Death Wish 3

Plot synopsis:
Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) has come back to New York City after being banned since the events of the first film to visit his Korean War buddy Charley (Francis Drake), who is attacked by a gang in his East New York apartment. The neighbors hear the commotion and call the police. Paul arrives and Charley collapses dead in his arms. The police arrest Paul for the murder. At the police station, Inspector Richard Shriker (Ed Lauter) recognizes Paul as "Mr. Vigilante". Shriker lays down the law before Paul is taken to a holding cell. In the same cell is Manny Fraker (Gavan O'Herlihy), leader of the gang who killed Charley. He and Paul fight. When he is released, Manny threatens Paul. The police receive daily reports about the increased rate of crime. Shriker offers a deal to Paul: he can kill all the punks he wants, as long as he informs Shriker of any gang activity he hears about so the police can get a bust and make news.
Paul moves into Charley's apartment in a gang-turf war zone. The building is populated by elderly tenants terrified of Manny's gang. They include Bennett Cross (Martin Balsam), a World War II veteran and Charley’s buddy; Mr. and Mrs. Kaprov, an elderly Jewish couple; and a young Hispanic couple, Rodriguez (Joseph Gonzalez) and his wife Maria (Marina Sirtis). After a few violent muggings, Paul buys a used car as bait. When two gang members try to break into the car, Paul shoots them with a Colt Cobra. Paul twice protects Maria from the gang, but is unable to save her a third time. She is assaulted and raped, later dying in hospital from her injuries.
Kersey orders a new gun, a Wildey hunting pistol. He spends the afternoon with Bennett handloading ammunition for it. He then tests the gun when The Giggler (Kirk Taylor) steals his Nikon camera. Paul is applauded by the neighborhood as Shriker and the police take the credit. Kersey also throws a gang member off a roof. Public defender Kathryn Davis (Deborah Raffin) is moving out of the city and Kersey offers to take her to dinner. While waiting in his car, Kathryn is knocked unconscious by Manny and the car is pushed into oncoming traffic. It slams into another car and explodes, killing Kathryn.
Shriker places Kersey under protective custody, fearing he is in too deep. After Bennett's taxi shop is blown up, he tries to get even but his gun jams. The gang cripples Bennett. Kersey is taken by Shriker to the hospital, where he escapes after Bennett tells him where to find a machine gun. Kersey and Rodriguez collect weapons. They proceed to mow down many of the criminals before running out of ammo. Other neighbors begin fighting back as Manny sends in reinforcements.
Shriker decides to help and he and Kersey take down much of the gang together. Kersey goes back to the apartment to collect more ammo, but Manny finds him there. Shriker arrives and shoots Manny, who falls to the floor, apparently dead. Shriker is wounded in the arm. As Kersey calls for an ambulance, Manny rises (he was wearing a bulletproof vest) and turns his gun on the two men. As Shriker distracts him, Kersey uses a mail-ordered M72 LAW rocket launcher to obliterate Manny. What remains of the gang rush to the scene and see Manny's smoldering remains. One of the other gang members attempts to retaliate, but Manny's girlfriend stops him. Surrounded by the angry crowds of neighbors, the gang realizes they've lost and flee the scene. As the neighbors cheer in celebration and with police sirens in the distance, Shriker gives Kersey a head start. Kersey gives a look of appreciation and takes off.

Tags: revenge, cult, neo noir, murder, violence

Review:
Death Wish 3 is the year of Rambo one of my all time favorite classic action films from Charles Bronson and it is really underrated.
This movie it is not for everyone it is more for action junkies like my self it is for fun and entertaining.To you, this is underrated misunderstood prototypical "good" action movie -- intense, violent gang war on a streets perfectly executed, original action, shown to the tune of a forgettable and occasionally insulting story.This movie was filmed the same year as Rambo: First Blood Part II and honestly Charles Bronson is Rambo in the urban jungle defending innocents on the street and fight evil in New York City.
Death Wish 3.1985 sequel, Paul Kersey, aka "The Vigilante", finds himself battling street punks in order to bring peace back to a once quiet New York neighborhood.
Despite the New York setting, the film was actually made in England.It's blisteringly fast paced, brutally violent, the characters from the cops to the punks to the citizens do over-the-top, unrealistically illegal things that they would all be arrested for in real life but go unnoticed in the world of the film, and the whole movie has a go-for-broke feel.I love The character development Paul Kersey is a hero in this movie helps, defends old people and week people who can't defend them self's.Kersey buys an ice cream to a kid, he shots and fights off the rapists twice in this movie.
