7/10 An ultra-violent, surrealistic cartoon, Death Wish 3 is one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve ever seen. That’s also what makes it such a guilty pleasure. The third film in the adventures of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson), former bleeding-heart liberal turned gun-toting vigilante, throws away any lingering sense of realism to give us an insane action fantasy so over the top it veers into self-parody. Whether director Michael Winner or screenwriter Don Jakoby—here using the pen name of Michael Edmonds—had satirical intent or not, this is a movie that knows exactly what the audience wants and gives it to them in spades.
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Death Wish 3 (1985)
7/10 An ultra-violent, surrealistic cartoon, Death Wish 3 is one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve ever seen. That’s also what makes it such a guilty pleasure. The third film in the adventures of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson), former bleeding-heart liberal turned gun-toting vigilante, throws away any lingering sense of realism to give us an insane action fantasy so over the top it veers into self-parody. Whether director Michael Winner or screenwriter Don Jakoby—here using the pen name of Michael Edmonds—had satirical intent or not, this is a movie that knows exactly what the audience wants and gives it to them in spades.