Death Wish 3
Charles Bronson murders everyone. Jesus Christ, how much more can you milk this idea? At least two more, I guess.
This is set in New York, a prime real estate area, but it looks like an absolute slum, a lawless location where muggers pull switchblades on old ladies in broad daylight, girls are kidnapped and raped outside malls with security cameras, there’s a lot of abandoned houses, dirt roads, and lots of land filled with trash.
Since capitalism and fascism are perfectly compatible, this is a long extended commercial for some massive pistol that fires magnum rounds. Do you feel lucky, punk? This makes fascist bingo: the people just had with with crime, somebody do something! That something is murdering people in the street, in cold blood. The middle classes are also fed up with the poors. The cops are dirty.
The last thirty minutes are insane: the girl dies in a gruesome explosion (she was riding the old-timey version of a Cybertruck), and explosions start to fill the screen.
Out of the fucking blue, suddenly the gangbangers have M16 and MAC-10, grenades and Molotov cocktails. Our “hero” strikes first with a motherfucking Browning machine gun, which of course he holds by the cooling part like a dweeb. The handle is right there!
The final showdown has the dirty cop team up with our protagonist vigilante, and they mow down every motherfucker breaking curfew. Just spraying bullets everywhere. The evil gang leader sneaks up on them, but our hero just murders him with a LAW! A freaking LAW. His charred body explodes to the street, and his followers just scram at the sight of this!
There’s more big titted girls being dragged around by gang bangers, by the third one I thought they were taking the piss.
Our protagonist has time to bang his court-appointed psychiatrist, violating just about every single legal and moral rule there is. She’s also mad at her job, defending creeps, instead of suave psychopaths like our protagonist. Gigantic red flags just absolutely ignored by the psychiatrist, she just wants sex, since she lives alone in her single bedroom apartment.
The “romance” is a box-ticking exercise, just bizarre. Our protagonist is busted and the woman sees him once in the slammer, but she’s fiery hot, since she takes a cab to the slums to bluntly ask him out, to her house! In a world where rapes are out of control! On the first date (in her own home!), she says she doesn’t know anything about him! On the second date, she doesn’t even wear a bra, an they go all the way!
Like all other films in the series, there’s some hoodlum played by a future well known actor. This time, it’s Alex Winter, from Bill and Ted! He’s just a child Warrior, knifes a couch in the opening scene, has a couple lines, then dies.
The evil gang boss has a very stupid haircut, like a landing strip of hair missing, from forehead to the back of the neck. He’s so evil, he gathers a mob to murder some rival gang member in broad daylight, they just kill him with a fire axe. One of the gang members joins the party with a plunger!
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