Death Wish 3

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]

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.

Movie is trashy and campy, With jokey villians and too much cussing, And the lovely Deborah Raffin needs more screentime, But Bronson brings his awesomeness, With the help of a .45 Super Hand Cannon , a WW2 Browning 60, and a rocket launcher, There's decent serviceable action scenes, And movie pushes all the right buttons regarding crime and injustice.

It seems to be one of the most popular movies ever made. It seems to be a well-known movie at that time, which depicts shootings, fights, and crimes in the context of that time. Compared to recent movies, the picture quality is poor, so I wondered how people would feel about it.

It is terrifying how accurately a cartoonish 80s action flick (with Bronson in his 60s) predicts how society would develop. There are blocks in every bigger city right now, where the police more or less has given up, and a Paul Kersey is severely needed. We need to take matters into our own hands and make our neighborhoods nice and clean again!