Death Wish (the Bruce Willia Remake)

It showed up as free on YouTube so I watched it.  In many respects it is faithful to the spirit of the original with a few minor changes that do no real harm to the story.  Walther Bite is in my experience but Glock Bite?   No.

The gun store Jolly Rogers is a somewhat stereotyped view of gun stores and how they advertise their wares.  At least the clerk behind the counter is a cute young lady not a stereotyped gun guy.

The M16 in the closing scene is utterly absurd.  It is Illinois.  I know that no gun store could do a class 3 transfer in one day.  The hired assassins with machine guns are utterly absurd for a low level scumbag to hire.

One definite gain over the Charles Bronson version is the opening home invasion is far less graphic in its portrayal of the rape, which is more implied than explicit.   While perhaps needed to give Kersey the required motivation in 1974, this version accomplishes that end in a more subtle way.

If you are way younger than me, you have no idea what a shocker Death Wish was in 1974.  The idea of an ordinary person carrying a gun for self-defense even if slightly entrapped self-defense caused the heads of all the right people to explode.  The audiences in New York City cheering it just caused more psychic pain than any liberal of the time could handle.