Director Michael Winner, an Englishman, has created a simplistic urban Western of good guys and bad guys that will conform to every paranoid's crime fantasies.

| Nov 2, 2021

Poisonous incitement to do-it-yourself law enforcement is the vulgar exploitation hook on which Death Wish is awkwardly hung.

| Mar 1, 2007

Winner's recourse to caricature when dealing with police and thugs, and his virtually overt sympathies with the confused, violent Bronson, make for uncritical, simplistic viewing.

| Jan 26, 2006

It's a despicable movie, one that raises complex questions in order to offer bigoted, frivolous, oversimplified answers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 9, 2005

The movie has an eerie kind of fascination, even though its message is scary.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

The movie that sealed Bronson's reputation as a tough guy.

| Oct 1, 2003