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This is a good movie - why the hate?


Yeah it had a bit of a slow start but it really got going.

I enjoyed it.

Funny thing was Bronson looked younger in this 1987 movie than he did in DW2 and 3 - 1982 and 1984.

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What hate? there is no hate for this movie

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Very good film. I would say it's the best written film of all 5 films. I still love Death Wish 3 the best. I like 4 second.

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I really liked how they departed from the usual rape stuff and street thugs, and went in a whole new direction with the drug craze of the mid 80's. and in a kinda way. kersey is the victim for a change in this one..

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http://whatculture.com/film/9-abandoned-sequel-plots-that-sound-better-than-the-movies-we-got?page=4

Nobody expected Death Wish 4: The Crackdown to be any good, and they weren’t disappointed. The fourth installment featured a creaky Charles Bronson gunning down interchangeable goons, and the plot did nothing inventive with the concept. Screenwriter Gail Morgan Hickman tried his best, though.

Hickman's initial concept had Bronson’s vigilante lonely and depressed, and he tries to reconcile with his love interest from part two – played by Bronson’s real-life wife Jill Ireland - who broke up with him when she discovered his hobby. He retires and they fall back in love; so naturally she winds up being killed in a robbery.

Bronson tracks down her killers but captures them instead of killing them. He brings them to the police, but they’re set free because nobody believes Bronson’s story. In the end, Bronson picks up a gun and does things the old fashioned way.

Hickman’s script was well liked, but Ireland didn’t want to do another violent movie after her struggle with breast cancer. The script was tossed out, leading to the boring shoot 'em up that was made.

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I wouldn't trust someone if they spoke ill of any of the Death Wish movies.

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