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- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 30 m
- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 30 m
Summary Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Directed By: Michael Winner
Written By: Don Jakoby, Brian Garfield
- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 30 m
- 1985
- R
- Cannon Film Distributors
- 1 h 30 m
Death Wish 3
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5.1
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Summary Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Directed By: Michael Winner
Written By: Don Jakoby, Brian Garfield
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Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Mixed
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89% Negative
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8 Reviews
Metascore
Overwhelming Dislike
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
18
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
89% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
There is not a moment of credibility in the movie and the ending is sheer chaos, and anticlimactic at that. Mr. Winner runs out of imagination before Mr. Bronson runs out of ammunition. But that should not detract from its appeal. Along with the pleasure of seeing predators get their due, fans of the Death Wish series may also count on the usual vivid and noisy nature of their disposal and the imperturbability of the disposer.
Death Wish 3 is a little like granddad yelling, You kids better get out of my yard, and then following up his threat by tossing a grenade onto the patio and turning the kids into human hamburger. [01 Nov 1985]
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Based on 18 User Ratings
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Death Wish 3 may be the first movie where the director and both costars have publicly denounced elements of the film. Director Winner has said he doesn't approve of the film's philosophy of taking the law into one's own hands. Bronson has been quoted as saying the film is too violent for his taste.
The action, direction and special effects are all better than the last time around, which isn't saying much, since Death Wish II was so ineptly directed and edited that it was an insult even to audiences that were looking for a bad movie.
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’.
With the strong element of fantasy, the frenetic attempts to create an end-product, and the squandering of resources, this is nothing more than cinematic masturbation.
The direction is lackluster, and the film is padded with a number of useless scenes.
