Review – Death Wish 2

When are these cheap street punks going to learn to stop screwing with Charles Bronson? All the man wants to do is buy some ice cream for his mentally ill daughter, and they’ve gotta go and break into his house, rape and kill his housekeeper, and kidnap his kid. Needless to say, after she dies trying to escape, that’s pretty much all she wrote for the criminals. The thing that surprised me the most about the movie is just how perfunctory our hero is about doing in the bad guys. He doesn’t linger over the killings. He doesn’t torture them, not even when torture might lead him to the next miscreant in the parade of slaughter. He just guns them down and moves on, indignities restricted to a stiffly-delivered quip or two. Frankly, his businesslike attitude takes some of the fun out of it. Mildly amusing