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Death Wish 3
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police chief to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Release : | 1985 |
Rating : | 5.8 |
Studio : | The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Charles Bronson Deborah Raffin Ed Lauter Martin Balsam Gavan O'Herlihy |
Genre : | Drama Action Crime |
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Best movie ever!
A Masterpiece!
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Factually speaking Death Wish 3 is a bad movie, in fact you might even say it's a terrible movie and yet at the same time it's also a TERRIBLEY ENTERTAINING movie.More generic, B-Grade, 80's action-schlock from our good old friend's of Golan-Globus and the Cannon Films Group and for this installment, we have the almighty: Death Wish 3! In the opening moments of this tasteless classic of 80's murder and mayhem, we have Bronson being literally bused into his old hunting grounds of New York City, which is being over-ran by street gang's (ripe territory for old Charlie-Boy). With it's paper-thin plot, stodgy acting and not so clever, dumbed-down dialog (all of which are VERY common traits among movies from Cannon Film's), Death Wish 3 easily ranks as the most ridiculous of the Death Wish films; and best of all it boasts insane amounts of over-the-top, runnin' and gunnin' violence. And surprise, surprise wouldn't you know it Death Wish 3, just like all the other films of the series revolves around the tried and true motive of Revenge (you didn't actually think they were going to break from the pattern, did you?). Except this time Bronson is literally "hired" by the N.Y.P.D. to "take out the trash" and speaking of which, the cop's as depicted in this movie, are as unethical in their method's as any American police force you'll ever see and it all starts with a case of wrongful arrest.Death Wish 3 is 92 minutes of enormously entertaining schlock which is composed primarily of hyper-violent vigilante justice shoot-out's, juxtaposed with a series of other scenes such as: prison cell drama, post office drop-in's, hospital visitations, super-modest dinner parties (thrown by old couples), half-baked romances (thankfully very brief), convenience store perusals and shady meetings with crooked cops, all this somehow comes together much better then it has any right to and there's rarely a dull minute to be found - and just wait for the awesome finale! Death Wish 3 reunites the collaborative dream-team of veteran director Micheal Winner (director of the first Death Wish film) and his most-esteemed colleague Mr. Charles Bronson; and with these two calling the shots, well, there apparently was no holding them back, because they pulled out all the stops for this effort and the end-result is a genuine shoot em' up classic! Booby-trap's included! That's right, half a decade before Kevin McCalister was rigging his families stately home full of nifty G-rated booby-traps, Bronson was laying down HIS vision of what booby-traps are all about, not surprisingly most of them tend to be rather deadly. Yes this movie is just a blast, a glorious hour-and-a-half long barrage of epically unhinged urban warfare. I think any viewer who's even just half-attentive to what's going on, will readily see just how generic and simplistic the plot to this movie is, it's really nothing more than an -excuse- to get Bronson back in New York (his old killing grounds) and to get back in the groove. If the murder of his old friend "Charlie" wasn't enough reason for Charles Bronson a.k.a. Paul Kersey a.k.a. The Vigilante to start taking out the trash once again, well don't worry because he's essentially blackmailed into doing just that, by a crooked police chief (played by Ed Lauter) - but not before Chuck literally kicks the chief in the balls. Yep this movies just all kinds of fun, but unfortunately, sigh..... they also felt the need to include a half-baked "romantic angle" between old Chuck and this blonde woman reporter, who's young enough to be his (grand)daughter. Ultimately this romance of their's seems impossibly unlikely and as unconvincing as it gets and yet she's SOMEHOW hopelessly smitten with this 65 year-old pensioner. Thankfully this love affair of their's is very brief, flippant you might say and ends in fiery disaster. Now on this call, my intuition is telling me that she was ham-handedly thrown into the mix merely for the purpose of further fueling the Vigilante's wrath. It's a well-known fact, that the 80's are a veritable goldmine for bad movies and let me tell you Death Wish 3 is one hell of a golden nugget, it has just about everything covered that you possibly want in a low-budget action flick from the dubious duo of Golan-Globus (wildy prolific A-List schlockmeister's). The fact that this movie was released in 1985, places it dead-center in the 80's and you know what, absolutely everything about this kill-crazy classic looks and sounds like it was spawned from right out of that era - the 80's. For starters, you have all the distinctively bad fashions and hair-styles (love to see all those Jerry Curly's!) merging together and of course you have it's terrible soundtrack wailing away right from the opening credits, it sounds profoundly dated (did Jimmy Paige REALLY make that music....cringe). If I remember correctly, there's even some break-dancing in here somewhere - a true crime against all things decent (MUCH LIKE THE MOVIE ITSELF! LOL!!) is perpetrated by a comical character with dread-locks and wearing this tragic combination of a neon-green belly-shirt with red suspenders and gaudy graffiti-style Zubaz. Wow, hideous 80's fashion's....... When I said that it came from the 80's - well just take a discerning look at Death Wish 3, it pretty much looks like it STAYED in the 80's and it sort of serves/functions as a low-budget B-grade 1980's action movie time-portal - not entirely unlike a more violent, long-playing, episode of the A-Team. "I love it when a plan comes together" and Bronson and Winner's plan certainly DID come together. On an end note, I really do think they should have ended the series with this one, ending Death Wish on a high-note, but the world's appetite had yet to be satisfied - hence 2 more (unnecessary) sequels; but they too also have their moments, it's just that they aren't as white-hot as this one.
While Death Wish 1 and 2 were reasonable movies with charme, Death Wish 3 is totally NUTS. Logic is annihilated in this movie. There is an extreme bodycount and the whole movie is about civil war. Charles Bronson was never an actor with big emotions but in this movie.. his girlfriend gets killed one minute after he gets out the car where she is inside and then watches the car burn down in a scene that lasts for 5 seconds. Also the car rolled 20 meters and crashed in another car and both car explode instantly ???! The event never got mentioned again in the whole movie and you don't see him grief or anything like that.And the amount of bullets that don't hit people even if they stay right in front of firepower is ridiculous. And what about the motives of the extreme stupid behaviour of the gang members? Nothing gets explained why they start a civil war at all. The leader just always says "He is in my territory". Fine okay but what are the motivation for 600 (literally bodycount!) punks to follow his orders? At the end of the movie the city block felt like a setpiece out of "Escape from NY". But it's still a movie i would recommend watching with other people to laugh about. As other reviewers stated: If you watch the movie as a comedy piece it's very entertaining. I watched the first two movies before and expected something a bit more serious, maybe that's why my rating is so low.
From a cult classic to a rather good follow up to this part which is ridiculous. I have nothing against a franchise but this one here we do all know that it goes terrible wrong from part 3It's like Nightmare On Elm Street were Freddy was creepy but became funny throughout the franchise. Paul Kersey (Bronson) is back but this time his revenge becomes over the top with all ammunition you can think he do uses it. And the police asking him for help to kill the gang isn't believable at all. But part 3 did remind me of Harry Brown (2009). It's exactly the same story but believable.Gore 0/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
I saw at the movies with my friends when it came out...and I remember us thinking how ridiculous it is. It appears to have been written by a 12 year old, using some sort of formula, perhaps a 16 year old gave them.From the most ridiculous gangsters ever, to Charles Bronson inexplicably ordering rocket launchers through the mail, to the infamous gangster armed only with a plunger (??)...the movie appear to have been made with the assumption that there are enough people lobotomised, or otherwise impaired that would see this steaming pile of crap that it would make its money back, even though it is rubbish.