Death Wish 3 (1985)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1985
	Director: Michael Winner (Death Wish 1-2, Scorpio)
	Actors: Charles Bronson (The Magnificent 7), Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter
	Country: USA, CDN
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 27.05.2020, Full HD, 14" computer screen
Synopsis: Paul Kersey (Bronson) is back to New York after losing his wife here and his daughter in Los Angeles. While visiting an old friend, he quickly dives back into the world of street punks and night Vigilantes...
Review: This movie is the whole reason why I watched the 2018 Death Wish with Bruce Willis and went on to watch the whole original series. It may be the reason for other things in my life as well, since I remember vividly seeing it several times on TV when I was young, far younger than I should have been to ingest concepts like rape, revenge, torture, bad cops, violence, etc as they are shown in 80's Action movies, especially in this one. It may indeed explain my later taste for Action and Horror films... Taken alone, Death Wish 3 is all I remembered. Straight to the point, Kersey is cleaning up the streets with the benediction of the Police, in a succession of brutal yet orchestrated executions, until the whole block burns and he gets a full revenge in a very satisfying ending. Watching it after Death Wish and Death Wish 2 makes you notice some details, and appreciate better the character's background, his mental state and his reactions. But it also makes the series repetitive, albeit for the new generation of ultra-caricatured punks, straight out of Mad Max 2. The murder at the beginning, this movie's motivation for the massacre, is too much of a coincidence, and the death of (spoiler, highlight to read) his love interest close to the end is quite useless. Just to introduce a female character in this very male movie. And in all honesty the actors are not very good and are really showing off, including Bronson. Still, I jiggled at several moments which I had forgotten but which are classics like the arrival of Kersey's friend Wildey or the final team-up with the cop. Objectively a purely exploitation not so good movie, but for me one of my first strong cinema memories, a movie I will never forget.
Rating: 6 /10