Death Wish 3 (1985)
Directed by Michael Winner
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
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What critics compared Death Wish 3 to
One of the cheapest looking $100 million movies ever made, this sequel to the 2013 sort-of-hit Olympus Has Fallen ditches the original’s “Die Hard in the White House” premise in favor of sub- Death Wish 3 sadism and Red Dawn -esque survivalism, but without the notes of camp or jingoist pulp that could make either watchable.
It’s a right-wing ’80s fantasy on the order of “Rambo III” and “Death Wish 3,” in which only a lone, politically incorrect badass with perfect aim and unlimited ammo can save us from carnage that seems like a Breitbart wet dream.
The film's final siege in the Scottish countryside feels a little traditional on paper - insert your own Home Alone/Straw Dogs/Death Wish 3 jokes here - but it's executed marvelously and beautifully rendered by Deakins' cinematography.
(Neil Jordan's The Brave One may be a much more intelligent, reasoned film than, say, Death Wish 3, but which one would you rather watch after a bad day at the office?)