Death Wish - The Face Of Death | Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down

Death Wish - The Face Of Death | Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down | "Charles Bronson; A Continuation of Excellence"

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	Death Wish - The Face Of Death Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down Vidmark / Trimark, 1998 average customer review:based on 40 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Much better than DW3

This movie is so much better than the third. There is more of a plot to this one and most of the actors are much better than in the previous DW. Bronson looks great and is as wonderful as ever as Paul Kersey.

"Charles Bronson; A Continuation of Excellence"

This movie, the final effort in the series, is easily in a class with the earlier four offerings of similar title and theme, though with some significant differences. While I found the ending somewhat disappointing, due to the plot of the overall story, this is more a fault to be laid at the feet of the writers, producers, and directors, than any failing of Bronson himself, whose familiar, powerful talents remain alive and well! He's still vintage "Vigilante Bronson," at his best, with a new twist!

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deathwish 5

good film but not as good as the 1st three films but a must for charles bronson fans

Not a bad film, but still the weakest of the series

In the context of the Death Wish Series, Death Wish V: The Face of Death is definitely the weakest entry. On its own, this isn't a bad action-thriller, especially if you're a Charles Bronson fan. But it doesn't have the entertainingly squalid gang caricatures or brutality of the first two films, it doesn't have the war-like scale of the third and fourth films, and it doesn't have the tongue in cheek qualities of the third or the playful meta-level irony of the fourth. Bronson also doesn't have the same intensity or charisma here, particularly in the earlier sections of the film, although the final reels are satisfying enough.

This time around, Bronson and crew went for a fairly straightforward action-thriller film in a typical early 1990s style. The basic Death Wish plot elements are still there (see my review of Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987) for a summary), but with respect to those elements, they're a bit bare bones this time. To make things a bit different, Death Wish V is more of a mob film. The threat comes from Bronson's new significant others' ex-husband. Bronson's beau is a famous fashion designer, and her ex worked himself into her businesses to use them as a money-laundering front.

For most viewers, Death Wish V probably unfolds a bit too predictably. You know how Death Wish films tend to go, and you know how action-thrillers and mob films tend to go. There aren't many surprises on any end. Given how straightforward the film is, it may have been a mistake to not give Bronson a larger number of opponents to battle. But the army of thugs thing had been done a couple times previously, and it was probably felt that they had to do something different. When different amounts to pedestrian and formulaic, though, and you can't think of a novel angle instead, it's not a bad idea to give viewers more of the same, as contradictory as that sounds.

Still, there are one or two surprises here, the "set pieces" are all very well constructed, there are a couple pretty brutal scenes, and a few action sequences are intense.

Death Wish V should be watched with lowered expectations, but it should still be watched.

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