blink an eye. In the end Bronson is turned into Rambo as he runs threw the streets machine gunning punks into oblivion, and killing the leader with a rocket launcher. Much of the Jimmy Page soundtrack from the last film seems to be reused here. Overall, Death Wish 3 is definitely a product of it's time a big dumb action movie that entertains from beginning to end.
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