Basically a remake of Death Wish but without the "philosophy." It stinks.
It follows the usual pattern of assault piled upon insult, just to get us on the murderer's side, and then keeps us there as he works his way through a gang of ill-dressed rapists and killers.
"Dirty Harry" offered no such excuse. Harry was a man of principle, doing his job, who forgot that he's working for someone else, not just himself. This cartoonish abortion avoids any such complexity. The original "Death Wish" went to great lengths to justify Kersey's slaughter and his final exile from New York City, an excuse Dirty Harry didn't have.
This piece of meretricious garbage doesn't bother with all that. The gang gang bangs Kersey's housemaid and retarded daughter and then kills them both. Kersey no longer needs to be talk into seeking out and killing the miscreants. He's already learned how to do it.
Los Angeles as a population of roughly 3,800,000 people. How is Kersey to find the grandly tattood punks in this crowd? No problem. He dresses like a bum, hangs out in louche neighborhoods, and finds them -- period.
Hollywood at its worst.
It follows the usual pattern of assault piled upon insult, just to get us on the murderer's side, and then keeps us there as he works his way through a gang of ill-dressed rapists and killers.
"Dirty Harry" offered no such excuse. Harry was a man of principle, doing his job, who forgot that he's working for someone else, not just himself. This cartoonish abortion avoids any such complexity. The original "Death Wish" went to great lengths to justify Kersey's slaughter and his final exile from New York City, an excuse Dirty Harry didn't have.
This piece of meretricious garbage doesn't bother with all that. The gang gang bangs Kersey's housemaid and retarded daughter and then kills them both. Kersey no longer needs to be talk into seeking out and killing the miscreants. He's already learned how to do it.
Los Angeles as a population of roughly 3,800,000 people. How is Kersey to find the grandly tattood punks in this crowd? No problem. He dresses like a bum, hangs out in louche neighborhoods, and finds them -- period.
Hollywood at its worst.