Ploydsge just watch it!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Paul Magne Haakonsen After three swings and a miss, then surely I was more than ready to give up on the "Death Wish" franchise. But I had all five movies readily available, so I decided to stick with them and watch them.It turns out that "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" had a much better story than the previous 3. The reason for this was because the storyline dealt with the drug cartels, so it added a whole different layer and aspect to the movie.It was rather fun to see a young Danny Trejo in this movie. The doll of Trejo, during the explosion scene, was just hilariously bad.The scene where Paul Kersey (played by Charles Bronson) crashed the police car, the ramp behind the other car was so painfully visible that it was ridiculous. And I actually went back to watch that scene three times just for the sheer laughs of how bad it was.Of course Paul Kersey lost more people that he loved and cared about in this movie. Seems like he is being followed by some curse that claims everyone he becomes close to."Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" was actually the best of the four movies in the franchise thus far.

david-sarkies I'm starting to see a bit of a pattern going on with some of these films, namely that poor Paul Kersey really doesn't seem to get a break. It seems like every five years or so he manages to settle down and suddenly he finds his world once again torn apart. Then again, he's been doing this vigilante thing for quite a while now, so he has probably become quite skilled at it. Then again, he does seem to be pretty immune to bullets, or rather he happens to be a crack shot whereas everybody he comes across doesn't know the barrel of a gun from its muzzle. Then again, they are street crims (though you'd be forgiven if you thought they were storm troopers without their armour). This time his girlfriend's daughter gets caught up with some rather bad company, and takes a dose of cocaine which ends up killing her. Not surprisingly Kersey (who also goes by the name John Kimble, so I guess that happens to be his alias) decides to get back at the dealer that sold, or rather gave, her this bad batch. Well, that would be the end but he is then approached by somebody else who claims that his daughter was also killed by a bad batch and that he wants Kersey to take out all of the drug dealers in Los Angeles. So, he then sets about to put the two cartels at each other's throats, though it turns out that they aren't as stupid as it appears. All the while we have the police who are attempting to get to the bottom of this, though there is also this pressure just to let the two gangs kill each other. Well, not quite because there are a couple of officers that sort of know what is going on. However, the film doesn't pan out the way that we expected because it turns out to have a rather interesting twist at the end. Well, not quite because it is probably just another well worn trope, but it is a twist nonetheless, and these always to add a bit of extra spice to the film. I did actually find this film to be a little better than the previous one, but not by much. All in all it is just another one of those action films, and Kersey has become more and more unrealistic as time goes on. Well, he was pretty unrealistic in the previous film, but once again he has a huge stock pile of weaponry hidden away. I guess the only difference between Kersey and Batman is that Kersey doesn't dress up when he goes out and does his business, and also Batman, because he wears a mask and a cape, seems to get away with being a vigilante whereas Kersey seems to be forever dodging the cops.

sol- Once again, Charles Bronson plays architect-turned-vigilante Paul Kersey in this fourth film in the 'Death Wish' franchise. Often cited as the weakest entry in the series, 'Death Wish 4' suffers from leaden dialogue (especially when Kersey is consoling his grief-stricken girlfriend) and limited character progression. On the plus side though, the film has a fresh and original plot with a nod towards 'Yojimbo' as Kersey is hired play off rival drug cartels against one another, leading each to believing that the other is trying to sabotage their business. Kersey has some pretty nifty weapons this time too, including an incendiary device in a wine bottle, and with the experienced J. Lee Thompson at the helm, it is a slick-looking production. The opening scene is especially remarkable with clever use of fish-eye lensing and deliberately edited cutaways (in which hoodlums appear and disappear) drumming up incredible tension. There is also well edited sequence later on in which Kersey's gun-fighting gets redirected to a local ice rink, and the open ending is pitch perfect. The plot is arguably a bit too intricate for its own good with a twist in the final third that does not necessarily add a lot to the film, though it does tie in well with the idea of Kersey being used as a pawn to dirty work that could not otherwise be done (an angle sort of explored in 'Death Wish 3' with Ed Lauter's corrupt cop). This might well be a lot different to the thought-provoking original 1974 movie, but as far as sequels go, 'Death Wish 4' is very decent of its type.

Sandcooler It's probably been brought up many times before, but once more for the road: why does Paul Kersey insist on meeting new people? I understand that the guy hates being lonely, but when everyone around you keeps getting murdered you should consider a cabin in the mountains. It also doesn't help that this time around we really don't care about the victim. The surrogate daughter seemed nice I guess, but we saw her for like two minutes. When Kersey's relatives died in the first two parts, you had already gotten to know them and understood why he'd want his revenge. Here it's just meh, we never see anything that would suggest an actual bond. Charles Bronson really seems bored with the whole thing now, visibly wondering why he's still doing this stuff. And probably also why his character won't die. If you witness a mobster killing someone, he kills you. He doesn't say "hey guy I've never seen before, want to help us bury him for some bucks?". "Death Wish 3" has its stupid moments, but it thrived on them. The stupidity of this one makes you groan. That shouldn't suggest it's without its moments though. The sequence at the oilfield for instance ends with a very nice "Once Upon A Time In The West"-pastiche, there's a fairly unpredictable twist thrown in there (you figure it out just too soon) and the ending is even pretty awesome and partly redeems all the stuff that desperately requires redemption. Generally "Death Wish 4" is a pedestrian B-movie, but it's easy to sit through.