Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303920092 Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 6303920098 Label: Good Times Video Manufacturer: Good Times Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Good Times Video Release Date: May 15, 2001 Running Time: 88 minutes Sales Rank: 14466 Studio: Good Times Video Theatrical Release Date: February 20, 1982
Rating: - Low budget cheese...
It's a shame Charles Bronson didn't have the budget, writing, casting, and production resources that Stephen Segal, Schwartzenegger, and other great action film guys had. He was great in big budget films when he had first-rate directors and casting like "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Great Escape". But as much as I wanted to like Bronson in his own "kill the bad guys" films, they are nothing more than poor imitations of the multitude of cheap TV shows from the 1970's produced by Stephen J. Cannell. I paid the price to discover the truth about this movie. You shouldn't if you're smart...
Rating: - Consequences of Actions
I'm at a point in my life where watching movies like this kind of goes against my nature. But that said, this is probably a better movie than a lot of people would like to admit. very quickly, these movies were made at a time when people felt helpless, and people wanted a hero like the dangerous architect.
Charles Bronson never really looks for trouble, but it has a way of finding him. Many would chalk this up as of course being required for the sequel, but there is some realism to this. (The character who doesn't look for trouble, but is often found by trouble.) The movie wastes little time. Charles visits his injured daughter (from part 1) and is trying to start his life over. He runs into some thugs, but Charles flips the tables on them. Not being too bright, the thugs decide to give Charles more trouble by raping his housekeeper and kidnapping his daughter. (I say not too bright because if they ... Read More
Rating: - Crime is like a disease, Meet the cure
I would have to say that I not only like DEATH WISH 2 the best out of the whole DEATH WISH saga, this was probably my favorite Charles Bronson movie of them all that I've seen in my lifetime, plus this movie takes me all the way back to memory lane when DEATH WISH II was released in the movies back in the early Spring of 1982 when we had all those budget cuts from the recession we had back in 1981-1982 during Ronald Reagan's presidency and when I saw this movie for the first time when it came out on HBO for the first time back in June 1983 when I was 10 going on 11 years old.
Another thing I liked about DEATH WISH 2 was how Paul Kersey(Charles Bronson) had moved away from New York City to L.A. to start a new life for him and his daughter, but ends up in the same kind of fix he was in on the East Coast when some relentless crooks instigate a problem with Paul Kersey(Charles Bronson) by robbing him and ... Read More
Rating: - Dark, brutal, eerie, atmospheric.
The "Death Wish" series is an interesting grab bag of films. The original was a serious look at a potentially possible situation involving an individual taking the law into his own hands due to dissatisfaction with the legal system. DW 3, 4, and 5 were comic-book style action/thrillers with barely any connection to the original.
So "Death Wish 2" lies somewhere in between. Again, the "dark comic" feel is definitely present in this film, but there is a seriousness and believability not found in the other sequels. Here, Bronson isn't wielding chainguns and anti-tank weaponry as he would in the next film, but instead a simple .45 automatic.
"Death Wish 2"'s story is quite simple, and should already be known if you know what happened in the original film. In the first one Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) turns vigilante after his wife is beaten to death and his daughter sexually assaulted by Jeff ... Read More
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