I love that the liberal Leftist critics loathe this movie. I didn't expect much but I HATE guns and expected it to be about anti-gun. It's the complete opposite. And it's still a solid...flick. Too bad it's called "Death Wish" because honestly, they didn't get ugly enough with the rape and murder of the family as they did in the original one. In fact, it's the one failure of this movie is that it doesn't get ugly with the real violence which was against his own family.
In this one..Bruce Willis plays Paul Kersey. Unbelievable as a surgeon (kept wanting him to grow a beard or at least a mustache) whose family is irreparably destroyed by a night of crime. Kick in revenge porn. He is a man who has been told that the authorities ineffective, in not so many words. So he becomes a folk hero. In fact, it actually is a brilliant way today. Social media makes Kersey into an odd folk hero. A vigilante who rights the wrong...in whatever way. The movie is exactly the nonsensical justice as told by characters as "Dirty Harry." In other words, if a drug dealer, car jacker, pimp, dirtbag is murdered, who would give a fuck?
The problem with this movie is...no one cares...at all. which it seems is what is happening in Chicago today. Murder occurs so much that the news of it becomes as banal as reading he weather report. It becomes such a point of conversation, the talk radio stations have debates. Similar to how we see psychos like school shooters today. It still didn't win me over on gun ownership, but it makes me less disgusted by the people who are convinced they are responsible firearm owners.
The movie is unapologetic in its Right Wing agenda. Sometimes even bigoted. My other gripe is that I almost wish they would blow away a piece of shit animal who pumps their music as they drive through a neighborhood. That would've made it a perfect movie. As it is, a fun diversion and does contain the spirit of the fed up society. Namely...me.
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