I don't think so. It is true that the movies he made from the eighties on were never anywhere near as good as his films from earlier in his career, like "The Mechanic," or "Mr. Majestyk," or this one. From the eighties onward, he was pretty well typecast as a tough-guy action hero in frankly pretty schlocky B grade movies, which all of the Death Wish sequels were, as well as his other films from that period. He was a tough guy action star in his earlier films too, to be sure, but the films were better, and not all B movie quality like his films toward the end of his career. But if any movie were responsible for that, I'd put the blame on "Death Wish II" rather than this film, because it changed the fundamental nature of the series (which hadn't originally been meant to be a franchise). This movie was a grim, sobering look at out of control crime and how it could push a man over the edge -- and that also had something to suggest to viewers about what might be wrong with a society where things had been allowed to get so bad that audiences might cheer for a man who takes the law into his own hands and acts as judge, jury, and executioner. The sequels were all B grade, mindless action films where Kersey could run around in public machine-gunning gangs or blowing people up with explosives and so on. Even the non-Death Wish films Bronson made after that were films of similar quality.
But he was getting up there in years, and was probably happy enough to keep working and making money, even if his best work was years behind him.
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