Ed Lauter as Richard Shriker is a good cop who becomes Charles Bronson's alley.The script and the plot is alright and there is plenty action we have a lot of guns and automatic weapons and they are been used well.Paul Kersey and his neighbor Rodriguez use a Browning M1919 machine gun to kill several gang members before it runs out of ammo.
Both the Browning 1919 and MG42 belonged to Kersey's late Korean War buddy Charley, who apparently acquired the weapons during his stint in the Military.Paul Kersey's (Charles Bronson) uses Wildey Hunter with an 8" barrel in the movie (in real life, the gun was Bronson's personal pistol).I love the music score by Jimmy Page and I really love all the characters in here.10.
years ago I wrote Murphy's Law is Charles Bronson best movie but my personal favorite Charles Bronson movie will always be Death Wish 3.Michael Winner did really good job directing his third and final Death Wish movie.Paul Kersey uses a rocket launcher M72 LAW and blows Fraker in to pieces and bringing justice to the streets once again.Death Wish 3 is a 1985 American action film starring Charles Bronson as vigilante killer Paul Kersey and is the third film in the Death Wish film series.
In what other film can you see Ed Lauter take out Alex Winter in order to get Charles Bronson's back, a troubled gang leader seemingly calling a hotline to summon neo-nazi bikers to come to his aid, and nimble Broadway dancers wearing mesh halter-tops posing as street punks, all laid down to a soundtrack written by none other than Jimmy Page.
And while there is a fair amount of mayhem, DEATH WISH 3 is not that awful of an effort, particularly for fans of the series and its star.This time out, aging Charlie's Paul Kersey is let loose by a police chief desperate to clean up a rough part of New York City.
When a tenant of his apartment building sees Kersey setting up a booby trap, for instance, the vigilante lightheartedly says he's "thinning the herd." A line only Bronson can truly make work.So you see, the key to enjoying DEATH WISH 3 is to accept it for what it is.
The great Kersey (Charles Bronson), ignoring advice to lay low for a while (like ten years!), relocates his trigger finger and bad attitude to New York City.A long sequence where Kersey runs the streets shooting at everything in sight redefines this as a crazy modern Western.
Just to remind you, the movie is so bad and unintentionally funny (watching the film again, it'd make sense if the filmmakers were going for laughs) that if you haven't seen it, you need to.I'll leave you to ponder this one scene and decide for yourselves whether or not this movie is for you or not: Gang bikers come down the street.
I do so love the violence when the East New York neighborhood awakes and throws off the rule of punks.After roaming the streets of New York in the first film and going back to Los Angeles in the second, Charles Bronson as the legendary urban vigilante Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit an old friend who is found murdered.
This is by far and way the best of the Death Wish series.The directing is superb, (particularly the scene with Charles and Ed Lauter patrolling the streets shooting punks to a funky 70's soundtrack.)Winner builds up just the right amount of tension, action, humour and emotion at exactly the right moments.
He stalks the slums of L.A. and takes the law into his own hands, searching vengeance on crooks, hoodlums, muggers, making the neighborhood safer.This new outing contains suspense, noisy action-packed, gun-play and lots of violence.Bronson with his usual stoic acting displays amount of weapons arsenal such as a special Magnum, greatest than ¨Harry the Dirty¨ and a machine gun killing nasties.Furthermore, appear as secondary casting, Alex Winter(Adventures of Bill and Ted) as a heinous hoodlum and Marina Sirtis( Star Trek) as a young women submitted to a brutal rape.
So many scenes just make you go 'huh?' Not much makes sense.There are no developed scenes just constant cuts between such things as gruesome murders, gratuitous rapes, pointless violence or shots of Kersey (Bronson) building up his gigantic arsenal.These key weapon-accumulation scenes are Death Wish 3's equivalent of Rocky building up his muscles and one almost expects to hear "getting strong now" being sung in the background.
Too many examples of both to be mentioned here, but you can find many in other reviews.The absurd cast consists of: A bald and bitter cop, the main villain Manny Fraker who sports a weird and ridiculous haircut, a thief called the Giggler, and various gang members who look like extras from fame.Add to that awful 80s music, a laughable and unconvincing romance and a ludicrous final urban massacre with a stupendous body count and you have one the great unintentionally funny films ever made and is worth watching in that light.The violent 15 minute climax, in particular, with Kersey strafing the streets with his huge machine gun while his vengeful Latino sidekick feeds in the bullets in, is a joy to behold.
