Eli Roth updates Michael Winner’s gory vigilante thriller in an unwholesome celebration of American gun cultureEven Charles Bronson, with his famously expressive face, would struggle to convey the range of my emotions at the news that Bruce Willis has chosen this moment to star in a remake of Michael Winner’s gamey 1974 thriller Death Wish – with loads of rip-roaring NRA second amendment thrills about how great guns and gun stores are, and how the readily available merchandise is very important in saving the day for the good guys.Death Wish was about the regular-guy vigilante who goes around blowing holes in bad guys because a couple of punks killed his wife and raped his teenage daughter and the wussy police can do nothing.
This new version, with an adjustment to 21st-century sensibilities, changes it so the teenage daughter doesn’t get raped.
Now Paul Dursey (Willis) is an ER surgeon,
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