*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS After watching "Death wish 5" I was really sad . How you could turn great and thought provoking original into a mindless franchise – with each next sequel more and more mindless, cheesy and empty ? By greed of course . The story of Paul Kersey didn't really needed a sequel. It was a great stand alone story. I could live with "Death wish" becoming a franchise , if it had at least some quality and ambition. This was not the case here. The sequels fall into cheap B-movie category and give a bad name to the famous original.
"Death wish 5" was obviously made for money since Bronson's career was pretty much dead at the end of the 80's . His name became associated with cheap and bad action movies made by Cannon pictures , which were full of cheese and violence. "DW 5" wasn't made by Cannon group (which bankrupted) , but unfortunately stays on the same low level as previous movies .
There are one good thing I can say about this movie . It's not so dreadfully boring as the forth one , so it's not the worst in the franchise. Also the movie makers were wise enough that Bronson is too old for action hero and came out with plausible methods how he could defeat his enemies.
This time Paul Kersey (under different alias , of course) fights not with street punks , but with mob. Well , at least one gangster . Once again his in relationship which isn't one bit believable and once again bad things will happen to those he cares for. At this point he's probably the most unlucky person in the world . I mean seriously 5 revenge movies in a row ?! Allan Goldstein is the director and writer of this one. As a writer he created a story that almost becomes a parody of itself – gangster who likes to dress up like a woman and has problems with dandruff , exploding ball, poisoned pancakes , powerful gangster who rules the fashion world (LOL) , district attorney who is surprised that mob is eavesdropping him. As a director he tries to impress the audience with violence and hardly anything more . Also the way he directs shootouts is terrible – it's hard to find more blind gangsters than here. I mean seriously – look at the ambush in Kersey's house. I didn't know that gangsters have such bad aim that very old Bronson can easily run along the whole house and they aren't able to hit him ! "DW 5" also offers some bad acting . Bronson gives another "just give me the money already" performance and it's obvious he doesn't really wants to be in this movie. The little girl was incredibly annoying , just like the growling gangster near the end of the movie . The rest of actors isn't better either.
When Bronson kills the main villain at the end and starts throwing bad one-liners you know that the franchise hit the bottom. From movie asking important questions about justice , law , good and evil to the trashiest and cheapest dumb entertainment – the "Death wish" franchise has missed completely the point of original movie.
Watch the original . Avoid the sequels . I give it 1/10.
"Death wish 5" was obviously made for money since Bronson's career was pretty much dead at the end of the 80's . His name became associated with cheap and bad action movies made by Cannon pictures , which were full of cheese and violence. "DW 5" wasn't made by Cannon group (which bankrupted) , but unfortunately stays on the same low level as previous movies .
There are one good thing I can say about this movie . It's not so dreadfully boring as the forth one , so it's not the worst in the franchise. Also the movie makers were wise enough that Bronson is too old for action hero and came out with plausible methods how he could defeat his enemies.
This time Paul Kersey (under different alias , of course) fights not with street punks , but with mob. Well , at least one gangster . Once again his in relationship which isn't one bit believable and once again bad things will happen to those he cares for. At this point he's probably the most unlucky person in the world . I mean seriously 5 revenge movies in a row ?! Allan Goldstein is the director and writer of this one. As a writer he created a story that almost becomes a parody of itself – gangster who likes to dress up like a woman and has problems with dandruff , exploding ball, poisoned pancakes , powerful gangster who rules the fashion world (LOL) , district attorney who is surprised that mob is eavesdropping him. As a director he tries to impress the audience with violence and hardly anything more . Also the way he directs shootouts is terrible – it's hard to find more blind gangsters than here. I mean seriously – look at the ambush in Kersey's house. I didn't know that gangsters have such bad aim that very old Bronson can easily run along the whole house and they aren't able to hit him ! "DW 5" also offers some bad acting . Bronson gives another "just give me the money already" performance and it's obvious he doesn't really wants to be in this movie. The little girl was incredibly annoying , just like the growling gangster near the end of the movie . The rest of actors isn't better either.
When Bronson kills the main villain at the end and starts throwing bad one-liners you know that the franchise hit the bottom. From movie asking important questions about justice , law , good and evil to the trashiest and cheapest dumb entertainment – the "Death wish" franchise has missed completely the point of original movie.
Watch the original . Avoid the sequels . I give it 1/10.