Of course, Death Wish 3 still basically a revenge flick featuring Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, an oddly charismatic architect turned vigilante taking out hordes of theatrical punks, but Winner expands on the previous films here, bringing in allusions to other genres and films, and giving Death Wish 3 added thematic and emotional dimensions.One of the new dimensions may have been somewhat unintentional, but it's one of my favorite modes, so it worked extremely well for me--an absurdist humor that stems from the context of all three Death Wish films as a continual story.
The Mad Max films (1979 and 1981) also seem to have been an influence, and Aliens (1986) was to expand its plot in a similar way the following year.To make the war-like scope of Death Wish 3 believable, Winner also makes the smart move of putting the head of police, Richard S.
The movie revolves around Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) and his return to New York City after ten years away from both it and his daunting past.
**SPOILERS** Paul Kersey, Charles Bronson, travels to the East New York section of Brooklyn NY to see an old army buddy of his Charly, Francis Drake, only to find him dying from a beating he got from a gang of thugs for not paying them their weekly protection money.
In the most ferocious and explosive "Death Wish" movie of them all Paul Kersey, who for some reason calls himself Paul Kimble in this film, takes on an entire army of New York street gangs in the burnt-out and devastated battleground of East New York with an arsenal that has just about everything, short of nuclear weapons.
Paul and his friends and neighbors, as well as the cops, take on the massive hoards of New York street gangs with everything from nail-boards to sticks and stones to heavy machine guns and anti-tank and armor piercing rocket launchers.The final confrontation in the movie has head gang leader Fraker at first surviving a barrage of bullets from Paul's .38 police special, by wearing a bullet-proof vest, getting pulverized into smatterings by a blast from Paul's bazooka.
The rocket launching bazooka that Paul used to pulverize the startled Faker was a WMD, weapon of mass destruction, powerful enough to take down a giant B52 bomber!Charles Bronson as the big city vigilante Paul Kersey showed again, like he did in his two previous "Death Wish" films, that when you mess with him and those dear and near to him you've opened the very gates of Hell on yourself..
its the fan favorite of the series and its not hard to see why, The First 2 Death Wish films were serious in Tone with some minor hints of black humor, But Death Wish 3 on the other hand takes the series into another Direction, they really camp it up and Turn the Action up to 11 an make it a more traditional Action Film in the style of films like RAMBO and COMMANDO, and it wasn't really surprising that the film went in this direction, as it was made in 1985 and during that time, films like COMMANDO and RAMBO were very popular, and me also being a fan of those kinds films, i found Death Wish 3 to be an Extremely Fun movie.The Plot involves Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) Returning to his original home city of New York to Visit an old Army Buddy, when he arrives at his Buddys Apartment he finds him beaten to death, The Police burst into the Apartment and arrest Kersey suspecting him as the murderer, however the police Chief (Ed Lauter) recognizes Kersey as the one man army from years before, and grants him freedom under the condition that he helps him eradicate all the gangs who terrorize the Neighbourhood where Kersey's Friend was killed.Now, the Plot of the film is very Far-fetched and the Dialogue is Cheesy and Sadly Charles Bronson Doesn't really give the best acting performance in this Installment.
However the film is entertaining thanks to Incredible Action scenes in the last half hour and a lot of funny moments, and some of the Supporting Cast is likable the Chief( Ed Lauter) and another Friend of Kersey's (Martin Balsam) give decent performances, and the Villain played by (Gavin O' Herlihy) Is truly evil in that 80s street punk leader kind of way.
However what truly impresses me is Charles Bronson's Physical Work, At 64 years old during the making of this film ,He really seems to have no problems Running Around with a giant machine gun as well as Jumping off and Climbing up Fire escapes, and another good thing is there's not as many rape scenes in this film as in the 2nd film, that doesn't mean there isn't any but they are not as Gratuitous as they were in the 2nd film, And Finnally the Score By Jimmy Page is as Cool as ever.Obviously you cannot take Death Wish 3 Seriously, its popcorn entertainment at its finest, So Sit back and Switch off your brain and you'll have a hoot with this film.OVERALL: 7/10.
Vigilante Paul Kersey (Bronson) is back on the streets once again, dispensing his own form of justice to a whole plethora of punks, robbers, rapists and murderers.WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD This time round, Kersey is blackmailed by local constitutional rights violator Richard S Shriker (Ed 'monkey' Lauter in a career best performance) into administering some after hours justice, outside of the federal court system.The action centres on a run down neighbourhood, where gang leader Manny Fraker, recently released from jail, steps up his crime-wave on the long suffering residents.
