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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown

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Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson), who is no stranger to vigilante justice, is pulled back into the underworld of Los Angeles when the daughter of his new girlfriend, Karen (Kay Lenz), dies after an overdose of crack cocaine. Intent on seeing justice served, Paul goes after the kingpin who ultimately supplied the crack. As he hunts down the kingpin's minions, Paul starts taking out a large part of the city's drug-dealing population on a violent killing spree.
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Juan Carlos Coto South Florida Sun-Sentinel In this by-the-numbers revenge fantasy, Bronson delivers the expected crash-and-bang picture (perfect for popcorn munching), but except for a catchy opening and some twists near the end, Death Wish 4 has few surprises. Rated: 1.5/4 Aug 19, 2021 Full Review Kevin Carr 7M Pictures more like a overtly violent after-school special rather than a cathartic vigilante movie Rated: 3/5 Aug 22, 2012 Full Review Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily The best Death Wish movie since the first. There's more plot this time, and the bazooka finale won't be forgotten. Rated: 3/5 Oct 21, 2005 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 26, 2005 Full Review Steve Crum Kansas City Kansan Give up the revenge, too much already Rated: 2/5 Oct 23, 2004 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...a decent-enough entry within a far-from-flawless series of movies. Rated: 2.5/4 Aug 1, 2003 Full Review Read all reviews

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Daniel C. M A personal favorite of mine. Underrated as heck and just as good and the 2nd best movie in the franchise behind the first. The pacing of this movie is perfect and starts off very quick. It gives you exactly what it promises: one badass action sequence after another with little time to rest. J. Lee Thompson direction was perfect and should've sticked for Death Wish 5. Out off all the things you can say about this movie, "boring" certainly isn't one of them. The script is EXTREMELY dumb, but that is forgiven considering all the previously mentioned. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/04/24 Full Review Robson C Depois que a filha da sua namorada morre de overdose, Paul Kersey volta à sua vida de vigilante. Um velho milionário o contrata para destruir as duas gangues que controlam o tráfico de droga na cidade. Há uma certa melhora nesse filme. O roteiro apresenta antagonistas para Kersey. Há boas sequências de ação(em comparação com o filme anterior onde Kersey e os bandidos descarregavam todo o pente de balas e nenhum tiro acertava o alvo) e um plot twist. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 09/01/24 Full Review Liam D Continue the B movie style of the Cannon set of Death Wish movies. This does try at least to have an story and character depth but still is the typical formula Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/25/24 Full Review Rami A Give us a break with the revenge already. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/26/24 Full Review Jelisije J The best sequel from the Death Wish Series because the story was actually DIFFERENT. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I love Charles Bronson killing all the bad guys. Death Wish 2-4 is available on DVD for only $7.99 at Amazon. The movie is filled with non-stop excitement and Bronson killing the bad guys in some fairly creative ways. There are two plot twists with one of the detectives and a newspaper publisher, so the story isn't totally formulaic. I wish there were ten or more Death wish movies. They aren't great cinematically, but they are fun to watch. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson), who is no stranger to vigilante justice, is pulled back into the underworld of Los Angeles when the daughter of his new girlfriend, Karen (Kay Lenz), dies after an overdose of crack cocaine. Intent on seeing justice served, Paul goes after the kingpin who ultimately supplied the crack. As he hunts down the kingpin's minions, Paul starts taking out a large part of the city's drug-dealing population on a violent killing spree.
Director
J. Lee Thompson
Producer
Pancho Kohner
Screenwriter
Gail Morgan Hickman
Production Co
Cannon Films
Rating
R
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 6, 1987, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$4.7M
Runtime
1h 39m
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