Must be one of the few revenge movies ... Spoilers
That the group that do the raping and the murder don't get their comeuppance !
That was really surprising that they didn't !
loved it.
it would be unrealistic to find those gangbangers in NY !!
Yeah, it made it more realistic that he never found them. But he didn't even try, just shot random muggers.
sharei think the cops told him they can't really track them..
and he himself had no description on what they look like.
Yeah, and it kind of misses the whole point of the movie to expect him to go after the ones who got his family (which he did, in the sequel, but then he actually saw the crooks, and could identify them in that film). This movie was more about Paul Kersey and his response to NYC's out of control crime in general, and how that crime had made the city such a dangerous place for honest people, a place where you were taking your life in your hands to go into the parks after dark, or even the subway. It's about how, when it finally touches a man like Kersey personally, and costs him his family, that sort of societal decay can push him over the edge, and turn a formerly pacifist conscientious objector into a rage-filled, vengeance-driven killer who wants to strike back at the criminal element that has ruined his city and his life.
It resonated with audiences in 1974, as Dirty Harry had a few years earlier, because crime had gotten so bad by the seventies, that people who could remember safer times felt the criminal justice system had completely broken down and become an ineffective revolving door, that put violent criminals back out on the street as fast as overworked police could catch them, and overly liberal judges and politicians were more worried about the rights of the criminals than the victims they preyed on. So Kersey's vigilantism here is aimed at criminals as a whole, not at any particular individual crooks. And audiences in '74 cheered because Kersey was a hero venting the rage and frustration they felt at the time.
yah one of the main reasons i didn't like the new film is that we actually tracked down the thugs..........
get outta here
"...that put violent criminals back out on the street as fast as overworked police could catch them, and overly liberal judges and politicians were more worried about the rights of the criminals than the victims they preyed on."
And here we are in the early 2020s, right back there again, only worse.