michellelocke007 Review of Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)

enjoyable movie even with the same old plot lines.

[5/10 · 2 October 2010]

one can usually rely on charles bronson to give a deadpan performance as the iconic vigilante paul kersey now synonymous with the death wish series that rocketed him to stardom in the late seventies up to the eighties. since the sequels have always done well at the box office, you wonder how many more the studios were going to churn out. it's always nice to see veteran actors like bronson kicking ass and shooting them up at the ripe old age of 60+. here, bronson is dealing with drug lords and turf wars between two rival mafia gangs, all the while romancing a reporter whose covering the story. as usual, there's plenty of violence and hackneyed dialogue to carry the story along. it's just another death wish sequel which shows bronson waging a one man war against the evil-doers poisoning and corrupting the city. entertaining but it does get tiring after you've seen all the sequels.