Death Wish (2018)

Eli Roth's redo of popular Seventies vigilante hit shoots a lot of blanks

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Death Wish is so misguided it's somehow less subtle than The Boondock Saints.

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Bruce Willis stars in a remake of the 1974 vigilante thriller that revives its trigger-happy politics, but now it's less about demagoguery than kicks.

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At long last, Hollywood has found a solution to Chicago’s surging murder rate. Is it a star-studded charity benefit or after-school program? Nope. Those bozos’ ingenious idea is to plop Bruce Willis in the Windy City with a handgun.

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Eli Roth's remake of "Death Wish," starring Bruce Willis as a surgeon tracking the criminals who murdered his wife and put his daughter in a coma, is either the film we need right now or the film we absolutely don't need.

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Bruce Willis steps in for Charles Bronson in Eli Roth's remake of the vigilante fantasy.

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Don't you wish. (Seriously. Don't.)

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Roth’s boringly violent do-over of the Charles Bronson vigilante franchise is too empty-headed and winking to stoke real outrage

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For a while, director Roth plays this stuff relatively straight, and Willis periodically reminds us he can act (the grieving Kersey cries a fair bit here).

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An imbecilic misfire.

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Best to just let this whole movie blow over and avoid the wait for sequels, despite the remake copying the original’s suggestive finger-pistol ending that promises more vengeance to come.

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Eli Roth’s bloodthirsty take on Michael Winner’s 1974 thriller is a banal misfire that goes too far too soon and has arrived at a particularly inopportune time in the US

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It’s difficult to think of a film more out of step with the current culture than Eli Roth’s Death Wish remake.

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