Sometimes these kinds of films work, IE, Troma movies...but watching Martin Balsam and Charles Bronson slum it up like this is painful....What's even funnier is I pulled up IMDb to see what other people said and it actually scores a 4.1/10???
Michael Winner (who directed the previous two entries) and Charles Bronson (again reprising his role as architect Paul Kersey) are the names that technically defined this type of movie, but this time out there's an ominously present apathy and indifference that bleeds through the screen and into your brain.
"Death Wish 3" plays like 5 crumpled, coffee-stained pages of script ideas somehow inflated to a feature-length film, and it shows: from the underdeveloped, unnecessary, and absurdly contrived romantic subplot to the faint supporting cast to the final reel, in which Bronson mows down a seemingly endless parade of scum (bodies are propelled backward by gunfire; stuntmen fall off roofs), it's as if everyone sighed and said "I give up!" before the cameras even started rolling.
Kersey decided to set the war with Franker and his gang.I accepted that Death Wish III was one of the most straightedge and extreme violence action film which I had seen from the past.
If you like Charles Bronson and want to see him bust up some punks and like to see great revenge films with great action then watch Death Wish!.
He definitely deserved a bigger career.So despite a star like Bronson, and a great supporting cast including O'Herlihy, Lauter, the very pretty Deborah Raffin and even Martin Balsam (who was in On The Waterfront and 12 Angry Men, remember) what makes this such a "so bad, it's good" kind of movie?
In death wish 3 the Apocalyptic gritty streets of New York City is a battleground for street creeps & psycho gangs & they are terrorising a big old tenement building in a really rough & rundown neighbourhood & no one will help these poor old folks until PAUL KERSEY (Bronson) shows up to visit a friend who has been killed by those creeps.
part 3 is ultra violent & full of fun & absolutely crazy with ridiculous dialogue & character interactions but it's still so much FUN & that's because BRONSON is such a great screen presence & is perfect in the role of paul kersey & has NEVER been more fun,So yeah ever since watching this late at night & absolutely loving the craziness of part 3 i adore it so much as i grew up on 80s Action & this is like the Schwarzenegger classic Commando it's that action packed!!!
The opening credits are barely over before Charley is murdered by gang members and Paul is arrested as the prime suspect.Death Wish 3 is one of those classics that you can watch with a group of friends and just laugh through the entire movie at all the wonderful moments it has to offer.Below are just a few things you'll learn while watching this superb piece of movie-making: 1.
Death Wish 3 (1985): Paul Kersey is back in New York City (filmed in England) to visit an old army buddy who happens to live in one of the most toughest parts of the city.
Death Wish 3 (1985) 92 minutes 18 - for graphic violence and a sexual scene Plot - Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police detective to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighbourhood's.
I think I can almost stop right there when discussing this film whichis a definitive improvement over the previous film death wish 2 which exploitative garbage at its worst this isn't a great movie either but there's a lot more depth to the story and generally serviceable performances buy the cast especially Charles Bronson who is suitably adequate as the title character Paul kersey and Ed lauther as a grumpy no-nonsense police officer who assists kersey in battling the street gang who lead by suitably terrifying maniac played by Gavan O'Herlihy as manny Faker and preposterous but fun choreographed action scenes especially the heart wrenching finale which left me on the very edge of my seat until the very end .
Charles Bronson is back as Paul Kersey and this time he's planning on cleaning up all of New York City's gangs of thugs.For me, this is where the film series spins in a different direction completely.
Instead of Paul Kersey (Bronson) just seeking revenge for the death of his wife (Death Wish) and the death of his daughter (Death Wish II) - now he's more of an action hero who is cleaning up all of New York City's gangs that have grown more violent since the first two films.
Charles Bronson/Paul Kersey is back, and this time he's taken up the gun once more to avenge his one-dimensional girlfriend who was murdered by the hands of a vicious street gang.Now that the plot's out of the way, the good: Bronson returns; the action scenes are arguably the best of the series; the villains are nasty; rape is minimal-to-non-existent; the acting is bad, but on a fun level and not a cringeworthy level; it doesn't pretend to be what it isn't.
i had already seen the first two death wish movies but liked this one out of all of them just because it's great to see someone like charles bronson who was well into his sixties at the time of the film.
Excellent acting of Bronson, one of the though guy´s in the movie world this is the best movie of the sequel of death wish, Paul Kersey is a "cool" avenger/punisher, a very good GUN ----> Caracther of Bronson if great for this kind of movies, if you like a good action film this is the one, some scenes are very comic, a fan of Bronson, don´t bother with the classification, watch it..