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Death Wish

2018

Eli Roth

Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone ...

5.4

5,390

Action A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act. Dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who often sees the consequences of the city's violence in the emergency room. When home intruders brutally attack his wife and young daughter, Kersey becomes obsessed with delivering vigilante justice to the perpetrators. As the anonymous slayings grab the media's attention, the public begins to ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"A movie that has its heart in the wrong place. It’s an advertisement for gun fetishism, for taking the law into your own hands... (...) A movie like this one doesn’t matter anymore"
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"Sometimes laughable and sometimes offensive (...) Cheap and dishonest (...) This generic attempt at a franchise reboot deserves to be killed."
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Dopey dialogue and vending-machine villains (...) It’s ready-made for an N.R.A. ad campaign."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Morally repugnant (...) More than just a feature-length commercial for the NRA, 'Death Wish' is such a masturbatory fantasy for modern conservatives"
		William Bibbiani IGN	"'Death Wish' takes the serious topic of vigilante violence and reduces it to melodramatic hero worship, and it’s not even particularly good at that. The action is forgettable and the plot barely holds together."
		Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"It’s the absolute wrong movie at the absolute wrong time (...) [It] should have probably stayed where it belonged. In the past."
		A.A. Dowd AV Club	"The movie’s fucked-up politics poison the fun (...) This is very much a movie that believes that more guns, not less, will make us all safe"
		Amy Nicholson The Guardian	"A banal misfire that goes too far too soon and has arrived at a particularly inopportune time in the US (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"

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