Death Wish 2 (1982)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1982
	Director: Michael Winner (Scorpio, Death Wish 1-3)
	Actors: Charles Bronson (The Magnificent 7), Jill Ireland (The Mechanic), Vincent Gardenia
	Country: USA, CDN
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 21.05.2020, Full HD, 14" computer screen
Synopsis: After his Vigilante actions in New York, Paul Kersey (Bronson) now lives in Los Angeles. Fate follows him when his house is attacked again and his daughter kidnapped.
Review: After the pleasant surprise of the first Death Wish movie, I waited a few days to watch this sequel because the first one made a strong impression on me and I feared that watching too many revenge/vigilante movies in a row would feel repetitive. Fortunately this didn't happen and I didn't have any nightmares after this one. Unfortunately, it is because the movie is pretty bad. It was released 8 years after the first one, comes from the same director but has all the characteristics of a sequel produced too late (see my discussion about that in the post about Bad Boys for Life) by a team not inspired. It is not as dark, it was lazily shot in L.A. close to Hollywood, the bad guys are not threatening but almost laughable (special mention to Laurence "Morpheus from The Matrix" Fishburne who is not so bad for one), the cinematography looks like the one of a tele-film (I had to look up to make sure it was not shot in a less wide format than the first), the music is too present and most of the time misplaced, the story totally predictable and boring and the characters as well. It gets slightly better in the second half with a more obsessed Paul Kersey behaving like I didn't expect. As I wrote, the soundtrack (by Jimmy Page, who did this one song with Puff Daddy for the 1998 Godzilla) is bad except for one theme (when Kersey is hunting) which I seem to know, likely not from the first movie but from the third. This is a bad action movie from the 80's playing on the success of the first and its main Actor. I predict that it will get better with the third movie which is the only one I knew, before it gets worse, or at least bad again.
Rating: 3 /10