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Death Wish 3 (1985)
The Bronson is grumpy!
When you thought the world finally had gone politically correct...BOOOOM, Michael Winner and his crew is making a devilish massacre in which drop-out-youths isn't people, but gunprotected monsters without remorse...
Charles Bronson is starring in this revenge-based rollercoaster. With powerful weapons, crooks and a bad tempered hero like Charles, it just can't go wrong...or could it? First of all, the movie lacks credibility. Everyone is either very good or very bad, and in this type of setting we just cant get familiar with the characters...They remain unknown to us...and then they get shot. There are some very funny scenes in this movie, though. Bronson and his action-crippled face are really firing away some lead at those darn youths, and at times it can seem like a black comedy in the line of Simpsons. Zeppelin-guitarist Jimmy Page worked out the music, which I must say is a rather bizarre score. It has taken most of its elements from those goofy 70's detective-films, and it changes at times into a purely effect-based soundimage, which might result in a smile to the viewer.
I give it a 3 out of 10.
Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999)
Whats happening to your voice and face, Charlie?
As an admirer of Bronson and his work, I sat down to watch this third and probably last of the Family Cops-films. Its all where it last ended; the family Fein with their high morale and ethics, is yet again fighting crime in an almost perfect world. The crook-characters are shown as an one-dimentional piece of paper, in other terms quite psychologically unrealistic. As the story develops we begin to see what we all have feared for a long time; Charles Bronson, the action-king, the one and only actor in both political thrillers and spaghetti-western, is beginning to loose his voice, his face, and, as can be seen throughout this movie, his ability to act. He trembles as he talks, trying desperately to gain control, but yet again just sacrificing his voice to the grim destiny of age. To be honest and partially cruel, its rather amusing to watch these verbal accidents where his voice is reaching a peak, which I sincerely doubt is attended (notice the kitchen-scene, when Bronson totally unexpected yells out "Good morning" after a sentimental scene). Funny!!
But dont misunderstand me! My respect for the man and his work is beyond what I myself can understand... Damn the aging-process!!