Hands down, the best film Charles Bronson ever made. A fantastic, entertaining revenge drama that spawned countless sequels that evolved into self-parody. Distraught over the rape/death of his lovely wife by a gang of thugs, Bronson goes on a scum-killing rampage in New York City, cleansing the streets of the vile criminals that wander them. One of my favorite action-thrillers and definitely a must-see.

η βάση για κάθε βλακώδες ρεπουμπλικάνικο υγρό όνειρο αστικής, ας-πάρουμε-τις-πόλεις-μας-πίσω εκδίκησης, μόνο που σε αυτό εδώ ο τύπος ξέρει να φιλμάρει τον εφιάλτη και την παράνοια σαν κάτι παραπάνω από πολιτικά καρτούν. ο σκελετός επιβιώνει ανέπαφος μέχρι σήμερα. κι ο μπρόνσον γαμάει

Charles Bronson killing people mercilessly, great camerawork, a young Jeff Goldblum cameo as a rapist murderer, Herbie Hancock doing the musical score...what's not to love?!

But damn, I feel sorry for Paul Kersey. Dude has the *worst* luck. He got robbed more times than the Green Bay Packers and Peyton Manning last season put together. That's a lot of robbery.

The original DEATH WISH still packs quite a punch. It’s an interesting look at what one man might become under certain circumstances and in a location that forces the issue. His character’s arc into full blown mugger murder is well done and believable. The reaction of the community and the police is equally believable. It doesn’t really dive into a moral debate about vigilantism as much as some probably would like, but for me, I like seeing punks get theirs and don’t care about their right to keep breathing.

Herbie Hancock provided the soundtrack, and it’s excellent.

Special guest rapist: Jeff Goldblum

CHARLES BRONSON MÁTALOS

Saw this in Bronson, Missouri.

Maybe I'm the only one, but I really wish Charles Bronson would have killed his son-in-law along with all of the thugs. The guy was annoying as hell, and I wanted to punch him every time he referred to Bronson as "Dad" (which was a lot). And how easy was it to get mugged in New York in the '70s? Apparently it was pretty goddamn easy. But other than that, Death Wish is a pretty awesome film.

Charles Bronson is the best 1970s guy ever. This movie is the best movie to watch at 2:00 in the morning while drinking beers with your buddies.

Ever see a movie as a kid and rave about how much it rules to your pals. Then, you watch it and everyone gets mad at you because the movie's shit. That happened to me.

Is this a sneaky indictment of U.S. foreign policy, positing WWII as the attack that took our collective innocence and Korea/Vietnam et al. as successive outgrowths of our ravening bloodlust? Or is it a quasi-fascist defense of the scale-balancing power of vigilante violence? The answer is probably somewhere in between, with Winner going the ‘choose-your-own-allegory’ route, which still makes this a repellent, manipulative movie, even with the wild-west references / the eternal hopelessness of his quest for revenge hinting at solid directions it could have taken. Troubled by this and also by the fact that I can’t figure out why Charles Bronson reminds me of Adam from Girls.

Pretty good. Very similar to a lot of movies that have come out since.

Damn, this guy gets mugged a lot.